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    AI Policy Radar

    US AI Action Plan

    The operating system of current US AI policy: it drives agency rulemaking, procurement standards (including the 'unbiased AI' executive order), export promotion, and the federal posture against state regulation — essential context for any US AI strategy.

    What it is

    A 90+ point federal strategy across three pillars — accelerating innovation, building AI infrastructure, and leading internationally — including export of US AI stacks, datacenter permitting reform, and procurement preferences for 'ideologically neutral' models.

    Who is affected

    The operating system of current US AI policy: it drives agency rulemaking, procurement standards (including the 'unbiased AI' executive order), export promotion, and the federal posture against state regulation — essential context for any US AI strategy.

    Key obligations

    • Federal procurement guidance favoring models deemed free of 'ideological bias'
    • Streamlined permitting for AI datacenters and energy
    • Full-stack AI export packages to allies

    Recent signals

    • 29 September 2026

      US executive order renames AI as 'Super Intelligence' in federal communications

      Executive Order 14434 directs agencies to use the term Super Intelligence and asks the science office to propose a federal definition. Terminological rather than regulatory, but a definition could shape later rules.

    • 11 December 2025

      US executive order targets state AI laws for preemption

      EO 14365 creates a DOJ AI Litigation Task Force and funding levers against state AI regulation, setting up the defining federalism fight of US AI governance.

    • 23 July 2025

      White House releases America's AI Action Plan

      90+ actions across innovation, infrastructure and international leadership — including procurement rules for 'ideologically neutral' AI and full-stack export packages.

    • 19 May 2025

      US enacts TAKE IT DOWN Act on deepfake intimate imagery

      Rare bipartisan federal AI statute criminalizes non-consensual intimate deepfakes and mandates 48-hour platform takedowns.