Trump’s AI Action Plan Is Here: 5 Key Takeaways
On Wednesday, the Trump administration presented the measures it plans to take to ensure “world domination of AI” in the United States, with an AI action plan which calls for the reduction of regulations to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence tools and infrastructure to feed them.
Critics have said that the plan is a document for fossil technology and fuels companies, rules that could protect consumers, prevent pollution and fight climate change.
Although the plan itself is not binding (it includes dozens of political recommendations), Trump has signed three decrees to put some of these steps in action. The changes and proposals follow how the Trump administration addressed AI and technology in the last six months – giving technological companies a largely free hand; Focus on the beat of China; and prioritize the construction of data centers, factories and fossil power plants on environmental regulations.
He seized the moment created by the arrival of Chatgpt less than three years ago and the wave that followed generative efforts from Google, Meta and others.
“My administration will use all the tools at our disposal to ensure that the United States will be able to build and maintain the largest and most powerful and advanced IA infrastructure anywhere on the planet,” said Trump in remarks on Wednesday evening at a summit presented by the Hill and Valley forum and the All-in Podcast. He signed the three decrees during the event.
Administration and technology groups presented the plan as an American success framework in a race against China. “The Action Plan of the AI of President Trump presents a plan to inaugurate a new era of the domination of the American AI,” said Jason Oxman, president and chief executive officer of the commercial industry group ITI, in a press release.
Consumer groups have declared that the plan focuses on deregulation and would injure consumers by reducing the rules that could protect them.
“Whether it is the promotion of the use of federal land for dirty data centers, to give the orders of the FTC to question the previous cases, or to try to rekindle a version of the moratorium on the AI in all of America, said in a press release.
Here is an overview of the plan proposals.
IA infrastructure reduction regulation
The plan indicates that the growth of AI will require infrastructure, including flea factories, data centers and more energy production. And he blames environmental regulations for having embarrassed. In response, it offers exemptions for construction linked to AI of certain environmental regulations, including those aimed at protecting clean water and air. He also suggests making federal land available for the construction of the data center and related electric power plants.
To provide energy to all these data centers, the plan provides for steps to prevent “premature downgrading of critical electricity production resources”. This probably refers to the maintenance of coal power plants and other infrastructures mainly focused on fossil fuels online longer. In his remarks, Trump specifically praised his support for coal and nuclear power plants.
The administration also called to prioritize the connection of new “reliable repairable repairable energy sources” to the network and specifically named nuclear fission and the merger and the geothermal generation advanced. Earlier this month, the president signed a bill which would end many tax credits and incentives for renewable energies – wind and solar – years earlier than expected. Wind and solar. Most of the new energy production added to the American network at the moment.
“This American Action Plan of AI does not only open the door to Big Tech and Big Oil to team up, it disturbs and removes all doors – it opens the valves, continuing to insert the rights of our communities to protect us,” said KD CHAVEZ, Executive Director of Climate Justiance, in a press release. “With the history of tech and oils on human rights and their role in the climate crisis, and what they are already doing now to force the domination of AI, we need more monitoring of businesses and the environment, no less.”
Less rules concerning AI technology
The congress ended up not including a moratorium on the rules of the AI of the State in the bill on tax and the expenses recently adopted, but the efforts to reduce the regulations concerning the AI continue in the executive power of the action plan. “The AI is far too important to stifle in bureaucracy at this early stage, whether at the level of the state or the federal,” said the plan.
The plan recommends that several federal agencies examine whether the existing or proposed rules interfere with the development and deployment of AI. The federal authorities would examine whether the regulatory climate of states is favorable to AI when it decides to allocate funding. The investigations and orders of the Federal Trade Commission would be examined to determine that they “do not advance the theories of responsibility which unduly grant the innovation of the AI”.
These rules could undermine efforts to protect consumers from AI problems, criticism said. “Companies – including IA companies – have the legal obligation to protect their products from damage,” said Justin Brookman, director of technological policy at Consumer Reports, in a press release. “When a company makes design choices that increase the risk, their product will be used for damage, or when the risks are particularly serious, companies should assume legal responsibility.”
Ideology and models of large languages
The plan proposes certain stages to ensure that AI “protects freedom of expression and American values”, additional steps in the efforts of the Trump administration to find federal policies around what it calls “diversity, equity and inclusion”, as well as references to problems of disinformation and climate change. He calls to eliminate references to these elements from the National Institute of Standards and Technology IA Risk Management framework. Federal agencies would only be authorized to contract AI developers who “ensure that their systems are objective and exempt from ideological biases from top to bottom”.
The Trump administration recently announced contracts up to $ 200 million each to the developers Anthropic, Google, Openai and Xai. Grok, the model of Elon Musk, of Elon Musk, was recently criticized for having thrown a jet of anti -Semitism and hate speeches.
Facing the challenges of the workforce
The plan recognizes that AI “will transform the way in which work is done in all industries and professions, requiring a serious workforce to help workers navigate in this transition” and recommends actions of federal agencies, including the Ministry of Labor intended to mitigate the misdeeds of the displacement of JEs focused on AI. The plan provides for the work statistics office, the census office and the economic analysis office to monitor how AI affects the labor market using data already collected. A research center on AI labor within the framework of the Ministry of Labor would direct surveillance and make political recommendations.
Most real plans to help workers moved by AI involve the recycling of these workers for other jobs or to help states do the same.
Other recommendations related to jobs aim to stimulate the types of jobs necessary for all these data manufacturing data and manufacturing factories – such as electricians and CVC technicians.
These plans and others to encourage literacy of AI and the use of AI in education have praised Software & Information Industry Association, a technology industry group. “These are key elements to strengthen confidence and ensure that all communities can participate and benefit from the potential of AI,” said Paul Lekas, Senial Vice-President of SIIA global public policy.
More interruption in government
The plan envisages more use of AI by the federal government. A talent exchange program would allow employees with experience or AI talents to be detailed to other agencies in need. The General Services Administration would create an AI model toolbox which would help agencies to see the models to choose and use cases in other parts of the government.
Each government agency would also be required to ensure that employees who could use AI in their work have access to and training for AI tools.
Many recommendations focus specifically on the Ministry of Defense, including the creation of a virtual test field for AI and autonomous systems. AI companies have already signed contracts with DOD to develop AI tools for the army.
