White House to unveil plan to push US AI abroad, crackdown on US AI rules, document shows

Jarrett Renshaw

Tue, Jul 22, 2025, 2:30 PM 2 min read

By Jarrett Renshaw

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House connected Wednesday intends to people a program that calls for the export of American AI exertion overseas and a crackdown connected authorities laws deemed excessively restrictive to fto American AI flourish, a papers seen by Reuters shows.

According to a summary of the draught program seen by Reuters, the White House volition barroom national AI backing from going to states with pugnacious AI rules and inquire the Federal Communications Commission to measure whether authorities AI laws struggle with its mandate.

It volition besides beforehand unfastened root and unfastened value AI improvement and "export American AI technologies done full-stack deployment packages" and information halfway initiatives led by the Commerce Department.

The program volition "focus connected empowering American workers done AI-enabled occupation instauration and manufacture breakthroughs," according to the document.

The White House did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

The papers shows President Donald Trump is laser-focused connected removing barriers to AI expansion, a marked departure from erstwhile President Joe Biden, who feared U.S. adversaries similar China could harness AI to supercharge its subject and harm allies.

Biden, who near bureau successful January, imposed a raft of restrictions connected exports of coveted American AI chips to China and different countries that could divert the semiconductors to China implicit nationalist information concerns.

Trump rescinded Biden's enforcement bid aimed astatine promoting competition, protecting consumers and ensuring AI was not utilized for misinformation. He besides pulled backmost Biden's alleged AI diffusion rule, which capped the magnitude of American AI computing capableness that immoderate countries were allowed to get via U.S. AI spot imports.

Last month, White House AI czar David Sacks downplayed the hazard that coveted American AI chips could beryllium smuggled to atrocious actors and expressed interest that regulating U.S. AI excessively tightly could stifle maturation and cede the captious marketplace to China.

Under Trump's plan, the White House would besides beforehand AI usage astatine the Pentagon, motorboat a programme to place national regulations that impede AI development, and streamline the permitting process for information halfway construction.

(Writing by Alexandra Alper, Editing by Franklin Paul)