United States Government to Advance AI Adoption: Trump Unveils Strategic Plan - Plan aims to speed up the implementation of AI technology and promote infrastructure development to foster global leadership in AI competition
The Trump Administration has unveiled a comprehensive 20-page document, known as America's AI Action Plan, which outlines a strategic approach to maintaining and enhancing America's global leadership in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. The plan, announced in July 2025, focuses on three main pillars: accelerating innovation, building American AI infrastructure, and leading in international AI diplomacy and security.
Accelerating Innovation
The plan aims to remove regulatory barriers that may hinder AI development and deployment. This includes directing agencies to identify and repeal such rules. The plan also endorses open-source AI and calls for expanding research access to private-sector AI resources for startups and academia. The plan emphasizes widespread AI adoption across multiple sectors such as healthcare, defense, manufacturing, and science.
Building American AI Infrastructure
The plan focuses on accelerating the construction and permitting of critical infrastructure including data centers and semiconductor fabrication plants. It also emphasises workforce development in high-demand occupations like electricians and HVAC technicians. The plan also focuses on developing high-quality, national datasets and setting minimum data quality standards for AI model training.
Leading in International AI Diplomacy and Security
The Commerce and State Departments will collaborate with industry to export secure, full-stack American AI technology packages—including hardware, software, models, and standards—to allies worldwide. The plan updates federal procurement guidelines to require government contracts only with AI developers producing objective, ideologically unbiased AI systems, explicitly preventing what the administration calls “Woke AI” in government deployments.
In addition, President Trump signed three executive orders simultaneously with the plan to implement policies preventing “Woke AI” in federal government, expedite federal permitting of data center infrastructure, and promote exporting the American AI technology stack.
The plan notably emphasizes deregulation and innovation promotion over AI guardrails and focuses on expanding the global footprint of U.S. AI technologies rather than restricting sensitive technologies solely to protect from foreign rivals.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is directed to identify, revise, or repeal regulations that unnecessarily hinder AI development or deployment. The Department of Commerce, through NIST, is directed to revise the NIST AI Risk Management Framework to eliminate references to misinformation, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and climate change.
This strategic approach to AI could spark legal battles that could last months, if not years. The White House's AI agenda might face challenges as it moves forward.
Following Tom's Hardware on Google News will provide up-to-date news, analysis, and reviews on AI matters. The White House plans to bolster American AI infrastructure, including data centers, chip manufacturing, and energy infrastructure, particularly in the power-hungry nature of AI, with Elon Musk importing an entire power plant for his Colossus supercluster.
This plan represents an assertive strategy to sustain U.S. AI dominance by accelerating innovation through deregulation, building robust AI infrastructure, promoting widespread adoption, and exporting American AI technology globally under a framework that favors free speech and ideological neutrality in AI systems used by the government.
- The White House's AI agenda, with its focus on deregulation and free speech, could potentially face legal challenges over concerns about AI technology policies and the potential impact on guardrails and international relationships.
- In line with the AI Action Plan, the White House plans to bolster American AI infrastructure by investing in data centers, chip manufacturing, and energy infrastructure, involving Elon Musk's project to import a power plant for his Colossus supercluster.
