The Donald Trump administration is prioritising the enhancement of United States leadership in artificial intelligence through deregulation, private-sector investment, and strategic policy development. To this end, President Trump announced the Stargate Project on 21 January 2025. The joint venture—whose initial equity funders are OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX—aims to invest up to US$500 billion in AI infrastructure across the US by 2029. Stargate will focus on constructing data centres, building new AI infrastructure, enhancing AI capabilities, and creating “hundreds of thousands of American jobs”.
Shortly thereafter, on 23 January 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14179, marking a clear shift in American domestic and foreign policy on AI development. The Trump administration aims to “sustain and enhance America’s global AI dominance to promote human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security.”[2] To achieve this objective, the US will need to balance a domestic pro-innovation approach with a pro-security foreign policy. This report is in response to the White House call for public comment regarding the development of an AI Action Plan. The authors recommend two sets of interventions for the proposed Action Plan: reprioritising domestic policy through the US AI Safety Institute and adjusting export controls.
U.S. AI Action Plan: Recommendations to the National Science Foundation and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (Siddarth Yadav, Anirban Sarma – Observer Research Foundation)
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