America's AI Action Plan
In plain wordsThe Trump administration's 2025 strategy for winning a global AI race: cutting regulation, building data centers and power plants quickly, and exporting American AI technology to allies.
A US federal strategy, 'Winning the Race: America's AI Action Plan', released by the White House on July 23, 2025. Framing AI as a race with China, it grouped upward of 90 recommended federal actions under three headings. 'Accelerate AI Innovation' called for removing regulatory barriers, weighing states' AI rules when awarding federal funds, encouraging open-source and open-weight modelsopen-weight model, n.: An AI model whose trained internal numbers are published for anyone to download and run on their own computers, even if the data and code used to make it stay private., building an evaluation ecosystem around the Center for AI Standards and InnovationCenter for AI Standards and Innovation, prop. n.: The US government's AI testing and standards center, part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. It evaluates advanced AI models, American and foreign, for national-security risks and works with companies on voluntary testing., and buying only models judged free of ideological bias. 'Build American AI Infrastructure' sought faster permitting for data centersAI data center, n.: A building or campus packed with AI chips, power equipment and cooling, built to train and run AI models. The biggest use as much electricity as a city., power plants and chip fabs, grid upgrades and a skilled-trades workforce. 'Lead in International AI Diplomacy and Security' proposed exporting full-stack American AI packages to allies, tightening enforcement of export controls on AI chipsexport controls on AI chips, n.: Government rules that limit which countries and companies may buy the most advanced AI chips and the machines used to make them. The United States uses them mainly to slow China's progress in AI. (including chip location verification), countering Chinese influence in standards bodies and evaluating frontier models for national-security risks. Three executive orders signed the same day addressed 'woke AI' in federal procurement, data-center permitting and the promotion of AI exports.
The agency cited America's AI Action Plan to justify fast-tracking the data-center permit.
Origin
Ordered by Executive Order 14179 (January 23, 2025), which directed a review of Biden-era AI actions, and drafted by the Office of Science and Technology Policy under Michael Kratsios with White House AI and crypto adviser David Sacks, after a request for information that drew more than 10,000 public comments.
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Supporters praised its focus on infrastructure and adoption; critics faulted its treatment of safety, its pressure on states and its procurement test for ideological neutrality. It replaced Executive Order 14110Executive Order 14110, prop. n.: A sweeping 2023 order by US President Joe Biden that told federal agencies how to manage AI risks and required makers of the largest AI models to report their safety tests to the government. It was revoked in 2025. as the reference point for US federal AI policy.
Related
- Executive Order 14110Executive Order 14110, prop. n.: A sweeping 2023 order by US President Joe Biden that told federal agencies how to manage AI risks and required makers of the largest AI models to report their safety tests to the government. It was revoked in 2025.
- AI preemptionAI preemption, n.: The push in the United States for a single national AI law that would override the states' own AI laws, and the fight over whether that is wise or even lawful.
- Center for AI Standards and InnovationCenter for AI Standards and Innovation, prop. n.: The US government's AI testing and standards center, part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. It evaluates advanced AI models, American and foreign, for national-security risks and works with companies on voluntary testing.
- export controls on AI chipsexport controls on AI chips, n.: Government rules that limit which countries and companies may buy the most advanced AI chips and the machines used to make them. The United States uses them mainly to slow China's progress in AI.
- StargateStargate, prop. n.: A giant venture announced in 2025 by OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle to build data centers in the United States for training and running AI, with a pledged $500 billion.
- Genesis MissionGenesis Mission, prop. n.: A US government program launched in 2025 to speed up science with AI, using the national laboratories' supercomputers and data to build AI tools for research.
- woke AIwoke AI, n.: A politically charged label, used mainly by US conservatives, for AI systems seen as building progressive views into their answers. Since 2025 it also names a US rule on which AI the government may buy.
- Executive Order 14434Executive Order 14434, prop. n.: A September 2026 order by US President Donald Trump telling federal agencies to say 'super intelligence' (SI) instead of 'artificial intelligence' (AI) in official documents and communications.
- Executive Order 14110Executive Order 14110, prop. n.: A sweeping 2023 order by US President Joe Biden that told federal agencies how to manage AI risks and required makers of the largest AI models to report their safety tests to the government. It was revoked in 2025.
Sources
- The White House (2025). Winning the Race: America's AI Action Plan. July 23, 2025.
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StargateStargate, prop. n.: A giant venture announced in 2025 by OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle to build data centers in the United States for training and running AI, with a pledged $500 billion., AI preemptionAI preemption, n.: The push in the United States for a single national AI law that would override the states' own AI laws, and the fight over whether that is wise or even lawful., AI stackAI stack, n.: The layers of technology an AI product depends on, from chips and data centers at the bottom, through the models, up to the apps people use, each built on the layer below., Center for AI Standards and InnovationCenter for AI Standards and Innovation, prop. n.: The US government's AI testing and standards center, part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. It evaluates advanced AI models, American and foreign, for national-security risks and works with companies on voluntary testing., Executive Order 14110Executive Order 14110, prop. n.: A sweeping 2023 order by US President Joe Biden that told federal agencies how to manage AI risks and required makers of the largest AI models to report their safety tests to the government. It was revoked in 2025., Executive Order 14434Executive Order 14434, prop. n.: A September 2026 order by US President Donald Trump telling federal agencies to say 'super intelligence' (SI) instead of 'artificial intelligence' (AI) in official documents and communications., NIST AI Risk Management FrameworkNIST AI Risk Management Framework, prop. n.: A free, voluntary guide from the US government's standards agency that helps organizations spot, measure and reduce the risks of the AI systems they build or use., woke AIwoke AI, n.: A politically charged label, used mainly by US conservatives, for AI systems seen as building progressive views into their answers. Since 2025 it also names a US rule on which AI the government may buy., Genesis MissionGenesis Mission, prop. n.: A US government program launched in 2025 to speed up science with AI, using the national laboratories' supercomputers and data to build AI tools for research., National AI Research ResourceNational AI Research Resource, prop. n.: A US program to give university researchers, students and small companies shared access to the costly computers, data and AI models that are otherwise mostly available to big technology firms., on-chip governance mechanismson-chip governance mechanisms, n.: Features built into AI chips that could check or enforce rules about how they are used — for example, proving which country a chip is in, or refusing to run without a valid license.