Overview

• The 20-page AI Action Plan replaces Biden-era guardrails with a framework centered on infrastructure, innovation and global influence.
• Executive orders signed at the ‘Winning the AI Race’ summit fast-track federal land allocation, streamline data center permitting and expand power infrastructure for AI projects.
• It directs agencies to review and repeal regulations deemed burdensome, including excising diversity, equity and inclusion, climate change and misinformation references from AI risk frameworks and withholding federal AI funds from restrictive states.
• The plan endorses open-source and open-weight AI development while easing export restrictions to broaden U.S. technology sales abroad.
• An executive order requires federal AI contractors to ensure politically neutral outputs, targeting perceived ideological bias in ‘woke AI’ systems.