U.S. President Trump's AI Executive Orders Focus on Strengthening American Leadership in Global AI Competition
The Trump administration has taken a significant step towards advancing artificial intelligence (AI) by issuing three executive orders on July 23, 2025. These orders aim to accelerate AI innovation domestically and promote American AI globally, in line with the 28-page "Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan."
The first order mandates that all AI models procured by the federal government must be free of ideological bias, ensuring "truth-seeking" and "ideological neutrality." The second order accelerates the construction of AI infrastructure by streamlining federal permitting for building data centers. The third order promotes the export of a fully American AI technology stack to boost U.S. global leadership in AI technology.
The AI Action Plan outlines around 90 policy recommendations structured around three pillars: Accelerate American AI Innovation, Build American AI Infrastructure, and Lead in International AI Diplomacy and Security. The plan emphasizes protecting American workers, ensuring trustworthy AI, and safeguarding AI from misuse or theft.
Another executive order encourages AI firms to prioritize the development of AI models that foster accuracy, scientific inquiry, and objectivity. The administration also plans to implement a comprehensive exports program, providing financing tools, diplomatic assistance, and technical resources to promote U.S. AI exports.
By lowering costs for American AI companies through enabling faster build-out of data center infrastructure, these orders aim to strengthen U.S. competitiveness in the global AI race. The administration is serious about backing up its vision for global AI leadership with concrete actions, confronting policies in other countries that make American AI less competitive.
The United States will make deals with foreign countries that focus less on closing U.S. shortfalls on data center infrastructure and more on reducing their reliance on Chinese systems. The new executive orders aim to advance both domestic and international objectives of the AI action plan, strengthening U.S. exports of American AI technologies and standards.
The Center for Data Innovation has released a statement on the new AI executive orders, expressing support for the administration's commitment to AI innovation and global leadership. The new orders mark a significant step forward in the Trump administration's efforts to ensure the United States has the policies it needs to win the global AI race.
- The Trump administration's AI Action Plan, with its focus on promoting American AI globally, includes prioritizing policy recommendations to accelerate AI innovation domestically.
- The third executive order is designed to promote the export of a completely American AI technology stack, which is expected to boost U.S. global leadership in AI technology.
- The new executive orders also encourage AI firms to prioritize the development of accurate, unbiased AI models that align with the values of truth-seeking and ideological neutrality.
- The administration's comprehensive exports program, enabled by the new executive orders, offers financing tools, diplomatic assistance, and technical resources to enhance U.S. AI exports and establish American AI standards abroad.
