America’s AI Action Plan

How it applies

• Pillars: Accelerate AI innovation (including removing regulatory barriers and supporting open models), build American AI infrastructure (data centers, energy, semiconductor manufacturing) and lead in international AI diplomacy and security (including exporting the “American AI technology stack” to allies).
• Regulation: The plan asks agencies to identify and remove rules that hinder AI and suggests that federal funding decisions consider how burdensome a state's AI rules are. It also directs NIST to revise the AI RMF and the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) to evaluate frontier models, including models from China.
• Executive orders: It was accompanied by executive orders on federal procurement of “unbiased” language models, data center permitting and AI exports.
• Technical documentation: Federal procurement rules following the plan require information about models from vendors — for companies selling to the US government, this is a documentation duty in practice.

America's AI Action Plan vs. the EU AI Act

The Action Plan is a policy agenda to reduce regulation; the EU AI Act is binding regulation. Both address standards and evaluation, but with different goals: US evaluation focuses on national security and competitiveness, the EU's on health, safety and fundamental rights.