https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/usa-ai-action-plan-r...
25 July 2025
Piece originally published for The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/25/trump-ai-action-plan
Donald Trump’s AI summit in Washington... was a fanfare-filled event catered to the tech elite. The president took the stage..., as the song God Bless the USA piped over the loudspeakers, and then he decreed: “America must once again be a country where innovators are rewarded with a green light, not strangled with red tape, so they can’t move, so they can’t breathe.”
The message was clear – the tech regulatory environment that was once the focus of federal lawmakers is no longer.
“I’ve been watching for many years,” Trump continued. “I’ve watched regulation. I’ve been a victim of regulation.”
As Trump spoke to the crowd, he addressed them as “the group of smart ones … the brain power”. In front of him were tech leaders, venture capitalists and billionaires, including Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang and Palantir’s chief technology officer Shyam Sankar. The Hill and Valley Forum, an influential tech industry interest group, co-hosted the confab, along with the Silicon Valley All-in Podcast, which is hosted by White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks.
Dubbed “Winning the AI Race”, the forum was an opportunity for the president to deliver what he called the “AI action plan”, which aims to loosen restrictions on the development and deployment of artificial intelligence.
The cornerstone of that plan are three executive orders that Trump said will turn the US into an “AI export powerhouse” and roll back some of the rules put in place by the Biden administration, which included guardrails around safe and secure AI development.
“Winning the AI race will demand a new spirit of patriotism and national loyalty in Silicon Valley – and long beyond Silicon Valley,” Trump said.
One executive order targets what the White House calls “woke” AI and requires any company receiving federal funding to maintain AI models free from “ideological dogmas such as DEI”. But the other two focus on deregulation, a major demand of American tech leaders who have taken an increasingly bullish stand on government oversight.
One of those promotes the export of “American AI” to other countries and the other eases environmental rules and expedites federal permitting for power-hungry data centers.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/25/trump-ai-action-plan
