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Fact Sheet: President
Donald J. Trump
Takes Action to
Enhance America’s
AI Leadership
January 23, 2025
REMOVING
BARRIERS TO AMERICAN AI INNOVATION: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an
Executive Order eliminating harmful Biden Administration AI policies and
enhancing America’s global AI dominance.
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President
Trump is fulfilling his promise to revoke Joe Biden’s dangerous Executive Order
that hinders AI innovation and imposes onerous and unnecessary government
control over the development of AI.
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The
Biden AI Executive Order established unnecessarily burdensome requirements for
companies developing and deploying AI that would stifle private sector
innovation and threaten American technological leadership.
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Today’s
executive order:
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Revokes
the Biden AI Executive Order which hampered the private sector’s ability to
innovate in AI by imposing government control over AI development and
deployment.
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Calls
for departments and agencies to revise or rescind all policies, directives,
regulations, orders, and other actions taken under the Biden AI order that are
inconsistent with enhancing America’s leadership in AI.
ENHANCING
AMERICA’S AI LEADERSHIP: The United States must act decisively to retain
leadership in AI and enhance our economic and national security.
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This
Executive Order establishes the commitment of the United States to sustain and
enhance America’s dominance in AI to promote human flourishing, economic
competitiveness, and national security.
·
American
development of AI systems must be free from ideological bias or engineered
social agendas. With the right government policies, the United States can
solidify its position as the leader in AI and secure a brighter future for all
Americans.
o
The
order directs the development of an AI Action Plan to sustain and enhance
America’s AI dominance, led by the Assistant to the President for Science &
Technology, the White House AI & Crypto Czar, and the National Security
Advisor.
o
It
further directs the White House to revise and reissue OMB AI memoranda to
departments and agencies on the Federal Government’s acquisition and governance
of AI to ensure that harmful barriers to America’s AI leadership are
eliminated.
CONTINUING
PRIORITIZATION OF AI: President Trump has made American leadership in AI a
priority and is now building on his actions during his first administration.
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President
Trump signed the first-ever Executive Order on AI in 2019 recognizing the
paramount importance of American AI leadership to the economic and national
security of the United States.
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In
historic actions, the Trump Administration committed to doubling AI research investment, established the first-ever national AI research institutes, strengthened American leadership
in AI technical standards, and issued the world’s first AI regulatory guidance to govern AI development in the
private sector.
·
President
Trump also took executive action in 2020 to establish the first-ever guidance
for Federal agency adoption of AI to more effectively deliver services to the
American people and foster public trust in this critical technology.
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Today’s
Executive Order builds upon these past successes and clears a path for the
United States to act decisively to retain leadership in AI, rooted in free
speech and human flourishing.
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REMOVING BARRIERS TO
AMERICAN LEADERSHIP
IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
EXECUTIVE ORDER
January 23, 2025
By the
authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the
United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Purpose. The United States has long been at the forefront of
artificial intelligence (AI) innovation, driven by the strength of our free
markets, world-class research institutions, and entrepreneurial spirit. To
maintain this leadership, we must develop AI systems that are free from
ideological bias or engineered social agendas. With the right Government
policies, we can solidify our position as the global leader in AI and secure a
brighter future for all Americans.
This order revokes certain existing AI policies and directives that act as
barriers to American AI innovation, clearing a path for the United States to
act decisively to retain global leadership in artificial intelligence.
Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to sustain
and enhance America’s global AI dominance in order to promote human
flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security.
Sec. 3. Definition. For the purposes of this order, “artificial
intelligence” or “AI” has the meaning set forth in 15 U.S.C. 9401(3).
Sec. 4. Developing an Artificial Intelligence Action Plan. (a)
Within 180 days of this order, the Assistant to the President for Science and
Technology (APST), the Special Advisor for AI and Crypto, and the Assistant to
the President for National Security Affairs (APNSA), in coordination with the
Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, the Assistant to the President
for Domestic Policy, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB
Director), and the heads of such executive departments and agencies (agencies)
as the APST and APNSA deem relevant, shall develop and submit to the President
an action plan to achieve the policy set forth in section 2 of this order.
Sec. 5. Implementation of Order
Revocation. (a) The APST, the Special Advisor for AI and Crypto, and
the APNSA shall immediately review, in coordination with the heads of all
agencies as they deem relevant, all policies, directives, regulations, orders,
and other actions taken pursuant to the revoked Executive Order 14110 of
October 30, 2023 (Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of
Artificial Intelligence). The APST, the Special Advisor for AI and Crypto, and
the APNSA shall, in coordination with the heads of relevant agencies, identify
any actions taken pursuant to Executive Order 14110 that are or may be
inconsistent with, or present obstacles to, the policy set forth in section 2
of this order. For any such agency actions identified, the heads of agencies
shall, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, suspend, revise, or
rescind such actions, or propose suspending, revising, or rescinding such
actions. If in any case such suspension, revision, or rescission cannot be
finalized immediately, the APST and the heads of agencies shall promptly take
steps to provide all available exemptions authorized by any such orders, rules,
regulations, guidelines, or policies, as appropriate and consistent with
applicable law, until such action can be finalized.
(b) Within 60 days of this order, the OMB Director, in coordination with the
APST, shall revise OMB Memoranda M-24-10 and M-24-18 as necessary to make them
consistent with the policy set forth in section 2 of this order.
Sec. 6. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be
construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the
head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject
to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit,
substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers,
employees, or agents, or any other person.
THE
WHITE HOUSE,
January 23, 2025.
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