New AI Report and Executive Orders Released

Artificial Intelligence (AI) development has rapidly accelerated in recent years, leading many countries, states and institutions to create laws, regulations, policies, and model language. The United States had been notably absent of a cohesive federal approach. However, there has been some recent movement on the AI issue at the federal level. On this point, President Biden issued an Executive Order (EO 14110) on October 30, 2023 aimed, very generally, at ensuring privacy, equity and security, and mitigating risk and misuse. President Trump, however, subsequently issued EO 14179 in January 2025 rescinding EO 14110 viewing that prior order to be, in part, overly restrictive.

Fast forward to July 23, 2025 when President Trump released the administration's much anticipated AI strategy titled "Winning the Race: America's AI Action Plan" a sweeping 28-page blueprint packed with more than 90 federal policy actions across three key pillars: (1) Accelerating Innovation, (2) Building U.S. AI Infrastructure, and (3) Leading in International Diplomacy & Security. In addition, President Trump issued three Executive Orders simultaneously with the release of this new plan.

Winning the race: America's AI action plan

A high-level breakdown of the three key pillars discussed in this new report is as follows:

• Accelerating innovation: The plan emphasizes removing red tape, implementing certain federal regulations, and seeking private-sector input to remove barriers for AI development. It also mandates that government AI procurement prioritize large language models that are truthful, historically accurate, and ideologically neutral.
• Building American AI infrastructure: This pillar focuses on rapidly expanding data centers and chip fabs by fast-tracking permits and modernizing environmental regulations to accelerate construction and energy capacity.
• Leading international AI diplomacy & security: This part of the plan directs the Commerce and State Departments to champion and export full-stack AI packages-hardware, software, models, and applications-to U.S. allies worldwide and to invest in biosecurity.

Executive orders

A general overview of the three new Executive Orders (EO) released simultaneously with the Plan is as follows:

• Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government (EO 14319): This order, in part, requires federal agencies to use large language models that meet "Unbiased AI Principles" emphasizing "truth-seeking" and "ideological neutrality." It also directs NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) to update its AI Risk Management Framework by removing references to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
• Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure (EO 14318): This order aims to speed up the construction of data centers and related infrastructure, such as semiconductor fabs, by streamlining environmental reviews and modifying regulations for federal permitting.
• Promoting the Export of the American AI Technology Stack (EO 14320): This initiative focuses on increasing the export of U.S.-origin AI technologies to allied nations to strengthen American technological leadership and reduce dependence on foreign technologies, particularly from China.

Of note, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee held a hearing on September 10^th to deep dive into the President's AI Action Plan at which the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy testified on and touted the President's AI strategy. Very generally, as part of this hearing, Senate Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) detailed how the AI framework outlined in President Trump's EO along with the forthcoming legislative proposals contained in his Strengthening Artificial Intelligence Normalization and Diffusion by Oversight and eXperimentation (SANDBOX) Act will facilitate the use and development of AI in the United States in the future.

Going forward

It will be interesting to see what may develop from the release of this Plan and related EOs going forward, including whether any of the ideas outlined will move toward a more federally led approach to AI issues versus various state-based initiatives. Verisk will continue to monitor developments regarding this issue and provide future updates as warranted.