President Trump Initiates Executive Actions Prohibiting 'Progressive' AI Designs
President Donald Trump has signed a series of executive orders aimed at accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) development, infrastructure, and federal procurement policy. The orders, signed in 2025, reflect a deregulatory approach towards AI, prioritizing expedited AI infrastructure development, export promotion, and ideological neutrality in federal AI use.
The first order, Executive Order 14179, signed on January 23, 2025, mandates the removal of regulatory barriers that hinder AI innovation. It also directs the development of a comprehensive AI Action Plan to sustain and enhance American global AI dominance. The AI Action Plan, released on July 23, 2025, emphasizes deregulation, investment in infrastructure, and promotion of ideologically neutral AI systems to advance economic competitiveness and national security.
On the same day, three additional orders were issued alongside the AI Action Plan. One order targets the acceleration of federal permitting for data center infrastructure, streamlining and fast-tracking federal permitting and reviews to expedite construction of major AI infrastructure projects. Another order promotes the export of American AI technology, encouraging increased AI exports to maintain U.S. leadership in AI technologies.
The most controversial order, however, is the one that prevents "woke AI" in the federal government. This order prohibits federal procurement of AI systems with ideological biases such as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) influences. It mandates that federally procured AI models be truthful, historically accurate, ideologically neutral, and nonpartisan, with contract terms enforcing compliance and accountability for vendors.
The orders do not require AI models receiving federal funding to maintain ideological neutrality, unlike the previous order. The order states that DEI can "distort the quality and accuracy of the output," which includes information related to race or sex, manipulation of racial or sexual representation, critical race theory, transgenderism, unconscious bias, intersectionality, and systemic racism.
The orders were signed at an AI summit in Washington, D.C., held at the Mellon Auditorium. The order comes after Trump revoked a six-decade-old executive order that prohibited workplace discrimination by federal contractors. The orders were reported by The Guardian, but The Guardian and Techcrunch did not report the orders in the provided context.
President Trump stated, "We want you to put America first," emphasizing the administration's focus on national competitiveness. The orders could potentially remove environmental protections that hinder data center construction and demand deregulation of AI development. Another order from President Trump demands deregulation of AI development, although specific details about this order were not available in the recent sources.
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- The 2025 executive orders signed by President Trump, including Executive Order 14179, prioritize technology, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), by mandating deregulation, infrastructure development, and encouraging ideologically neutral AI systems in federal policy-and-legislation.
- The orders also address general-news, such as promoting the export of American AI technology, accelerating federal permitting for data center infrastructure, and the controversial prevention of "woke AI" in federal procurement, which prohibits AI systems with ideological biases from being adopted in the federal government.
