Overview

• President Trump signed three executive orders implementing 90 policy recommendations designed to remove bureaucratic barriers, rescind Biden-era directives and centralize federal AI oversight
• The plan frames AI leadership as a national security imperative against China by accelerating innovation, fast-tracking data center and semiconductor infrastructure build-out and expanding U.S. technology exports
• Federal agencies are directed to factor state AI regulatory environments into funding decisions and discourage overly restrictive state-level AI laws
• An executive order bars the government from contracting with AI models deemed ideologically biased and instructs NIST to remove references to misinformation, diversity, equity, inclusion and climate change from its risk framework
• A coalition of privacy advocates and labor unions warned that the absence of comprehensive safeguards may expose Americans to discrimination and safety risks