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Executive Order 14365

Also known as: Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence, AI preemption order, AI Litigation Task Force

Executive Order 14365, “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence”, signed on December 11, 2025, directs US federal agencies to counter state AI laws considered burdensome — through litigation, funding conditions and federal standards — and calls for federal legislation establishing a uniform national AI framework that preempts conflicting state laws.

  • AI regulation
  • USA

In one sentence

Executive Order 14365 (December 2025) directs US agencies to challenge burdensome state AI laws and calls for a preempting federal framework.

Example

The Department of Justice’s AI Litigation Task Force examines whether a state law requiring AI developers to disclose safety information can be challenged in federal court.

How it applies

  • Measures: An AI Litigation Task Force at the Department of Justice to challenge state AI laws in court; an evaluation by the Department of Commerce identifying “onerous” state laws; conditions on certain federal broadband funding for states with such laws; proceedings at the FCC and FTC on federal standards and on state laws that require changes to truthful model outputs; and a recommendation for federal legislation that preempts state AI laws, with exceptions such as child safety.
  • Status: As of September 2026, Congress has not passed a law preempting state AI regulation. The Department of Justice supported a lawsuit against Colorado's AI Act, whose enforcement a federal court stayed in April 2026 before Colorado replaced the law.
  • Technical documentation: For companies, the result is uncertainty rather than relief: state laws such as California's SB 53 remain in force while their validity is disputed. Keeping documentation modular by jurisdiction makes it easier to adapt when laws change.

Executive Order 14365 vs. the EU AI Act

Both aim at one set of rules for one market. The EU achieved it through a single regulation that replaced national approaches before they diverged; in the USA, the federal government is trying to limit state laws without a federal AI law to replace them.