The White House has released the “AI Action Plan.” This will assemble the next decade as a technical race the US cannot afford to lose.
The action plan, caught up in the urgent rhetoric of the new Cold War, argues that securing victory in AI is nothing more than a state order. Trump’s preface sets the tone and calls for America to “achieve and maintain unquestioned, unchallenged global technological dominance” as the core doctrine of national security.
To get there, the administration is making three innovative pushes. It will launch a fire for domestic innovation and build enormous infrastructure to maintain it, projecting American power around the world to ensure victory.
Pillar I: Action Plans to Support the Private AI Sector
At its heart, the strategy is complete restraint of the private sector. The first move is for documents that explicitly target the “funny” approach of previous administrations to target topics to past regulatory frameworks.
Philosophy is simple. Get out of the way and innovate into innovators. Suffocating technology with current rules is “numbing one of the most promising technologies we have seen for generations,” according to US Vice President JD Vance.
The plan threatens to use the power of federal funds as a stick and withhold money from states that have deliberately enacted “burdened AI regulations.”
It also walks confidently into the culture war, claiming that AI systems paid by taxpayers must reflect “American values.” This implies a preference for a “objective, top-down, ideological bias” model and an order to scrub concepts such as misinformation and diversity, equity, and inclusion from the official government AI risk guide.
Pillar II: Concrete and Cord Foundations
The second pillar of the action plan relates to the raw physical requirements of the AI revolution.
“AI is the first digital service in modern life and is challenging America to build a much larger energy generation than it is today,” the plan says frankly. The answer is national mobilization under the banner of “Build, Baby, Build!” It’s a huge promise to build a data center, bring semiconductor manufacturing into your home, and build the power grid of the future.
This means quickly tracking environmental permits, overhauling the country’s energy supply, and mixing today’s power sources with bets on tomorrow’s fusion. Bringing Chipmaking back to the US coast is at the heart of this vision, and we promise to refocus on the Chips program’s office on delivering results without attaching ideological strings.
And behind all that is the driving force behind training a new generation of engineers and engineers to build and maintain the backbone of this new industry.
Pillar III: Ensuring an undisputed lead on the world stage
The final pillar is to shape the world with an image of America. The ambition is to make the entire US technology stack, from silicon to software, into the indisputable “gold standard for AI around the world.” This includes an aggressive export strategy to arm American technology-equipped allies, explicitly countering China’s influence.
This new foreign policy includes pushing back China’s influence in global forums like the United Nations. It believes this is being used by the administration to promote regulations that kill innovation. It also shows a more hawkish approach to security, requiring stricter control of advanced chips that drive the progression of AI.
The plan faces the dark side of AI head-on, acknowledges the possibility of misuse in everything from cybercrime to biological weapons, and calls for the efforts of the public ahead of the threat.
AI Action Plans are located in a split industry
The blueprint for the future is deeply conflicted about its own creation. This week, Openai CEO Sam Altman warned about the disruptive power of this technology.
Altman warns that AI not only eliminates jobs, but also poses a national security threat. He has spoken about the looming “fraud crisis” with the ability to deceive security systems and co-signed a letter saying, “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI is a global priority.”
His commentary reminds us that the AI dominance competition is also a competition to control technology that has the potential to change the world. While Washington focuses on victory, AI architects are quietly wrestling about what they actually mean.
However, the plan received a careful welcome from nonprofit Americans for responsible innovation (ARI). The group saw their own fingerprints on several suggestions, from stronger export controls to further research into AI safety.
However, Ali is deeply troubled by the administration’s move to punish states for pursuing their own AI safety rules. This position also appears to contradict the views of industry leaders like Altman, who are warning themselves against the disruption of regulations at 50 different state levels.
“Ultimately, this plan of action is to increase surveillance of AI systems while maintaining a handoff approach to hard, fast regulations,” said ARI President Brad Carson. He sees an opportunity to better understand “the great risks that frontier models create for the public,” but is concerned about the administration’s tactics.
“Targeting AI protection plans passed through states is a source of concern. To lead the Americans, they must build public trust in these systems, and safety measures are essential for their citizens’ confidence.”
(Photo: Luke Michael)
reference: Sam Altman: AI poses unemployment and national security threats
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