On July 23, 2025, the Trump administration released its AI Action Plan, aimed at ensuring U.S. global dominance in artificial intelligence, outlining 90 federal policy positions across three pillars: Accelerating Innovation, Building American AI Infrastructure, and Leading in International Diplomacy and Security. The plan calls for streamlining regulatory pathways, expanding public-private partnerships, increasing federal AI research investment, and promoting open-source AI models as potential global standards, while simultaneously encouraging export of the full “American AI Technology Stack” to allied nations as a geopolitical strategy. Three accompanying executive orders promote export of American AI technology, streamline federal data center permitting, and mandate adoption of ideologically neutral “Unbiased AI Principles” in federal procurement. The Action Plan emphasizes deregulation at the federal level and conditions federal discretionary funding on states’ AI regulatory environments, reflecting growing tension between the administration’s national AI framework and state-level regulatory efforts.
