Last week, the Trump administration revealed its AI Action Plan. President Donald Trump first directed high-level officials to develop the plan in one of his early executive orders on January 23, 2025, seeking to create a roadmap to “sustain and enhance America’s global AI dominance in order to promote human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security.” Amid its development, over 10,000 public comments were submitted, resulting in three pillars of development to advance American AI leadership: innovation, infrastructure, and global influence. According to the plan, achieving the goals under these pillars will require building AI infrastructure, leading AI diplomacy among the government, creating quality jobs through AI for American workers, designing systems free from ideological bias, and preventing AI misuse by malicious actors. In this piece, scholars from across Brookings unpack the contents of the plan and discuss its implications in the U.S. and abroad.
