Written by: Haim Ravia, Dotan Hammer
The White House recently published “America’s AI Action Plan,” an extensive 90-point policy and strategy action plan dedicated to “winning the AI race,” framed as a national security imperative. The plan follows the recent failure to pass a 10-year moratorium on state AI legislation as part of the “Big Beautiful Bill,” and signals the Trump administration’s direction for federal AI regulation.
The plan is structured with three core pillars: accelerating AI innovation, building AI infrastructure, and leading in international AI diplomacy and security.
In accelerating innovation, the plan’s focus is on creating an industry-supportive regulatory environment. The goal is to remove “red tape and onerous regulation” at the federal level and steer AI-related federal funds to states with more lenient AI regulation. The plan also includes increasing access to high-powered computing, encouraging open-source AI models, and establishing “regulatory sandboxes” through which businesses can engage regulators.
The plan’s infrastructure section discusses reviving the U.S. semiconductor manufacturing industry, expanding the energy grid by rolling back regulations (like the Clean Air Act), and establishing high-security data centers, particularly for government and security-related uses.
In the area of diplomacy, the plan is focused on technology export and empowering America’s partners and allies, preventing rivals from gaining additional influence. The plan is explicit regarding China’s role as America’s most significant rival in this field, stating a need to counter Chinese influence on international governance bodies. Unsurprisingly, China also recently declared its intentions to lead international AI cooperation, centered in Shanghai.
The plan takes a clear pro-tech approach, prioritizing deregulation, infrastructure expansion, and private-sector leadership to accelerate AI innovation and global AI dominance. Relatedly, President Trump recently stated he doesn’t believe AI companies should be required to pay for using copyrighted works in AI training, because he believes that would stifle innovation.
Click here to read “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan”.
