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U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration unveiled the “AI Action Plan” which has three pillars — innovation, infrastructure, and international diplomacy and security.
“Breakthroughs in these fields have the potential to reshape the global balance of power, spark entirely new industries, and revolutionize the way we live and work,” said Trump in a 30-page document called ‘Winning the Race America’s AI Action Plan.’
“As our global competitors race to exploit these technologies, it is a national security imperative for the United States to achieve and maintain unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance. To secure our future, we must harness the full power of American innovation,” Trump added.
The White House said America’s AI Action Plan has three pillars: innovation, infrastructure, and international diplomacy and security. The U.S. needs to innovate faster and more comprehensively than its competitors in the development and distribution of new AI technology across every field, and dismantle unnecessary regulatory barriers that hinder the private sector in doing so, the statement added.
Key policies in the AI Action Plan
Exporting American AI: The Commerce and State Departments will partner with industry to deliver secure, full-stack AI export packages — including hardware, models, software, applications, and standards — to America’s friends and allies around the world.
Promoting Rapid Buildout of Data Centers: Policies would include expediting and modernizing permits for data centers and semiconductor fabs, and creating new national initiatives to increase high-demand occupations like electricians and HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) technicians.
In addition, policies would include removing onerous federal regulations that hinder AI development and deployment, and seek private sector input on rules to remove.
Upholding Free Speech in Frontier Models: The AI Action plan would also include updating Federal procurement guidelines to ensure that the government only contracts with frontier large language model developers who ensure that their systems are objective and free from top-down ideological bias.
“To remain the leading economic and military power, the United States must win the AI race. Recognizing this, President Trump directed us to produce this Action Plan. To win the AI race, the U.S. must lead in innovation, infrastructure, and global partnerships. At the same time, we must center American workers and avoid Orwellian uses of AI,” said AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks.
“We need to build and maintain vast AI infrastructure and the energy to power it. To do that, we will continue to reject radical climate dogma and bureaucratic red tape, as the Administration has done since Inauguration Day. Simply put, we need to “Build, Baby, Build!” said the statement signed by Michael Kratsios, assistant to the President for Science and Technology, David Sacks, and Marco Rubio, assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
Accelerate AI Innovation
The White House intends to remove red tape and onerous regulation; ensure that frontier AI protects free speech and American values; encourage open-source and open-weight AI; enable AI adoption; empower American workers in the Age of AI; support next-generation manufacturing; invest in AI-enabled science; build world-class scientific datasets; invest in AI interpretability, control, and robustness breakthroughs; build an AI evaluations ecosystem; accelerate AI adoption in government; drive adoption of AI within the Department of Defense; protect commercial and government AI Innovations; and combat Synthetic media in the legal system.
Build American AI Infrastructure
The AI Action Plan intends to create streamlined permitting for data centers, semiconductor manufacturing facilities, and energy infrastructure while guaranteeing security; develop a grid to match the pace of AI innovation; restore American semiconductor manufacturing; build high-security data centers for military and intelligence community usage; train a skilled workforce for AI infrastructure; bolster critical infrastructure cybersecurity; promote secure-by-design AI technologies and applications; and promote mature federal capacity for AI incident response.
Lead in International AI Diplomacy and Security
Under the third pillar, according to the AI Action Plan, the White House intends to export American AI to allies and partners; counter Chinese influence in international governance bodies; strengthen AI compute export control enforcement; plug loopholes in existing semiconductor manufacturing export controls; align protection measures globally: ensure that the U.S. government is at the forefront of evaluating national security risks in frontier models; and invest in biosecurity.