Trump's AI Action Plan: Pushing U.S. Technology Abroad and Easing Domestic Restrictions

Trump's AI Priorities Need to Hit These 5 Marks. I'm Not Holding My Breath

Expertise Artificial intelligence, home energy, heating and cooling, home technology. This week, during a podcast, President Donald Trump is expected to unveil his AI priorities (and an AI Action Plan) for the US. The time is ripe since there's no shortage of problems to sort out, like how to support innovation while protecting Americans' privacy or how to power all those data centers without driving up everyone's power bills. It's all gen AI's fault. What we're likely to get, though, is more of that powerful new tech in more places, with few, if any, new guardrails around it. Just look at how AI-friendly the Trump administration has been so far and how many AI-enthusiast tech executives were standing behind President Trump during his inauguration. But AI is complicated. And generative AI in particular is very much a work in progress. It's promising for sure, making the most of your home's security cameras or taking notes during your work meetings. At the same time, it may fail to identify what year it is, and it struggles with things like math and empathy. With billions of dollars being funneled into its development, the returns, for society, ought to be significant and widely felt. What we need, now, is to make sure that it develops the right way. Trump and AI leaders talk about winning a race with China, but it shouldn't be a race to the bottom. Here are some things I hope to see among the administration's priorities, but I'm not holding my breath. Congress just got done fighting over whether to block states from enforcing their own AI laws and regulations. That measure failed, thanks in part to some Republican senators standing up to their own party leadership. A lot of those state laws are centered on privacy -- how automated systems can use personal information and whether generative AI can duplicate the likeness of famous people. (I'm looking at you, Tennessee, and your law-protecting country music artists.) We can't rely on scattered state laws and rules for this, and we shouldn't have to rely on the courts. The federal government should create some kind of framework to guarantee Americans the right to privacy and personal identity. Otherwise, we'll all end up being deepfaked. Read more: Congress Isn't Stepping Up to Regulate AI. Where Does That Leave Us Now? It takes a lot of computing power to train and run all of those AI models, and keeping all those Nvidia chips powered and cooled requires a ton of electricity. Combine that with the growing electrification of things like home heating and vehicles, and severe weather events made worse by climate change, and you have a perfect storm of new stress on the US electric grid. The good news is that all of those data centers don't have to put a burden on utility customers like you and me. Data centers can be added to the grid with requirements that they participate in demand response programs, sometimes known as virtual power plants -- meaning they go offline when the whole system is most under stress. On the hottest days of summer, when there isn't enough power to go around for all the air conditioners, our policymakers should ensure that no people suffer because we couldn't pause the computers that train chatbots. AI executives are already talking about the massive disruption they expect the technology will cause for workers. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in May that it could wipe out half of entry-level white collar jobs in the next few years. Companies like Shopify and Duolingo have said they're going "AI-first." Whether the technology can do all those jobs is irrelevant -- CEOs and executives think it can, and they decide who stays employed and who doesn't. The potential sudden unemployment of thousands or millions of Americans at once is a crisis-in-waiting, and the administration should be thinking about it now. As we saw in the early days of the COVID pandemic five years ago, many states' unemployment systems are woefully unprepared for a crisis. A retooling of the economy could take much longer than it took for the country to rebound from the pandemic, and a failure to prepare could be devastating. Companies are eagerly selling the idea that AI is a gamechanger in every aspect of our lives, and while it certainly has its uses, not every bit of hype has merit. You can't stop marketing folks from trying to sell their products, but the administration can and should be a wise steward of public resources and the public interest. I expect we'll see proposals for new ways to deploy AI in government service. But this technology isn't magic, and it serves nobody (except whoever sold the AI) to give it jobs that then have to be redone by humans. President Trump has spent a decade promising to make America great again. Going all-in on AI might sound like a way to do that, but this technology is still in its infancy, and it's already been responsible for misinformation, environmental issues and the slopification of social media. Policies that steer us toward a society where AI displaces valuable human work and undermines our social fabric won't make this country any better; they'll just make everything worse.

White House to unveil plan to push US AI abroad, crackdown on US AI rules, document shows

WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday intends to publish a plan that calls for the export of American AI technology abroad and a crackdown on state laws deemed too restrictive to let American AI flourish, a document seen by Reuters shows. According to a summary of the draft plan seen by Reuters, the White House will bar federal AI funding from going to states with tough AI rules and ask the Federal Communications Commission to assess whether state AI laws conflict with its mandate. It will also promote open source and open weight AI development and "export American AI technologies through full-stack deployment packages" and data center initiatives led by the Commerce Department. The plan will "focus on empowering American workers through AI-enabled job creation and industry breakthroughs," according to the document. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The document shows President Donald Trump is laser-focused on removing barriers to AI expansion, a marked departure from former President Joe Biden, who feared U.S. adversaries like China could harness AI to supercharge its military and harm allies. Biden, who left office in January, imposed a raft of restrictions on exports of coveted American AI chips to China and other countries that could divert the semiconductors to China over national security concerns. Trump rescinded Biden's executive order aimed at promoting competition, protecting consumers and ensuring AI was not used for misinformation. He also pulled back Biden's so-called AI diffusion rule, which capped the amount of American AI computing capacity that some countries were allowed to obtain via U.S. AI chip imports. Last month, White House AI czar David Sacks downplayed the risk that coveted American AI chips could be smuggled to bad actors and expressed concern that regulating U.S. AI too tightly could stifle growth and cede the critical market to China. Under Trump's plan, the White House would also promote AI use at the Pentagon, launch a program to identify federal regulations that impede AI development, and streamline the permitting process for data center construction. Writing by Alexandra Alper, Editing by Franklin Paul Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab

White House to unveil plan to push US AI abroad, crack down on restrictive rules, document shows

WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) - The White House intends to publish a plan on Wednesday that calls for the export of American AI technology abroad and a crackdown on state laws deemed too restrictive to let it flourish, a document seen by Reuters shows. According to a summary of the draft plan seen by Reuters, the White House will bar federal AI funding from going to states with tough AI rules and ask the Federal Communications Commission to assess whether state laws conflict with its mandate. It will also promote open source and open weight AI development and "export American AI technologies through full-stack deployment packages" and data center initiatives led by the Commerce Department. The plan will "focus on empowering American workers through AI-enabled job creation and industry breakthroughs," according to the document. U.S. President Donald Trump ordered his administration in January to produce a plan that would make "America the world capital in artificial intelligence" and reduce regulatory barriers to its rapid expansion. That report, which includes input from the National Security Council, is due by Wednesday. Trump is set to mark that deadline with a major speech as part of an event titled "Winning the AI Race," organized by White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks and his co-hosts on the All-In podcast. "The Plan will deliver a strong, specific, and actionable federal policy roadmap that goes beyond the details reported here and we look forward to releasing it soon," White House Office of Science and Technology Policy spokeswoman Victoria LaCivita said in a statement. Trump is laser-focused on removing barriers to AI expansion, a marked departure from his predecessor, Joe Biden, who feared U.S. adversaries like China could harness AI to supercharge its military and harm allies. Biden, who left office in January, imposed a raft of restrictions on exports of coveted American AI chips to China and other countries that could use or divert the semiconductors to China over national security concerns. Trump rescinded Biden's executive order aimed at promoting competition, protecting consumers and ensuring AI was not used for misinformation. He also pulled back Biden's so-called AI diffusion rule, which capped the amount of American AI computing capacity that some countries were allowed to obtain via U.S. AI chip imports. Last month, Sacks downplayed the risk that coveted American AI chips could be smuggled to bad actors and expressed concern that regulating U.S. AI too tightly could stifle growth and cede the critical market to China. Under Trump's plan, the White House would also promote AI use at the Pentagon, launch a program to identify federal regulations that impede AI development and streamline the permitting process for data center construction. Reporting by Jarrett Renshaw and Alexandra Alper; Editing by Franklin Paul and Mark Porter Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab

From tech podcasts to policy: Trump's new AI plan leans heavily on Silicon Valley industry ideas

An artificial intelligence agenda that started coalescing on the podcasts of Silicon Valley billionaires is now being forged into U.S. policy as President Donald Trump leans on the ideas of the tech figures who backed his election campaign. Trump on Wednesday is planning to reveal an "AI Action Plan" he ordered after returning to the White House in January. He gave his tech advisers six months to come up with new AI policies after revoking President Joe Biden's signature AI guardrails on his first day in office. The unveiling is co-hosted by the bipartisan Hill and Valley Forum and the All-In Podcast, a business and technology show hosted by four tech investors and entrepreneurs who include Trump's AI czar, David Sacks. The plan and related executive orders are expected to include some familiar tech lobby pitches. That includes accelerating the sale of AI technology abroad and making it easier to construct the energy-hungry data center buildings that are needed to form and run AI products, according to a person briefed on Wednesday's event who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. It might also include some of the AI culture war preoccupations of the circle of venture capitalists who endorsed Trump last year. Blocking 'woke AI' from tech contractors Countering the liberal bias they see in AI chatbots such as ChatGPT or Google's Gemini has long been a rallying point for the tech industry's loudest Trump backers. Sacks, a former PayPal executive and now Trump's top AI adviser, has been criticizing "woke AI" for more than a year, fueled by Google's February 2024 rollout of an AI image generator that, when asked to show an American Founding Father, created pictures of Black, Latino and Native American men. "The AI's incapable of giving you accurate answers because it's been so programmed with diversity and inclusion," Sacks said at the time. Google quickly fixed its tool, but the "Black George Washington" moment remained a parable for the problem of AI's perceived political bias, taken up by X owner Elon Musk, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, Vice President JD Vance and Republican lawmakers. The administration's latest push against "woke AI" comes a week after the Pentagon announced new $200 million contracts with four leading AI companies, including Google, to address "critical national security challenges." Also receiving one of the contracts was Musk's xAI, which has been pitched as an alternative to "woke AI" companies. The company has faced its own challenges: Earlier this month, xAI had to scramble to remove posts made by its Grok chatbot that made antisemitic comments and praised Adolf Hitler. Streamlining AI data center permits Trump has paired AI's need for huge amounts of electricity with his own push to tap into U.S. energy sources, including gas, coal and nuclear. "Everything we aspire to and hope for means the demand and supply of energy in America has to go up," said Michael Kratsios, the director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, in a video posted Tuesday. Many tech giants are already well on their way toward building new data centers in the U.S. and around the world. OpenAI announced this week that it has switched on the first phase of a massive data center complex in Abilene, Texas, part of an Oracle-backed project known as Stargate that Trump promoted earlier this year. Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and xAI also have major projects underway. The tech industry has pushed for easier permitting rules to get their computing facilities connected to power, but the AI building boom has also contributed to spiking demand for fossil fuel production that will contribute to global warming. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called on the world's major tech firms to power data centers completely with renewables by 2030. "A typical AI data center eats up as much electricity as 100,000 homes," Guterres said. "By 2030, data centers could consume as much electricity as all of Japan does today." A new approach to AI exports? It's long been White House policy under Republican and Democratic administrations to curtail certain technology exports to China and other adversaries on national security grounds. But much of the tech industry argued that Biden went too far at the end of his term in trying to restrict the exports of specialized AI computer chips to more than 100 other countries, including close allies. Part of the Biden administration's motivation was to stop China from acquiring coveted AI chips in third-party locations such as Southeast Asia or the Middle East, but critics said the measures would end up encouraging more countries to turn to China's fast-growing AI industry instead of the U.S. as their technology supplier. It remains to be seen how the Trump administration aims to accelerate the export of U.S.-made AI technologies while countering China's AI ambitions. California chipmakers Nvidia and AMD both announced last week that they won approval from the Trump administration to sell to China some of their advanced computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence. AMD CEO Lisa Su is among the guests planning to attend Trump's event Wednesday. Who benefits from Trump's AI action plan There are sharp debates on how to regulate AI, even among the influential venture capitalists who have been debating it on their favorite medium: the podcast. While some Trump backers, particularly Andreessen, have advocated an "accelerationist" approach that aims to speed up AI advancement with minimal regulation, Sacks has described himself as taking a middle road of techno-realism. "Technology is going to happen. Trying to stop it is like ordering the tides to stop. If we don't do it, somebody else will," Sacks said on the All-In podcast. On Tuesday, 95 groups including labor unions, parent groups, environmental justice organizations and privacy advocates signed a resolution opposing Trump's embrace of industry-driven AI policy and calling for a "People's AI Action Plan" that would "deliver first and foremost for the American people." Amba Kak, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, which helped lead the effort, said the coalition expects Trump's plan to come "straight from Big Tech's mouth." "Every time we say, 'What about our jobs, our air, water, our children?' they're going to say, 'But what about China?'" she said in a call with reporters Tuesday. She said Americans should reject the White House's argument that the industry is overregulated and fight to preserve "baseline protections for the public" as AI technology advances. ___ Associated Press writer Seung Min Kim in Washington contributed to this report.

From tech podcasts to policy: Trump's new AI plan leans heavily on Silicon Valley industry ideas

An artificial intelligence agenda that started coalescing on the podcasts of Silicon Valley billionaires is now being forged into U.S. policy as President Donald Trump leans on the ideas of the tech figures who backed his election campaign. Trump on Wednesday is planning to reveal an "AI Action Plan" he ordered after returning to the White House in January. He gave his tech advisers six months to come up with new AI policies after revoking President Joe Biden's signature AI guardrails on his first day in office. The unveiling is co-hosted by the bipartisan Hill and Valley Forum and the All-In Podcast, a business and technology show hosted by four tech investors and entrepreneurs who include Trump's AI czar, David Sacks. The plan and related executive orders are expected to include some familiar tech lobby pitches. That includes accelerating the sale of AI technology abroad and making it easier to construct the energy-hungry data center buildings that are needed to form and run AI products, according to a person briefed on Wednesday's event who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. It might also include some of the AI culture war preoccupations of the circle of venture capitalists who endorsed Trump last year. Blocking 'woke AI' from tech contractors Countering the liberal bias they see in AI chatbots such as ChatGPT or Google's Gemini has long been a rallying point for the tech industry's loudest Trump backers. Sacks, a former PayPal executive and now Trump's top AI adviser, has been criticizing "woke AI" for more than a year, fueled by Google's February 2024 rollout of an AI image generator that, when asked to show an American Founding Father, created pictures of Black, Latino and Native American men. "The AI's incapable of giving you accurate answers because it's been so programmed with diversity and inclusion," Sacks said at the time. Google quickly fixed its tool, but the "Black George Washington" moment remained a parable for the problem of AI's perceived political bias, taken up by X owner Elon Musk, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, Vice President JD Vance and Republican lawmakers. The administration's latest push against "woke AI" comes a week after the Pentagon announced new $200 million contracts with four leading AI companies, including Google, to address "critical national security challenges." Also receiving one of the contracts was Musk's xAI, which has been pitched as an alternative to "woke AI" companies. The company has faced its own challenges: Earlier this month, xAI had to scramble to remove posts made by its Grok chatbot that made antisemitic comments and praised Adolf Hitler. Streamlining AI data center permits Trump has paired AI's need for huge amounts of electricity with his own push to tap into U.S. energy sources, including gas, coal and nuclear. "Everything we aspire to and hope for means the demand and supply of energy in America has to go up," said Michael Kratsios, the director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, in a video posted Tuesday. Many tech giants are already well on their way toward building new data centers in the U.S. and around the world. OpenAI announced this week that it has switched on the first phase of a massive data center complex in Abilene, Texas, part of an Oracle-backed project known as Stargate that Trump promoted earlier this year. Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and xAI also have major projects underway. The tech industry has pushed for easier permitting rules to get their computing facilities connected to power, but the AI building boom has also contributed to spiking demand for fossil fuel production that will contribute to global warming. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called on the world's major tech firms to power data centers completely with renewables by 2030. "A typical AI data center eats up as much electricity as 100,000 homes," Guterres said. "By 2030, data centers could consume as much electricity as all of Japan does today." A new approach to AI exports? It's long been White House policy under Republican and Democratic administrations to curtail certain technology exports to China and other adversaries on national security grounds. But much of the tech industry argued that Biden went too far at the end of his term in trying to restrict the exports of specialized AI computer chips to more than 100 other countries, including close allies. Part of the Biden administration's motivation was to stop China from acquiring coveted AI chips in third-party locations such as Southeast Asia or the Middle East, but critics said the measures would end up encouraging more countries to turn to China's fast-growing AI industry instead of the U.S. as their technology supplier. It remains to be seen how the Trump administration aims to accelerate the export of U.S.-made AI technologies while countering China's AI ambitions. California chipmakers Nvidia and AMD both announced last week that they won approval from the Trump administration to sell to China some of their advanced computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence. AMD CEO Lisa Su is among the guests planning to attend Trump's event Wednesday. Who benefits from Trump's AI action plan There are sharp debates on how to regulate AI, even among the influential venture capitalists who have been debating it on their favorite medium: the podcast. While some Trump backers, particularly Andreessen, have advocated an "accelerationist" approach that aims to speed up AI advancement with minimal regulation, Sacks has described himself as taking a middle road of techno-realism. "Technology is going to happen. Trying to stop it is like ordering the tides to stop. If we don't do it, somebody else will," Sacks said on the All-In podcast. On Tuesday, 95 groups including labor unions, parent groups, environmental justice organizations and privacy advocates signed a resolution opposing Trump's embrace of industry-driven AI policy and calling for a "People's AI Action Plan" that would "deliver first and foremost for the American people." Amba Kak, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, which helped lead the effort, said the coalition expects Trump's plan to come "straight from Big Tech's mouth." "Every time we say, 'What about our jobs, our air, water, our children?' they're going to say, 'But what about China?'" she said in a call with reporters Tuesday. She said Americans should reject the White House's argument that the industry is overregulated and fight to preserve "baseline protections for the public" as AI technology advances. ___ Associated Press writer Seung Min Kim in Washington contributed to this report.

From Tech Podcasts to Policy: Trump's New AI Plan Leans Heavily on Silicon Valley Industry Ideas

An artificial intelligence agenda that started coalescing on the podcasts of Silicon Valley billionaires is now being forged into U.S. policy as President Donald Trump leans on the ideas of the tech figures who backed his election campaign. Trump on Wednesday is planning to reveal an "AI Action Plan" he ordered after returning to the White House in January. He gave his tech advisers six months to come up with new AI policies after revoking President Joe Biden's signature AI guardrails on his first day in office. The unveiling is co-hosted by the bipartisan Hill and Valley Forum and the All-In Podcast, a business and technology show hosted by four tech investors and entrepreneurs who include Trump's AI czar, David Sacks. The plan and related executive orders are expected to include some familiar tech lobby pitches. That includes accelerating the sale of AI technology abroad and making it easier to construct the energy-hungry data center buildings that are needed to form and run AI products, according to a person briefed on Wednesday's event who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. It might also include some of the AI culture war preoccupations of the circle of venture capitalists who endorsed Trump last year. Blocking 'woke AI' from tech contractors Countering the liberal bias they see in AI chatbots such as ChatGPT or Google's Gemini has long been a rallying point for the tech industry's loudest Trump backers. Sacks, a former PayPal executive and now Trump's top AI adviser, has been criticizing "woke AI" for more than a year, fueled by Google's February 2024 rollout of an AI image generator that, when asked to show an American Founding Father, created pictures of Black, Latino and Native American men. "The AI's incapable of giving you accurate answers because it's been so programmed with diversity and inclusion," Sacks said at the time. Google quickly fixed its tool, but the "Black George Washington" moment remained a parable for the problem of AI's perceived political bias, taken up by X owner Elon Musk, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, Vice President JD Vance and Republican lawmakers. The administration's latest push against "woke AI" comes a week after the Pentagon announced new $200 million contracts with four leading AI companies, including Google, to address "critical national security challenges." Also receiving one of the contracts was Musk's xAI, which has been pitched as an alternative to "woke AI" companies. The company has faced its own challenges: Earlier this month, xAI had to scramble to remove posts made by its Grok chatbot that made antisemitic comments and praised Adolf Hitler. Streamlining AI data center permits Trump has paired AI's need for huge amounts of electricity with his own push to tap into U.S. energy sources, including gas, coal and nuclear. "Everything we aspire to and hope for means the demand and supply of energy in America has to go up," said Michael Kratsios, the director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, in a video posted Tuesday. Many tech giants are already well on their way toward building new data centers in the U.S. and around the world. OpenAI announced this week that it has switched on the first phase of a massive data center complex in Abilene, Texas, part of an Oracle-backed project known as Stargate that Trump promoted earlier this year. Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and xAI also have major projects underway. The tech industry has pushed for easier permitting rules to get their computing facilities connected to power, but the AI building boom has also contributed to spiking demand for fossil fuel production that will contribute to global warming. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called on the world's major tech firms to power data centers completely with renewables by 2030. "A typical AI data center eats up as much electricity as 100,000 homes," Guterres said. "By 2030, data centers could consume as much electricity as all of Japan does today." A new approach to AI exports? It's long been White House policy under Republican and Democratic administrations to curtail certain technology exports to China and other adversaries on national security grounds. But much of the tech industry argued that Biden went too far at the end of his term in trying to restrict the exports of specialized AI computer chips to more than 100 other countries, including close allies. Part of the Biden administration's motivation was to stop China from acquiring coveted AI chips in third-party locations such as Southeast Asia or the Middle East, but critics said the measures would end up encouraging more countries to turn to China's fast-growing AI industry instead of the U.S. as their technology supplier. It remains to be seen how the Trump administration aims to accelerate the export of U.S.-made AI technologies while countering China's AI ambitions. California chipmakers Nvidia and AMD both announced last week that they won approval from the Trump administration to sell to China some of their advanced computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence. AMD CEO Lisa Su is among the guests planning to attend Trump's event Wednesday. Who benefits from Trump's AI action plan There are sharp debates on how to regulate AI, even among the influential venture capitalists who have been debating it on their favorite medium: the podcast. While some Trump backers, particularly Andreessen, have advocated an "accelerationist" approach that aims to speed up AI advancement with minimal regulation, Sacks has described himself as taking a middle road of techno-realism. "Technology is going to happen. Trying to stop it is like ordering the tides to stop. If we don't do it, somebody else will," Sacks said on the All-In podcast. On Tuesday, 95 groups including labor unions, parent groups, environmental justice organizations and privacy advocates signed a resolution opposing Trump's embrace of industry-driven AI policy and calling for a "People's AI Action Plan" that would "deliver first and foremost for the American people." Amba Kak, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, which helped lead the effort, said the coalition expects Trump's plan to come "straight from Big Tech's mouth." "Every time we say, 'What about our jobs, our air, water, our children?' they're going to say, 'But what about China?'" she said in a call with reporters Tuesday. She said Americans should reject the White House's argument that the industry is overregulated and fight to preserve "baseline protections for the public" as AI technology advances. ___ Associated Press writer Seung Min Kim in Washington contributed to this report.

White House to unveil plan to push US AI abroad, crack down on restrictive rules - The Economic Times

The White House will unveil a sweeping AI strategy promoting US technology exports and open-source development while restricting federal funding to states with strict AI laws. The plan, backed by President Trump, marks a shift from Biden's cautious approach, aiming to position America as the global AI leader and innovation hub.The White House intends to publish a plan on Wednesday that calls for the export of American AI technology abroad and a crackdown on state laws deemed too restrictive to let it flourish, a document seen by Reuters shows. According to a summary of the draft plan seen by Reuters, the White House will bar federal AI funding from going to states with tough AI rules and ask the Federal Communications Commission to assess whether state laws conflict with its mandate. It will also promote open source and open weight AI development and "export American AI technologies through full-stack deployment packages" and data center initiatives led by the Commerce Department. The plan will "focus on empowering American workers through AI-enabled job creation and industry breakthroughs," according to the document. Janet Egan, a fellow at The Center for a New American Security, said the plan, as described by Reuters, represents a market shift in strategy from "a primarily restrictive approach to AI" under Biden to a focus on answering the question "how do you start spreading the infrastructure and the technology that will underpin the globe?" Despite the focus on expansion, the plan does mention the importance of "defending against misuse and preparing for future AI-related risks," according to the summary. U.S. President Donald Trump ordered his administration in January to produce a plan that would make "America the world capital in artificial intelligence" and reduce regulatory barriers to its rapid expansion. That report, which includes input from the National Security Council, is due by Wednesday. Trump is set to mark that deadline with a major speech as part of an event titled "Winning the AI Race," organized by White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks and his co-hosts on the All-In podcast. "The Plan will deliver a strong, specific, and actionable federal policy roadmap that goes beyond the details reported here and we look forward to releasing it soon," White House Office of Science and Technology Policy spokeswoman Victoria LaCivita said in a statement. Trump is laser-focused on removing barriers to AI expansion, a marked departure from his predecessor, Joe Biden, who feared U.S. adversaries like China could harness AI to supercharge its military and harm allies. Biden, who left office in January, imposed a raft of restrictions on exports of coveted American AI chips to China and other countries that could use or divert the semiconductors to China over national security concerns. Trump rescinded Biden's executive order aimed at promoting competition, protecting consumers and ensuring AI was not used for misinformation. He also pulled back Biden's so-called AI diffusion rule, which capped the amount of American AI computing capacity that some countries were allowed to obtain via U.S. AI chip imports. Last month, Sacks downplayed the risk that coveted American AI chips could be smuggled to bad actors and expressed concern that regulating U.S. AI too tightly could stifle growth and cede the critical market to China. Under Trump's plan, the White House would also promote AI use at the Pentagon, launch a program to identify federal regulations that impede AI development and streamline the permitting process for data center construction.

White House to unveil plan to push US AI abroad, crackdown on US AI rules, document shows

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House on Wednesday intends to publish a plan that calls for the export of American AI technology abroad and a crackdown on state laws deemed too restrictive to let American AI flourish, a document seen by Reuters shows. According to a summary of the draft plan seen by Reuters, the White House will bar federal AI funding from going to states with tough AI rules and ask the Federal Communications Commission to assess whether state AI laws conflict with its mandate. It will also promote open source and open weight AI development and "export American AI technologies through full-stack deployment packages" and data center initiatives led by the Commerce Department. The plan will "focus on empowering American workers through AI-enabled job creation and industry breakthroughs," according to the document. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The document shows President Donald Trump is laser-focused on removing barriers to AI expansion, a marked departure from former President Joe Biden, who feared U.S. adversaries like China could harness AI to supercharge its military and harm allies. Biden, who left office in January, imposed a raft of restrictions on exports of coveted American AI chips to China and other countries that could divert the semiconductors to China over national security concerns. Trump rescinded Biden's executive order aimed at promoting competition, protecting consumers and ensuring AI was not used for misinformation. He also pulled back Biden's so-called AI diffusion rule, which capped the amount of American AI computing capacity that some countries were allowed to obtain via U.S. AI chip imports. Last month, White House AI czar David Sacks downplayed the risk that coveted American AI chips could be smuggled to bad actors and expressed concern that regulating U.S. AI too tightly could stifle growth and cede the critical market to China. Under Trump's plan, the White House would also promote AI use at the Pentagon, launch a program to identify federal regulations that impede AI development, and streamline the permitting process for data center construction. (Writing by Alexandra Alper, Editing by Franklin Paul)