Trump’s AI plan: Pull back restraints on tech

  • 2025-07-24 07:20:38

The Trump administration on Wednesday unveiled its AI action plan, a package of initiatives and policy recommendations meant to cement the United States as a global leader in a technology that’s expected to be as influential as the internet itself.

The White House largely seeks to achieve that lofty, Silicon Valley-friendly goal through scaling back AI regulation — with a notable, MAGA-friendly exception that will work to eliminate political “bias” in AI.

The plan includes three pillars: accelerating innovation, building out AI infrastructure in the United States and making American hardware and software the “standard” platform for AI innovations built around the world.

The plan also recommends that large language models procured by the federal government are “objective and free from top-down ideological bias,” according to a 28-page plan published by the White House Wednesday.

It’s the Trump administration’s latest push to expand AI infrastructure and investments in the United States and serves as another indication that staying ahead of China in AI is a top priority for the administration.

“It’s a global competition now to lead in artificial intelligence,” said White House AI Czar David Sacks on a conference call with reporters Wednesday morning. “AI is a revolutionary technology that’s going to have profound ramifications for both the economy and for national security, so it is just very important that America continue to be the dominant power in AI.”

The announcement came before Trump outlined his AI plans during an event in Washington Wednesday evening called Winning the AI Race. The event was hosted by the “All-in Podcast,” a show about business and politics co-hosted by Sacks among other industry figures, and the Hill & Valley Forum, a group that hosts a tech and policy conference founded by Jacob Helberg, previously a commissioner for the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, and investors Delian Asparouhov and Christian Garrett.

“Whether we like it or not, we’re suddenly engaged in a fast-paced competition to build and define this groundbreaking technology that will determine so much about the future of civilization itself,” Trump said at the event. “America is the country that started the AI race. And as president of the United States, I’m here today to declare that America is going to win it.”

Trump also expanded on his desire to limit restrictions and regulations on AI development, saying the industry is “a beautiful baby that’s born.”

“We have to grow that baby and let that baby thrive. We can’t stop it. We can’t stop it with politics, we can’t stop it with foolish rules,” Trump said, although he added that he doesn’t like the name “artificial intelligence” because “I don’t like anything that’s artificial.”

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