Today, Donald Trump announced his administration's “AI Action Plan.” This is a document detailing the president's “vision of global AI domination” on page 23 and providing a roadmap for America to achieve it. A close-up shot? AI companies such as Openai and Nvidia must be allowed to move as quickly as possible. Introducing the plan, White House officials wrote: “They're the ones who are David Sachs and Marco Rubio wrote:
The action plan was a direct result of an executive order signed by Trump in the first week of the second term, directing the federal government to develop a plan to “strengthen America's global AI control.” For months, the Trump administration has sought feedback from AI businesses, civil society groups and everyday citizens. Openai, Humanity, Meta, Google, and Microsoft have issued extensive recommendations.
The White House has clearly been postponed to the private sector, which has close ties with the Trump administration. On his second day in the office, Trump, along with Openai CEO Sam Altman, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, and Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, announced the Stargate Project, a private venture aimed at building billions of dollars worth of AI infrastructure in the United States. Top-tech executives have visited the White House and Marlago many times, with Trump returning and forth with praise. Advising the president on science and technology, Kratsios previously worked on the scale of AI. White House AI and Crypto Czar Sacks were angel investors on Facebook, Palantir and SpaceX. In today's speech on the AI Action Plan, Trump praised several tech executives and investors, and praised the AI boom for “Silicon Valley's Genius and Creativity.”
Sometimes the action plan itself comes across as marketing from the tech industry. AI says it calls “the Industrial Revolution, the Information Revolution, the Renaissance, all at once.” In fact, many companies were happy. “Amazing work” is written by Openai Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil in the X of AI Action Plan. “Thanks to President Trump,” wrote Colin McKun, head of government affairs at Andreessen Horowitz at Venture Capital Farm. “We believe the White House AI Action Plan is right about infrastructure, federal adoption and safety adjustments,” Humanity wrote on its X account. “It reflects many policies aimed at the heart of humanity.”Atlantic Ocean Openai has corporate partnerships. )
In a sense, the plan of action is a gamble. AI is already changing many industries, including software engineering and many scientific disciplines. If AI ends up creating incredible prosperity and new scientific discoveries, AI action plans could potentially capture America faster by slowing down businesses simply by removing obstacles and regulations. But when technology proves to be a bubble, the Trump administration is pushing us to the bust faster, as AI products are error-prone, very expensive to build, and not proven in many business applications. In any case, the country is in the hands of Silicon Valley.
The Action Plan has three main “pillars”: strengthening AI innovation, developing more AI infrastructure, and promoting American AI. To achieve these goals, the administration aims to remove federal and state regulations on AI development, making it easier and financially viable to build data centers and energy infrastructure. Trump has also signed an executive order to promote permissions for AI projects and export AI products overseas.
The White House's concrete ideas for removing what it calls “nasty regulations” and “bureaucratic red tapes” are being wiped out. For example, the AI Action Plan recommends that the federal government review a Federal Trade Commission investigation or order from the Biden administration that “unfairly burden AI innovation.” The document also suggests that federal agencies will cut AI-related funding to states that are considered non-AI-related, regardless of AI. (For example, if there is a law that requires AI companies to participate in a wide range of third-party audits of technology, states risk losing funds.) When it comes to environmental fees that could be AI development, data center chatbots consume a huge amount of water and electricity. The roadmap suggests streamlining or reducing many environmental regulations, such as the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act standards, which require assessment of pollution from AI infrastructure, to accelerate construction.
With the red tape gone, the Trump administration wants to create a “dynamic “trial” culture” of AI across the US industry. In other words, first build and test an AI product; after that Determine if these products are actually useful or pose a risk. The plan outlines policies to encourage private and public adoption of AI in many areas: scientific discovery, healthcare, agriculture, and essentially government services. In particular, the plan emphasizes that “the US must actively employ AI within the military in order to maintain global military excellence.” Earlier this month, the Pentagon announced contracts worth up to $200 million each with Openai, Google, Anthropic and Xai.
All of this is pretty neatly aligned with the broader AI industry goals. Companies want to build more energy infrastructure and data centers, deploy AI more widely, and deploy rapid innovation. Some of Openai's recommendations for AI action plans, including “category exclusions” from environmental policies regarding the construction of AI ingratitude tracts, echo the final document into two, “sandboxes” to freely test state regulations restrictions, broad federal procurement of AI, and “sandboxes” for startups. This week, humanity also published a policy document entitled “American Buildings AI,” which includes very similar proposals to build AI infrastructure, including “red tape thrashing” and partnerships with the private sector. It allowed more investments in the energy supply, the keystone of the final plan, and was also a central demand for Google and Microsoft. Regulation and Safety Concerns AI Action Plans, while important, highlight that all dovetails are putting into the efforts AI companies are already making. There's nothing here that will make Silicon Valley terribly slow.
Trump gestured towards other concessions to the AI industry in his speech. He targets intellectual property law in particular, claiming that training AI models in copyrighted books and articles does not infringe copyright. This has been a major dispute in recent years, with over 40 related lawsuits being filed against AI companies since 2022.Atlantic Ocean For example, they are suing AI companies. ) If the court determines that training AI models with copyrighted materials is against the law, it would be a major setback for AI companies. In the official recommendations on AI Action Plans, Openai, Microsoft, and Google all requested a copyright exception known as “fair use” for AI training. Based on his statement, Trump appears to be strongly in agreement with this position, but the AI Action Plan itself does not refer to copyright and AI training.
Also, sprinkled across the entire AI action plan are gestures directed towards MAGA's priorities. In particular, the government says that the government will only contract with AI companies whose models are “free from top-down ideological bias.” This refers to Sack's crusades to “wake” AI – and says that the federal AI risk management framework needs to “eliminate” references to “misinformation, diversity, equity and inclusive change.” Trump signed a third executive order today, and in his words, he excludes “awakening, Marxist madness” from the AI model. The plan also states that the US must “prevent early elimination of critical power generation resources.”
Looking closer to the White House AI agenda is a threat to advance China's technology. The AI Action Plan, like the president's speech, repeatedly mentions the importance of staying ahead of Chinese AI companies. The concern is that advanced AI models can provide more economic, military and diplomatic control than the world. This is fear that Openai, humanity, meta, and several other AI companies have added it.
But no matter what happens at the international stage, hundreds of millions of Americans will feel the impact of more and more AI, including pay and schools, air quality and electricity costs, federal services, doctors' offices and more. AI companies are given a significant portion of their wish list. If anything, the industry is said to be not moving fast. sufficient. Silicon Valley has been given permission to accelerate and we are all together for a ride.
