Trump Administration Issues AI Action Plan and AI Executive Orders

The text describes how the Trump Administration released an AI Action Plan together with three executive orders on AI on July 23, 2025. The plan, whose subtitle is America's AI Action Plan, sets out goals for the federal government to carry out. The three orders cover federal permitting of data center infrastructure, a measure aimed at what it calls woke AI in federal government, and promoting overseas sales of American AI technology packages.

The 28-page plan rests on three pillars: speeding up AI innovation, building American AI infrastructure, and leading in international AI diplomacy and security. Its recommendations include seeking public input on federal rules that impede AI, revising or repealing such rules, checking whether state AI regulation interferes with FCC responsibilities, and reviewing FTC actions that may burden AI innovation. It also proposes changing the NIST AI Risk Management Framework to drop references to misinformation, diversity, equity and inclusion, and climate change, and limiting government contracts to frontier model developers whose systems are free of ideological bias. Other items cover open-weight models, sandboxes, scientific datasets and deepfake forensic standards for courts.

The data center order directs Commerce to launch financial support for qualifying projects, such as those committing at least $500 million or adding at least 100 MW of load, and eases environmental reviews and permitting. It also opens federal and military land for data centers. The second order requires agencies to buy only large language models meeting two principles, truth-seeking and ideological neutrality, with contract terms, compliance procedures and decommissioning costs charged to non-compliant providers. The third order tasks Commerce with creating, within 90 days, an American AI Exports Program that invites industry consortia to propose full-stack packages, backed by federal financing.