The US government has released its new AI Action Plan in accordance with President Trump’s January executive order, “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in AI.”

The AI Action Plan forms part of the US’s goals to usher in a new golden age of flourishing economic competitiveness and national security.

The Plan identifies over 90 Federal policy actions across three pillars – Accelerating Innovation, Building American AI Infrastructure, and Leading in International Diplomacy and Security – that the Trump Administration will take in the coming weeks and months.

It marks a further split from Biden administration policies, which favoured restrictions against exports of AI chips and steps to ensure AI was not used to spread misinformation.

Key policies in the AI Action Plan

Despite a shift away from the previous administration, the new plan comes with limitations for AI developers that build “ideological biases” into their systems, which have yet to be defined by the administration.

Central policies of the AI Action Plan include removing federal regulations that the administration believes hinder the development of AI, promoting the expansion of AI data centres, and exporting US-made AI technology around the world.

Other key policies include:

• 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.
• Enabling innovation and adoption: Removing burdensome federal regulations that hinder AI development and deployment, and seeking private sector input on rules to remove.
• Upholding free speech in frontier models: 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.

Three key executive orders for AI

The AI Action Plan includes three new executive orders signed by the President, designed to fast-track permitting approvals for building data centres, promote international exports of AI models, and require AI models used by the government to be ideologically neutral and refrain from promoting so-called “woke” principles.

Trump discussed the plan and new orders during a speech at a Wednesday event titled “Winning the AI Race”.

He said: “From now on, the US government will deal only with AI that pursues truth, fairness, and strict impartiality.

“We also have to have a single federal standard – not 50 different states regulating this industry of the future.”

Asserting US dominance in the AI sector

The US must continue to be the dominant force in artificial intelligence to promote prosperity and protect its economic and national security.

These policy goals set expectations for the Federal Government to ensure the US sets the technological gold standard worldwide, and that the world continues to run on American technology.

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios explained: “America’s AI Action Plan charts a decisive course to cement US dominance in artificial intelligence. President Trump has prioritised AI as a cornerstone of American innovation, powering a new age of American leadership in science, technology, and global influence.

“This plan galvanises Federal efforts to turbocharge our innovation capacity, build cutting-edge infrastructure, and lead globally, ensuring that American workers and families thrive in the AI era. We are moving with urgency to make this vision a reality.”