Trump AI action plan targets state regulations and “ideological biases”

At the start of the year, President Trump announced his Ai Action PlanAn initiative which, according to him, would finally adopt a policy which “would improve the position of America as the power of the AI”. Now after months of consultation with industry players such as Google and OpenaiThe administration finally shared the specific actions it plans to take.

In particular, the frame seeks to limit the regulations of the state of AI companies by asking the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and other federal agencies to consider existing laws of existing AI before allocating funding linked to AI. “The federal government should not authorize federal funding linked to AI to be directed to states with heavy AI regulations that waste these funds,” said the document. As you may remember, Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” was supposed to include a qualified 10-year moratorium on state AI regulations before the amendment is finally abolished during a 99-1 vote by the US Senate.

Elsewhere, the AI action plan targets AI systems which, according to the White House, the promotion of “social engineering programs”. To this end, Trump plans to direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology, through the Commerce Department, to revise its IA risk management framework to remove all the mentions of “disinformation, diversity, equity and inclusion and climate change”. In addition, it calls for an update of federal government’s supply directives to ensure that the government only contracts model suppliers who can definitively say that their AI systems are “free from ideological biases from top to bottom”. The way companies like Openai, Google and others should do so are not clear to the document.

In addition, Trump says that he plans to delete regulatory obstacles that slow down the construction of AI data centers. “The American environmental permit system and other regulations make it almost impossible to build this infrastructure in the United States with the necessary speed,” said the document. More specifically, the president plans to make the federal land available for the construction of data centers and electricity production facilities. As part of the action plan, the federal government will also expand efforts to use AI to carry out environmental examinations.

The president plans to sign today a handful of decrees to start the wheels that turn on his action plan. Trump began his second term with cancelation President Biden’s October 2023 IA directives. Biden’s decree described a plan to establish protections for the general public with regard to artificial intelligence. More specifically, the OE has sought new standards for safety and safety in addition to the protocols for the watermark of AI and civil rights and consumer protections.