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    AI Policy Radar

    US AI Action Plan

    The operating system of current US AI policy: it drives agency rulemaking, procurement standards (including the 'unbiased AI' executive order), export promotion, and the federal posture against state regulation — essential context for any US AI strategy.

    What it is

    A 90+ point federal strategy across three pillars — accelerating innovation, building AI infrastructure, and leading internationally — including export of US AI stacks, datacenter permitting reform, and procurement preferences for 'ideologically neutral' models.

    Who is affected

    The operating system of current US AI policy: it drives agency rulemaking, procurement standards (including the 'unbiased AI' executive order), export promotion, and the federal posture against state regulation — essential context for any US AI strategy.

    Key obligations

    • Federal procurement guidance favoring models deemed free of 'ideological bias'
    • Streamlined permitting for AI datacenters and energy
    • Full-stack AI export packages to allies

    Recent signals

    • 11 December 2025

      US executive order targets state AI laws for preemption

      EO 14365 creates a DOJ AI Litigation Task Force and funding levers against state AI regulation, setting up the defining federalism fight of US AI governance.

    • 23 July 2025

      White House releases America's AI Action Plan

      90+ actions across innovation, infrastructure and international leadership — including procurement rules for 'ideologically neutral' AI and full-stack export packages.

    • 19 May 2025

      US enacts TAKE IT DOWN Act on deepfake intimate imagery

      Rare bipartisan federal AI statute criminalizes non-consensual intimate deepfakes and mandates 48-hour platform takedowns.

    • 23 January 2025

      US revokes 2023 AI executive order, pivots to AI dominance agenda

      EO 14179 removes the safety-focused federal framework and directs the AI Action Plan, resetting US AI policy.