{"id":38166,"date":"2025-07-23T23:06:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/?p=38166"},"modified":"2025-07-23T23:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:11:16","slug":"president-trumps-ai-action-plan-misses-the-mark-calls-for-action-without-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/president-trumps-ai-action-plan-misses-the-mark-calls-for-action-without-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump\u2019s AI Action Plan Misses the Mark, Calls for Action Without Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today, the Trump administration announced its artificial intelligence action plan<\/a> designed to \u201caccelerate AI innovation\u201d \u2013 by stepping aside and giving technology companies free rein over how the technology develops. The plan removes state and federal regulatory requirements, eliminates protections against bias and discrimination, fails to address competition concerns, and ignores climate and environmental risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plan does continue to advance important work on developing an AI evaluation ecosystem and supporting critical research on AI interpretability, control, security risks, and advancing the fundamental science of AI. However, these modest steps throw into stark contrast the failure to meaningfully invest in America\u2019s AI future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public Knowledge argues that real AI innovation will require real leadership from our democratically elected leaders, investments and actions that break down monopolies and corporate control, and public trust earned by creating AI systems that are safe, fair, and subject to the rule of law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following can be attributed to Nicholas Garcia, Senior Policy Counsel at Public Knowledge:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis plan is action without vision or direction. Cutting regulations and eliminating protections is, by itself, not a plan for innovation and competition in AI \u2013 it is a handout to already-entrenched, powerful tech companies. The real<\/em> constraints on AI innovation are well-known: access to training data, compute power, and research talent. This plan\u2019s solutions in those areas are severely lacking. At its heart, the plan is starkly divided between political posturing and serious science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is clear that some of the experts\u2019 messages from the public comments reached the White House. Continuing to develop an AI evaluation ecosystem; investing in research on AI interpretability and control; promoting the development and use of open-source and open-weights models; and claiming an international leadership position on evaluating AI national security risks are all critically important policy pursuits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPresident Trump also spoke strongly in his speech tonight about the need to protect the rights to read and learn. He is absolutely correct about the need to protect those fundamental rights for everyone, including for AI training. Unfortunately, there is no mention of how to protect these rights or address questions about copyright in the AI action plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInstead of focusing more deeply on research or promoting competition, the AI action plan continues the Trump administration\u2019s attack on diversity and equality, on the green energy solutions needed to both protect our planet and power AI, and on the very institutions of science and learning that are necessary to secure the promise of AI. This demonstrates how the vindictive political project of \u2018preventing woke\u2019 directly clashes with achieving actual leadership in AI.

\u201cUltimately, the plan\u2019s soaring and optimistic language of AI acceleration is undermined by a failure to embrace an affirmative vision of how AI will improve the lives of everyday Americans and how to actually get there. We can only hope that these small steps in the right direction on evaluations, research, and open-source \u2013 along with the administration\u2019s remarks on copyright \u2013 means that there is more to come to ensure that the American people are the winners of the AI race. As it stands right now, this plan fails to meet the challenges of this pivotal moment.”\u00a0

You may view our recent blog post, \u201cHopes and Fears for President Trump\u2019s AI Action Plan<\/a>,\u201d for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Trump administration’s AI Action Plan gives technology companies free rein over how AI develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":36809,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-38166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-trustworthy-ai"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPresident Trump\u2019s AI Action Plan Misses the Mark, Calls for Action Without Vision - Public Knowledge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. 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