[News] What to Expect from Trump’s Upcoming AI Action Plan: Three Key Focuses Unveiled

With Trump set to unveil his AI Action Plan Wednesday, a 20-page draft reveals a focus on three key areas and a strategy that’s “mostly carrots, not sticks,” Time Magazine reports.

As Reuters indicates, Trump is focused on clearing hurdles to AI growth, sharply diverging from Biden’s cautious approach. For instance, after reversing Biden’s AI Diffusion Rule, Trump also lifted the ban on NVIDIA’s H20 sales to China a couple of weeks ago. Here’s what to expect from the highly anticipated, upcoming AI initiative, according to media reports.

Focus One: Clear Legal and Infrastructure Barriers

First of all, Reuters notes that the plan would block federal AI funding to states with strict AI regulations and task the Federal Communications Commission with reviewing legal conflicts. Meanwhile, Time Magazine suggests the focus will likely be on the infrastructure, as the plan prioritizes revamping permitting to speed up new data center construction and modernizing the energy grid by adding fresh power sources.

Focus Two: Encourage AI Innovation

In addition, Reuters notes that the AI Action Plan will also promote open-source and open-weight AI, alongside full-stack AI exports and Commerce-led data center initiatives. According to Time Magazine, open-weight AI models refer to those that developers can freely download, tweak, and run on their own systems.

Notably, as Reuters highlights, despite its expansion-first approach, the plan also stresses the need to “guard against misuse and prepare for future AI risks.”

Focus Three: Global Expansion to Counter China

It is worth noting that the third pillar of the action plan still pushes to spread U.S. AI globally to prevent reliance on Chinese models and chips, according to Time Magazine. Officials fear tools like DeepSeek could give Beijing geopolitical leverage if widely adopted—so the plan aims to steer allies and other nations toward American AI alternatives, the report adds.

What also stands out, as per Nextgov/FCW, would be that Trump plans to sign three AI-focused executive orders ahead of the administration’s sweeping AI Action Plan, set for release Wednesday. Among them, one order targets “woke AI,” aiming to remove ideological bias from government-used large language models, with White House advisors David Sacks and Sriram Krishnan reportedly leading the effort, the report suggests.

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