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Trump unveils his plan to put AI in everything
Trump unveils his plan to put AI in everything

The Verge

time5 days ago

  • Business
  • The Verge

Trump unveils his plan to put AI in everything

Ensuring AI reflects 'objective truth,' slashing onerous regulations, disseminating US AI tools around the world, and fast-tracking AI infrastructure: this is all part of President Donald Trump's vision for AI policy. The White House unveiled its 'AI Action Plan' Wednesday ahead of a scheduled appearance by the president at an event in Washington, DC. The 28-page document lays out three pillars of US AI policy in the Trump era: accelerating AI innovation, building American AI infrastructure, and leading international diplomacy and security around AI. Trump is expected to sign a series of related executive orders this week to help implement the plan. He's slated to appear at an event Wednesday evening hosted by the Hill and Valley Forum and the All-In Podcast, which is co-hosted by tech investor-turned-White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks. Large chunks of the plan echo bipartisan rhetoric about ensuring the US maintains a leading role in the AI race and integrates the tech into its economy. But other aspects reflect the Trump administration's push to root out diversity efforts and climate initiatives, as well as a Republican-led attempt to ban states from regulating AI. The plan recommends deleting 'references to misinformation, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and climate change' in federal risk management guidance and prohibiting the federal government from contracting with large language model (LLM) developers unless they 'ensure that their systems are objective and free from top-down ideological bias' — a standard it hasn't yet clearly defined. It says the US must 'reject radical climate dogma and bureaucratic red tape' to win the AI race. The Trump administration wants to create a ''try-first' culture for AI' It also seeks to remove state and federal regulatory hurdles for AI development, including by denying states AI-related funding if their rules 'hinder the effectiveness of that funding or award,' effectively resurrecting a failed congressional AI law moratorium. The plan also suggests cutting rules that slow building data centers and semiconductor manufacturing facilities, and expanding the power grid to support 'energy-intensive industries of the future.' The Trump administration wants to create a ''try-first' culture for AI across American industry,' to encourage greater uptake of AI tools. It encourages the government itself to adopt AI tools, including doing so 'aggressively' within the Armed Forces. As AI alters workforce demands, it seeks to 'rapidly retrain and help workers thrive in an AI-driven economy.' The administration recently lifted restrictions on Nvidia from selling some of its advanced AI chips to companies in China. But the AI Action Plan suggests it's still contemplating some restrictions on selling US technology to foreign adversaries, by recommending the government 'address gaps in semiconductor manufacturing export controls.' The plan also discusses fostering science and research around AI development, investing in biosecurity as AI is used to find new cures for diseases, and creating the necessary legal framework to combat deepfakes. Implementing this plan and 'Winning the AI race' will ensure the country's security, competitiveness, and economic wellbeing, according to an intro by Sacks, the president's science and technology advisor Michael Kratsios, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. 'The opportunity that stands before us is both inspiring and humbling,' they write. 'And it is ours to seize, or to lose.' Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All by Lauren Feiner Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All AI Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Policy Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Politics Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Regulation

White House unveils AI policy vision to spur US development
White House unveils AI policy vision to spur US development

Miami Herald

time6 days ago

  • Business
  • Miami Herald

White House unveils AI policy vision to spur US development

The Trump administration called for boosting artificial intelligence development in the U.S. by loosening regulations and expanding energy supply for data centers under new guidelines that also urged withholding funds from states that put burdensome rules on the emerging technology. The so-called AI Action Plan, released by the White House on Wednesday, recommends revamping the permitting process and streamlining environmental standards to speed AI-related infrastructure projects. The blueprint also seeks to make American technology the foundation for AI worldwide while enacting security measures to keep adversaries like China from gaining an edge. "It is a national security imperative for the United States to achieve and maintain unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance," President Donald Trump said in the report. "To secure our future, we must harness the full power of American innovation." Mandated by Trump shortly after taking office in January, the 23-page plan marks the administration's most significant policy directive on a technology that promises to reshape the global economy. The president is scheduled later Wednesday to speak at an AI event hosted by the All-In Podcast and a consortium of tech leaders and lawmakers known as the Hill and Valley Forum. Trump plans to sign a handful of executive orders Wednesday to set in motion elements of his AI plan. The expected directives include a plan to use the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation and the Export-Import Bank to support global deployment of American technology. Another would call for all large language models procured by the government to be neutral and unbiased. The blueprint represents the culmination of Trump's campaign promise to position America as the world leader in AI, while dismantling what he characterized as a rules-heavy approach under President Joe Biden. Trump rescinded a 2023 order from Biden that had set extensive safety testing requirements and mandated transparency reports from major AI developers. In its place, Trump demanded a new path on AI policy and set a six-month deadline for White House AI czar David Sacks to create it. Sacks, a venture capitalist who has emerged as one of the administration's most influential voices on tech policy, was joined in shaping the new policy approach by senior AI adviser Sriram Krishnan and tech policy chief Michael Kratsios. Together, they spent months cultivating detailed input from key AI companies and other industry leaders. Regulatory rollback Under the recommendations, the federal government would ask businesses and the public about existing regulations that hinder AI adoption, with an eye toward rolling back those rules. The White House's budget office would also work with federal agencies that have oversee AI-related funding to consider putting limts on those awards "if the state's AI regulatory regimes may hinder the effectiveness of that funding." The guidelines also call on the federal government to only contract with developers whose AI models are deemed "free from top-down ideological bias" and strip references to misinformation, diversity and equity language, and climate change from risk-management frameworks. "To win the AI race, the U.S. must lead in innovation, infrastructure, and global partnerships," Sacks said in a statement. "At the same time, we must center American workers and avoid Orwellian uses of AI." The White House, signaling concern that AI could reshape the labor market, also asks the Education and Labor departments to prioritize skill development and training to assist U.S. workers. It also proposes prioritizing investment in theoretical, computational, and experimental research - a request that comes even as the administration has slashed grants to top-tier research universities. Race with China The blueprint suggests countering Chinese AI development by strengthening export controls, including by putting new location verification features in advanced AI chips. The administration also wants to establish a new effort under the Commerce Department to collaborate with the intelligence community to monitor AI developments and chip export control enforcement. The plan also envisions the Commerce Department gathering proposals from the industry on full-stack AI export packages that would allow approved allies to purchase hardware, software, models and applications together. Approved deals would be facilitated by the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, the Export-Import Bank, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, among others. The guidelines were released a little more than a week after the administration moved to ease restrictions it had imposed in April barring Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. from selling some AI chips to customers in China. The export curbs were relaxed as part of the trade understanding reached with China in June in exchange for Beijing resuming shipments of rare earths to American buyers. Sacks and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick have defended the move, saying that letting Nvidia restart shipments of its H20 chips would position the U.S. to compete more effectively abroad and blunt efforts by Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies Co. to gain a bigger slice of the global market. "These clear-cut policy goals set expectations for the Federal Government to ensure America sets the technological gold standard worldwide, and that the world continues to run on American technology," said Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a statement. Energy components Trump and other administration officials have also stressed the importance of meeting another tech industry priority: ensuring the U.S. has enough power to run energy-hungry AI data centers. In their view, adequate electricity supply is intertwined with national security, essential to keeping the U.S. ahead of global competitors in the race to dominate artificial intelligence. The plan recommends working to stabilize the existing energy grid and implementing strategies to enhance the performance of the transmission systems. The document also suggests prioritizing the interconnection of reliable, detachable power sources that could see nuclear and enhanced geothermal plants deployed to help manage a surge in demand. Copyright (C) 2025, Tribune Content Agency, LLC. Portions copyrighted by the respective providers.

White House unveils AI policy vision to spur US development
White House unveils AI policy vision to spur US development

Business Times

time6 days ago

  • Business
  • Business Times

White House unveils AI policy vision to spur US development

[WASHINGTON] The Trump administration called for boosting artificial intelligence development in the US by loosening regulations and expanding energy supply for data centres under new guidelines that also urged withholding funds from states that put burdensome rules on the emerging technology. The so-called AI Action Plan, released by the White House on Wednesday, recommends revamping the permitting process and streamlining environmental standards to speed AI-related infrastructure projects. The blueprint also seeks to make American technology the foundation for AI worldwide while enacting security measures to keep adversaries like China from gaining an edge. 'It is a national security imperative for the US to achieve and maintain unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance,' President Donald Trump said in the report. 'To secure our future, we must harness the full power of American innovation.' Mandated by Trump shortly after taking office in January, the 23-page plan marks the administration's most significant policy directive on a technology that promises to reshape the global economy. The president is scheduled later Wednesday to speak at an AI event hosted by the All-In Podcast and a consortium of tech leaders and lawmakers known as the Hill and Valley Forum. Trump plans to sign a handful of executive orders Wednesday to set in motion elements of his AI plan. The expected directives include a plan to use the US International Development Finance Corporation and the Export-Import Bank to support global deployment of American technology. Another would call for all large language models procured by the government to be neutral and unbiased. The blueprint represents the culmination of Trump's campaign promise to position America as the world leader in AI, while dismantling what he characterised as a rules-heavy approach under President Joe Biden. Trump rescinded a 2023 order from Biden that had set extensive safety testing requirements and mandated transparency reports from major AI developers. In its place, Trump demanded a new path on AI policy and set a six-month deadline for White House AI czar David Sacks to create it. BT in your inbox Start and end each day with the latest news stories and analyses delivered straight to your inbox. Sign Up Sign Up Sacks, a venture capitalist who has emerged as one of the administration's most influential voices on tech policy, was joined in shaping the new policy approach by senior AI adviser Sriram Krishnan and tech policy chief Michael Kratsios. Together, they spent months cultivating detailed input from key AI companies and other industry leaders. Regulatory rollback Under the recommendations, the federal government would ask businesses and the public about existing regulations that hinder AI adoption, with an eye towards rolling back those rules. The White House's budget office would also work with federal agencies that have oversee AI-related funding to consider putting limts on those awards 'if the state's AI regulatory regimes may hinder the effectiveness of that funding.' The guidelines also call on the federal government to only contract with developers whose AI models are deemed 'free from top-down ideological bias' and strip references to misinformation, diversity and equity language, and climate change from risk-management frameworks. 'To win the AI race, the US must lead in innovation, infrastructure, and global partnerships,' Sacks said in a statement. 'At the same time, we must centre American workers and avoid Orwellian uses of AI.' The White House, signalling concern that AI could reshape the labour market, also asks the Education and Labor departments to prioritise skill development and training to assist US workers. It also proposes prioritising investment in theoretical, computational, and experimental research – a request that comes even as the administration has slashed grants to top-tier research universities. Race with China The blueprint suggests countering Chinese AI development by strengthening export controls, including by putting new location verification features in advanced AI chips. The administration also wants to establish a new effort under the Commerce Department to collaborate with the intelligence community to monitor AI developments and chip export control enforcement. The plan also envisions the Commerce Department gathering proposals from the industry on full-stack AI export packages that would allow approved allies to purchase hardware, software, models and applications together. Approved deals would be facilitated by the US Trade and Development Agency, the Export-Import Bank, the US International Development Finance Corporation, among others. The guidelines were released a little more than a week after the administration moved to ease restrictions it had imposed in April barring Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices from selling some AI chips to customers in China. The export curbs were relaxed as part of the trade understanding reached with China in June in exchange for Beijing resuming shipments of rare earths to American buyers. Sacks and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick have defended the move, saying that letting Nvidia restart shipments of its H20 chips would position the US to compete more effectively abroad and blunt efforts by Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies to gain a bigger slice of the global market. 'These clear-cut policy goals set expectations for the Federal government to ensure America sets the technological gold standard worldwide, and that the world continues to run on American technology,' said Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a statement. Energy components Trump and other administration officials have also stressed the importance of meeting another tech industry priority: ensuring the US has enough power to run energy-hungry AI data centres. In their view, adequate electricity supply is intertwined with national security, essential to keeping the US ahead of global competitors in the race to dominate artificial intelligence. The plan recommends working to stabilise the existing energy grid and implementing strategies to enhance the performance of the transmission systems. The document also suggests prioritising the interconnection of reliable, detachable power sources that could see nuclear and enhanced geothermal plants deployed to help manage a surge in demand. BLOOMBERG

White House unveils sweeping AI action plan to boost development
White House unveils sweeping AI action plan to boost development

Business Times

time6 days ago

  • Business
  • Business Times

White House unveils sweeping AI action plan to boost development

[WASHINGTON] The Trump administration called for boosting artificial intelligence development in the US by loosening regulations and expanding energy supply for data centres under new guidelines that also urged the federal government to withhold funding from states determined to have burdensome regulations on the emerging technology. The so-called AI Action Plan, released by the White House on Wednesday (Jul 23), seeks to assert US dominance over China. The blueprint recommends revamping the permitting process and streamlining environmental standards to speed AI-related infrastructure projects. It also seeks to make American technology the foundation for AI worldwide while enacting security measures to keep foreign adversaries like China from gaining an edge. 'To win the AI race, the US must lead in innovation, infrastructure, and global partnerships,' said White House AI czar David Sacks in a statement. 'At the same time, we must centre American workers and avoid Orwellian uses of AI. This Action Plan provides a roadmap for doing that.' Mandated by President Donald Trump shortly after taking office in January, the 23-page AI Action Plan marks the administration's most significant policy directive on a technology that promises to reshape the global economy. The president is scheduled later on Wednesday to deliver remarks at an event hosted by the All-In Podcast and a consortium of tech leaders and lawmakers known as the Hill and Valley Forum. Trump plans to sign a handful of executive orders Wednesday to set in motion elements of his AI plan, among them a directive to use the US International Development Finance Corporation and the Export-Import Bank to support global deployment of American technology. Another order will call for all large language models procured by the government to be neutral and unbiased. The blueprint represents the culmination of Trump's campaign promises to position America as the global leader in artificial intelligence, while dismantling what he characterised as a rules-heavy approach to AI under President Joe Biden. BT in your inbox Start and end each day with the latest news stories and analyses delivered straight to your inbox. Sign Up Sign Up 'These clear-cut policy goals set expectations for the Federal government to ensure America sets the technological gold standard worldwide, and that the world continues to run on American technology,' said Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a statement. Within days of taking office, Trump rescinded a 2023 order from Biden that had set extensive safety testing requirements and mandated transparency reports from major AI developers. In its place, Trump demanded a new path on AI policy and set a six-month deadline for Sacks to create it. Sacks, a venture capitalist who has emerged as one of the administration's most influential voices on tech policy, was joined in shaping the new policy approach by senior AI adviser Sriram Krishnan and tech policy chief Michael Kratsios. Together, they spent months cultivating detailed input from key AI companies and other industry leaders. Energy components Trump and other administration officials have also stressed the importance of meeting another tech industry priority: ensuring the US has enough power to run energy-hungry AI data centres. In their view, adequate electricity supply is intertwined with national security, essential to keeping the US ahead of global competitors in the race to dominate artificial intelligence. The plan recommends working to stabilise the existing energy grid and implementing strategies to enhance the performance of the transmission systems. The document also suggests prioritising the interconnection of reliable, detachable power sources that could see nuclear and enhanced geothermal plants deployed to help manage a surge in demand. By 2035, data centres are projected to account for 8.6 per cent of all US electricity demand, more than double their 3.5 per cent share today, according to data from Bloomberg NEF. The Trump administration has said expanding the use of coal-fired power, along with electricity from natural gas and nuclear, is needed to help fuel the boom and has warned of future blackouts if that fails to happen. The US Energy Department has already used emergency authority to keep two power plants that were slated to close online, and has signalled additional federal intervention may be forthcoming. BLOOMBERG

From tech podcasts to policy: President Donald Trump's new AI plan leans heavily on Silicon Valley industry ideas
From tech podcasts to policy: President Donald Trump's new AI plan leans heavily on Silicon Valley industry ideas

Chicago Tribune

time6 days ago

  • Business
  • Chicago Tribune

From tech podcasts to policy: President Donald Trump's new AI plan leans heavily on Silicon Valley industry ideas

An artificial intelligence agenda that started coalescing on the podcasts of Silicon Valley billionaires is now being forged into U.S. policy as President Donald Trump leans on the ideas of the tech figures who backed his election campaign. Trump on Wednesday is planning to reveal an 'AI Action Plan' he ordered after returning to the White House in January. He gave his tech advisers six months to come up with new AI policies after revoking President Joe Biden's signature AI guardrails on his first day in office. The unveiling is co-hosted by the bipartisan Hill and Valley Forum and the All-In Podcast, a business and technology show hosted by four tech investors and entrepreneurs who include Trump's AI czar, David Sacks. The plan and related executive orders are expected to include some familiar tech lobby pitches. That includes accelerating the sale of AI technology abroad and making it easier to construct the energy-hungry data center buildings that are needed to form and run AI products, according to a person briefed on Wednesday's event who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. It might also include some of the AI culture war preoccupations of the circle of venture capitalists who endorsed Trump last year. Countering the liberal bias they see in AI chatbots such as ChatGPT or Google's Gemini has long been a rallying point for the tech industry's loudest Trump backers. Sacks, a former PayPal executive and now Trump's top AI adviser, has been criticizing 'woke AI' for more than a year, fueled by Google's February 2024 rollout of an AI image generator that, when asked to show an American Founding Father, created pictures of Black, Asian and Native American men. 'The AI's incapable of giving you accurate answers because it's been so programmed with diversity and inclusion,' Sacks said at the time. Google quickly fixed its tool, but the 'Black George Washington' moment remained a parable for the problem of AI's perceived political bias, taken up by X owner Elon Musk, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, Vice President JD Vance and Republican lawmakers. The administration's latest push against 'woke AI' comes a week after the Pentagon announced new $200 million contracts with four leading AI companies, including Google, to address 'critical national security challenges.' Also receiving one of the contracts was Musk's xAI, which has been pitched as an alternative to 'woke AI' companies. The company has faced its own challenges: Earlier this month, xAI had to scramble to remove posts made by its Grok chatbot that made antisemitic comments and praised Adolf Hitler. Trump has paired AI's need for huge amounts of electricity with his own push to tap into U.S. energy sources, including gas, coal and nuclear. 'Everything we aspire to and hope for means the demand and supply of energy in America has to go up,' said Michael Kratsios, the director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, in a video posted Tuesday. Many tech giants are already well on their way toward building new data centers in the U.S. and around the world. OpenAI announced this week that it has switched on the first phase of a massive data center complex in Abilene, Texas, part of an Oracle-backed project known as Stargate that Trump promoted earlier this year. Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and xAI also have major projects underway. The tech industry has pushed for easier permitting rules to get their computing facilities connected to power, but the AI building boom has also contributed to spiking demand for fossil fuel production that will contribute to global warming. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called on the world's major tech firms to power data centers completely with renewables by 2030. 'A typical AI data center eats up as much electricity as 100,000 homes,' Guterres said. 'By 2030, data centers could consume as much electricity as all of Japan does today.' It's long been White House policy under Republican and Democratic administrations to curtail certain technology exports to China and other adversaries on national security grounds. But much of the tech industry argued that Biden went too far at the end of his term in trying to restrict the exports of specialized AI computer chips to more than 100 other countries, including close allies. Part of the Biden administration's motivation was to stop China from acquiring coveted AI chips in third-party locations such as Southeast Asia or the Middle East, but critics said the measures would end up encouraging more countries to turn to China's fast-growing AI industry instead of the U.S. as their technology supplier. It remains to be seen how the Trump administration aims to accelerate the export of U.S.-made AI technologies while countering China's AI ambitions. California chipmakers Nvidia and AMD both announced last week that they won approval from the Trump administration to sell to China some of their advanced computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence. AMD CEO Lisa Su is among the guests planning to attend Trump's event Wednesday. There are sharp debates on how to regulate AI, even among the influential venture capitalists who have been debating it on their favorite medium: the podcast. While some Trump backers, particularly Andreessen, have advocated an 'accelerationist' approach that aims to speed up AI advancement with minimal regulation, Sacks has described himself as taking a middle road of techno-realism. 'Technology is going to happen. Trying to stop it is like ordering the tides to stop. If we don't do it, somebody else will,' Sacks said on the All-In podcast. On Tuesday, 95 groups including labor unions, parent groups, environmental justice organizations and privacy advocates signed a resolution opposing Trump's embrace of industry-driven AI policy and calling for a 'People's AI Action Plan' that would 'deliver first and foremost for the American people.' Amba Kak, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, which helped lead the effort, said the coalition expects Trump's plan to come 'straight from Big Tech's mouth.' 'Every time we say, 'What about our jobs, our air, water, our children?' they're going to say, 'But what about China?'' she said in a call with reporters Tuesday. She said Americans should reject the White House's argument that the industry is overregulated and fight to preserve 'baseline protections for the public' as AI technology advances.

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