On July 18, the Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. President Trump is expected to issue a number of executive orders next week outlining Trump’s vision to win the AI race with China. By then, Trump is expected to talk about his AI "action plan."
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One of the executive orders is expected to boost exports of U.S. chips and AI tools through agencies such as the U.S. Export-Import Bank, people familiar with the matter said. For the U.S. government, exporting technology to countries friendly to the country is a priority, with the goal of ensuring that the AI systems in these countries run on U.S. AI technology rather than Chinese products.
White House AI director David Sacks and White House senior AI policy adviser Sriram Krishnan have been leading an effort to speed up the export of Nvidia's high-performance AI chips to countries such as the United Arab Emirates.
The U.S. government is also expected to focus on speeding up the approval process for data centers used to train models and speeding up energy production for these data centers. Earlier this week, Trump, Sacks and other administration officials praised tens of billions of dollars in investments in such projects in Pittsburgh.
White House officials are also preparing an executive order targeting tech companies they deem to have "woke" AI models, according to people familiar with the matter, the latest move by the White House to crack down on a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
The order would require AI companies that receive federal contracts to remain politically neutral and unbiased in their models, countering what government officials see as liberal bias in some models. With the rapid popularity of AI chatbots such as Google Gemini in recent years, some conservatives believe that they have a political liberal tendency. Some companies have been criticized for irritating consumers with their chatbots' responses to certain questions, or for generating images that incorrectly depict historical figures as people of color. Last year, Google came under fire for its Gemini AI assistant that generated images of a black version of George Washington and racially diverse Nazi soldiers.
With nearly every major tech company fighting to have its AI tools adopted by the federal government, the executive order could have far-reaching consequences and force developers to be extra cautious in how they develop their models.
As of press time, the White House has not commented.