US Restores Preeminence in Global Artificial Intelligence Dominance with New AI Strategy
The U.S. has announced a comprehensive federal strategy, the AI Action Plan, under the Trump Administration, aimed at securing American leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) globally. The plan, unveiled on July 23, 2025, is structured around three key pillars: Accelerating Innovation, Building American AI Infrastructure, and Leading in International Diplomacy and Security [1][3][4].
The AI Action Plan targets the rising geopolitical competition, particularly from China, by pursuing several strategic objectives.
Accelerating Innovation
The Plan promotes deregulatory measures to remove federal and state-level regulatory barriers that impede AI development and deployment. It emphasizes support for open-source AI, expanding research access to private-sector AI resources, and creating federal infrastructure for AI testing and evaluation [1][4].
Building American AI Infrastructure
The Plan facilitates rapid development of data centers and semiconductor fabrication plants by streamlining federal permitting processes and promoting workforce development in high-demand technical occupations like electricians and HVAC technicians. It encourages U.S. investment in infrastructure and talent to strengthen domestic AI capacities [1][3].
Leading in International Diplomacy and Security
The U.S. government will ramp up AI exports—offering a full "American AI Technology Stack" of hardware, software, models, and standards—to allies, while tightening export controls on AI technologies to competitors, notably China. The plan also mandates that federal procurement prioritize AI systems free from ideological bias, supporting transparency and trustworthiness of AI [1][2][3].
Cross-cutting priorities include protection and promotion of American workers, ensuring AI trustworthiness and ideological neutrality, and safeguarding AI from misuse, theft, and malicious threats [1].
In comparison to China’s aggressive state-led AI development strategy, the U.S. Plan blends deregulation, investment incentives, and global diplomacy to maintain technological leadership and influence. The Plan also marks a policy shift favoring open-source AI models and settling standards for ideological neutrality, distinguishing it from previous U.S. approaches and China's highly centralized model [1][4].
Other key aspects of the AI Action Plan include ensuring AI adoption within federal agencies, promoting open-source and open-weight AI models to boost innovation, and prioritizing AI skill development through education and workforce funding streams, and expanding apprenticeships and career and technical education programs [1].
Moreover, the AI Action Plan strengthens alliances to build a united front against adversarial AI practices and is a deliberate strategy to push back against rival influence [1]. This plan presents a pivotal moment for U.S. allies to join the U.S. AI alliance, as the plan emphasizes collaboration and cooperation in the global AI landscape [5].
As the world races towards AI dominance, the U.S. AI Action Plan aims to create favorable conditions for rapid AI innovation and deployment domestically, safeguard national security interests internationally, and assert U.S. dominance in the evolving global AI landscape through a coordinated policy framework involving deregulation, infrastructure investment, workforce development, and strategic export control [1][2][3][4].
References:
[1] White House (2025). AI Action Plan. Retrieved from https://www.whitehouse.gov/ai-action-plan/ [2] Office of Science and Technology Policy (2025). AI Principles. Retrieved from https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/ai-principles/ [3] Federal Communications Commission (2025). AI and the Future of Communications. Retrieved from https://www.fcc.gov/ai-future-communications [4] National Institute of Standards and Technology (2025). AI Standards Roadmap. Retrieved from https://www.nist.gov/ai-standards-roadmap [5] The Economist (2025). The U.S. AI Action Plan: A New Era in Global AI Competition. Retrieved from https://www.economist.com/technology/2025/07/25/the-us-ai-action-plan-a-new-era-in-global-ai-competition
- The comprehensive federal strategy, the AI Action Plan, unveiled under the Trump Administration, aims to secure American leadership in artificial intelligence globally, and it encompasses apolicy-and-legislation in the realm of technology and innovation, particularly concerning regulation, data, AI, and its corresponding policy-and-legislation.
- To accelerate innovation, the AI Action Plan intends to promote deregulatory measures to remove regulatory barriers, support open-source AI, and create federal infrastructure for testing and evaluation, a strategy that sets a point of contrast with China's state-led AI development.
- The Plan also emphasizes Building American AI Infrastructure by facilitating rapid development of data centers, semiconductor fabrication plants, and promoting workforce development, all aimed at strengthening domestic AI capacities and defending against potential threats.
- Under Leading in International Diplomacy and Security, the U.S. government will prioritize AI exports to allies while tightening export controls on AI technologies to competitors, like China. Additionally, the plan ensures that federal procurement prioritizes AI systems free from ideological bias for the transparency and trustworthiness of AI.
- Cross-cutting priorities are also present in the AI Action Plan, such as protecting American workers, ensuring AI trustworthiness, and preventing misuse, theft, and malicious threats, involving politics, technology, and general news. This includes efforts to promote AI adoption within federal agencies while prioritizing AI skill development through education and workforce funding streams, as well as expanding apprenticeships and career and technical education programs.
