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The Trump administration unveiled its AI action plan on Wednesday, a set of political initiatives and recommendations intended to cement the United States as a world leader in technology that should be as influential as the Internet itself.
The White House largely seeks to achieve this high objective and favorable to Silicon Valley by reducing the regulation of AI – with a notable and friendly exception that will work to eliminate the political “bias” in AI.
The plan includes three pillars: accelerating innovation, building AI infrastructure in the United States and making American hardware and software The “standard” platform for AI innovations built in the world.
The plan also recommends that the large language models purchased by the federal government are “objective and exempt from descending ideological biases”, according to a 28 pages plan Posted by the White House on Wednesday.
This is the last pressure from the Trump administration to extend AI infrastructure and investments in the United States and serves another indication that staying ahead of China in AI is an absolute priority for administration.
“It is now a global competition to direct artificial intelligence,” said the House of the White House David Sacks on Wednesday morning at a conference call with journalists. “AI is a revolutionary technology that will have deep ramifications for the economy and for national security, it is therefore very important that America continues to be the dominant power of AI.”
The announcement came before Trump described his plans in AI at an event in Washington Wednesday evening entitled Winning the IA. The event was organized by the “Podcast All-in”, a program on business and policy co-organized by bags among other personalities in industry, and the Hill & Valley Forum, a group that organizes a technological and political conference founded by Jacob Helberg, previously commissioner for the American economic and security commission, and invests Delian Asparouhov and Christianhov and Christian Genarrett.
“Whether we like this or not, we are suddenly engaged in a rapid competition to build and define this revolutionary technology which will determine so much on the future of civilization itself,” said Trump during the event. “America is the country that has started the AI breed. And as president of the United States, I am here today to declare that America will win it. ”
Trump also expanded his desire to limit restrictions and regulations on AI development, saying that industry is “a beautiful baby who was born”.
“We have to develop this baby and let this baby thrive. We cannot stop him. We cannot stop him with politics, we cannot stop it with stupid rules,” said Trump, although he added that he does not like the name of “artificial intelligence” because “I love nothing artificial.”
The plan is to remove what administration officials have described as “bureaucratic administrative formalities” to the development of AI and is Based on the recommendations of the private sector, as well as university groups and civil society, said managers of the White House. It also calls for the rationalization of permits for data centers, semiconductor manufacturing facilities and energy infrastructure. And the government will associate itself with American technological companies to manufacture “complete AI export packages” – IA models, hardware and software – available to American Allied countries. It is in an effort to make American technology the global standard, which the leaders of Silicon Valley have called to ensure that the United States remains an AI leader.
Michael Krastios, director of the White House Science and Technology Office, said during the conference call That all the policies described in the action plan can be performed over the next six months to one year.
Legislators and technology chiefs have been divided on how AI must be regulated, highlighting the fight to balance security with speed. Shortly after taking office, Trump repealed an executive decree adopted by former president Joe Biden who sought to implement certain guarantees around the development and use of AI.
More recently, The American Senate voted on July 1 to remove a provision of the national policy of the Republicans, for example, which would have prevented the States from enforcing the laws linked to AI for 10 years. Technological leaders argued that the rules at the state level or a regulatory patchwork could slow innovation and deployment. But those who opposed the disposition feared that this hinders efforts to ensure the safety of the AI and keep responsible technological companies. However, the AI action plan recommends that the federal government “envisages a regulatory climate of the AI of a State” when examining the way of distributing federal funding for AI programs.
During the Wednesday evening event, Trump went even further, saying: “We must have a single federal standard, not 50 different states regulating this industry … You cannot have a state with standards so high that it will hold you.”
Some have criticized the Trump administration agenda to prioritize the interests of the technological industry about AI security, faced with concerns about job taking or children, among others. A coalition of privacy defenders, unions and other organizations call for a People’s action plan To counter the Trump administration’s proposals. Its signatories include the Electronic Privacy Information Center, The Writers Guild of America East and Research Institute the AI Now Institute.
A senior White House official said that more than 10,000 responses from individuals and “various” sectors were submitted in the request for information from the White House to light up the plan.
The plan recommends updating federal supply lines on supply so that the government only contracts with developers of important languages models which “guarantee that their systems are objective and exempt from descending ideological biases”. But the experts said that the application of such a rule could be difficult because it is not clear what is the definition of “bias”. This could also slow down innovation, because technological companies that seek to secure government contracts will probably have new directives to join.
“This type of thing, which creates all kinds of concerns, responsibility and complexity for people who develop these models – suddenly, they must slow down,” said Oren Etzioni, former CEO of Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a non -profit research institute based in Seattle.
Wednesday’s plan follows a series of investments and announcements related to AI and technology of private companies to date throughout Trump so far. On July 15, the president announced an investment of more than $ 90 billion from technology, energy and finance companies to transform Pennsylvania into an artificial intelligence center.
He launched his second term with an ia $ 500 billion infrastructure project called Stargate, which implies collaboration between the CEO of Openai Sam Altman, the CEO of Softbank Masayoshi Son and the president of Oracle Larry Ellison.
He also said that he would make the export restrictions of the Biden era back on the ia chips, and Nvidia was recently authorized to resume the sale of his AI H20 china fleas.
More broadly, Trump has put pressure on technology giants to extend their American operations in order to bring American manufacturing, create jobs and reduce dependence on China for technological production, although experts have been skeptical about what such efforts are successful. He praised investments by companies like Apple and TSMC as political victories, although it is possible that at least some of these plans were in place independently of Trump’s push.
The collaboration between the technological industry and the White House is not new; This happened under the Biden administration and long before. But technological CEOs were significantly present during the first six months of Trump. The technology giants and the White House met on a common goal: to stay ahead of AI’s ambitions in China. The Chinese startup Deepseek rocked the markets and the Silicon Valley earlier this year with its powerful but supposedly cheap R1 model, aroused the concern that China could be more advanced than expected.
The challenge of maintaining an advantage in AI while prioritizing security came to Capitol Hill before; Microsoft’s technological leaders, Openai, Coreweave and AMD tackled the issue during an audience of the Senate Committee in May.
“The number one factor that will define if the United States or China wins this race is the most widely adopted technology in the rest of the world,” said Microsoft vice-president and president Brad Smith during this audience.
