CLIENT ALERT: Key Takeaways from America's New AI Action Plan (July 2025)

Late last month, the Trump Administration released Winning the Race: America's AI Action Plan. The following offers a comprehensive summary and key considerations for those seeking to leverage AI responsibly in the days ahead.

In response to an evolving, global legal landscape surrounding artifical intelligence (AI), Winning the Race: America's AI Action Plan represents the Trump Administration's strategy for "achieving American dominance" by leveraging innovation, infrastructure, and international diplomacy and security.

Immediately, the 23-page document positions AI as a strategic imperative for U.S. global technological dominance, with President Trump having signed Executive Order 14179 to remove barriers to American AI leadership and repeal earlier orders issued by the Biden administration. The plan aims to usher in 'an industrial revolution, an information revolution, and a renaissance' through AI advancement while maintaining American preeminence. In doing so, it establishes core principles and pillars.

Core Principles:

• Prioritizing American workers in the AI revolution

• Ensuring AI systems are free from ideological bias

  
  

Interestingly, the plan's introduction establishes that, "[U.S.] AI systems must be free from ideological bias and be designed to pursue objective truth rather than social engineering agendas when users seek factual information or analysis."

• Protecting advanced technologies from misuse or theft by malicious actors

Pillar I: Accelerate AI Innovation

The first pillar focuses on removing regulatory barriers to AI development, ensuring

• Frontier AI protects free speech,

• encouraging open-source AI,

• enabling widespread AI adoption,

• supporting next-generation manufacturing, investing in AI-enabled science,

• advancing AI interpretability,

• building evaluation ecosystems,

• accelerating government AI adoption; and

• protecting AI innovations.

Pillar II: Build American AI Infrastructure

The second pillar addresses:

• streamlining approval processes for data centers and semiconductor facilities,

• developing energy infrastructure to power AI systems,

• restoring American semiconductor manufacturing,

• building secure data centers for military use, training a skilled workforce, and

• bolstering cybersecurity for critical infrastructure.

Pillar III: Lead in International AI Diplomacy and Security

The final pillar emphasizes strategies for:

• exporting American AI to allies,

• countering Chinese influence in international governance bodies,

• strengthening export control enforcement,

• aligning protection measures globally,

• evaluating national security risks in frontier models, and

• investing in biosecurity.

To effectuate the stated principles and pillars, the plan outlines key policy actions that must be taken.

Key Policy Actions

1. Removing regulatory red tape hindering AI innovation

2. Creating streamlined permitting for AI infrastructure

3. Developing grid capacity to match AI energy demands

4. Restoring domestic semiconductor manufacturing

5. Training a skilled workforce for AI infrastructure

6. Strengthening export controls on advanced AI compute

7. Countering Chinese influence in international AI governance

8. Evaluating frontier AI systems for national security risks

Conclusion

At first glance, the plan seems like a logical response to the ongoing AI-fueled technological shift. However, in the wake of leaked ethical guidance for the development of AI tools by major U.S. tech companies, like Meta, and the tendency of popular tools created by Trump's advisors, like Elon Musk's Grok, to produce offensive and inaccurate content, a plan that emphasizes the removal of red tape and streamlining permission for AI infrastrucute fails to provide the guardrails a responsible private sector requires. Stay tuned as we monitor implementation of the plan in future alerts, and highlight local and even international AI policies that address what this plan doesn’t.

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