President Donald Trump released an artificial intelligence “action plan” on Wednesday, laying out his administration’s strategy to secure U.S. dominance in the global AI race and signaling a sharp departure from the Biden-era approach.
The new plan contrasts with the Biden administration’s focus on regulating AI chip exports and curbing the spread of misinformation through AI platforms. Trump’s blueprint instead emphasizes scaling back regulations and promoting AI development both domestically and abroad.
“There is a global competition now to lead in artificial intelligence, and we want the United States to win that race,” said David Sacks, chair of the president’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, during a briefing on the report.
According to Sacks, the plan builds on Trump’s AI executive order issued during the first week of his second term by removing “unnecessary barriers” created under the previous administration.
Key components include eliminating federal regulations viewed as obstacles to innovation, expanding U.S.-based AI data infrastructure, and boosting the export of American AI products to allied nations.
Additional policy specifics are expected in one or more executive orders set to be issued Wednesday afternoon. Trump is also slated to discuss the plan during a speech at a White House event titled “Winning the AI Race,” co-hosted by David Sacks and his “All-In” podcast collaborators.
Reports from Axios and The Wall Street Journal suggest the upcoming orders will support AI chip and technology exports to U.S.-friendly countries, while potentially including a controversial provision targeting so-called “woke AI.”
According to The Wall Street Journal, the measure could bar AI developers deemed to embed “liberal bias” in their models from receiving federal contracts.
Asked about how bias would be determined, a senior White House official said: “What we’re recommending here is that federal procurement guidelines be updated to ensure that government only, the federal government only contracts with LLM developers who ensure that their systems are objective and free from top-down ideological bias. And you know, DEI is really the main one.”
The White House declined to comment further.
Legal scholars have already raised doubts about the constitutionality of the “woke AI” provision. “If you sanction software that is liberal, but not software that is conservative, the challenge will be that the executive order is content-based discrimination,” said UC San Francisco School of Law professor Rory Little.
“I don’t even know how you tell if software is liberal or conservative,” Little added, noting that the First Amendment protects intellectual property as a form of speech, which the government is restricted from punishing based on content.
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