This week, US President Donald Trump signed three executive orders and published a 28-page ‘AI Action Plan’ intended to build out the country’s AI infrastructure, cement America’s dominance in the industry and prohibit all federal agencies from using AI contractors that don’t comply with the White House’s definition of “ideological neutrality”.
The new policies reverse several Biden-era federal AI safeguards related to DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) and climate change, block state-level regulations on AI and further relax export rules so that global companies rely more on US-built AI.
