The Trump administration recently issued a national legislative framework for the use of artificial intelligence or AI.
This framework addresses six key objectives:
- Protecting Children and Empowering Parents: Parents are best equipped to manage their children’s digital environment and upbringing. The administration is calling on Congress to give parents tools to effectively do that, such as account controls to protect their children’s privacy and manage their device use. Also, AI platforms should implement features to reduce potential sexual exploitation of children or encouragement of self-harm.
- Safeguarding and Strengthening American Communities: AI development should strengthen American communities and small businesses through economic growth and energy dominance. The administration believes that ratepayers should not foot the bill for data centers, and is calling on Congress to streamline permitting so that data centers can generate power on site, enhancing grid reliability.
- Respecting Intellectual Property Rights and Supporting Creators: The creative works and unique identities of American innovators, creators, and publishers must be respected in the age of AI. Yet, for AI to improve it must be able to make fair use of what it learns from the world it inhabits. The administration is proposing an approach that achieves both of these objectives.
- Preventing Censorship and Protecting Free Speech: The Federal government must defend free speech and First Amendment protections, while preventing AI systems from being used to silence or censor lawful political expression or dissent. AI cannot become a vehicle for government to dictate right and wrong-think. The administration is proposing guardrails to ensure that AI can pursue truth and accuracy.
- Enabling Innovation and Ensuring American AI Dominance: The Administration is calling on Congress to take steps to remove outdated or unnecessary barriers to innovation, accelerate the deployment of AI across industry sectors, and facilitate access to the testing environments needed to build AI systems.
- Educating Americans and Developing an AI-Ready Workforce: The Administration wants American workers to reap the rewards of AI-driven growth, encouraging Congress to further workforce development and skills training programs, expanding opportunities across sectors and creating new jobs in an AI-powered economy.
Administration officials said the framework can succeed only if it is applied uniformly across the United States. A patchwork of conflicting state laws would undermine innovation and the nation’s ability to lead in the global AI race.
The framework is supported by the Business Roundtable.
“Business Roundtable welcomes the Trump Administration’s comprehensive national AI legislative framework. A federal AI law that avoids a patchwork of state rules would provide the certainty businesses need to invest, innovate and deploy AI across the economy,” Business Roundtable President & COO Kristen Silverberg said.