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Trump Plans to Give A.I. Developers a Free Hand

President Trump detailed a new “A.I. Action Plan,” which contains policy guidelines to encourage the growth of the artificial intelligence industry in the United States. (Credit...Kenny Holston/The New York Times)
President Trump said on Wednesday that he planned to speed the advance of artificial intelligence in the United States, opening the door for companies to develop the technology unfettered from oversight and safeguards, but added that A.I. needed to be free of “partisan bias.”

In a sweeping effort to put his stamp on the policies governing the fast-growing technology, Mr. Trump signed three executive orders and outlined an “A.I. Action Plan,” with measures to “remove red tape and onerous regulation” as well as to make it easier for companies to build infrastructure to power A.I.

One executive order barred the federal government from buying A.I. tools it considered ideologically biased. Another order would speed up the permitting process for major A.I. infrastructure projects, and a third focused on promoting the export of American A.I. products around the world.

“America is the country that started the A.I. race,” Mr. Trump said in a Wednesday evening speech in front of administration officials and tech executives, including Jensen Huang, the chief executive of the chipmaker Nvidia. “And as president of the United States, I’m here today to declare that America is going to win it.”

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Mr. Trump’s plan signals that his administration has embraced A.I. and the tech industry’s arguments that it must be allowed to work with few guardrails for America to dominate a new era defined by the technology. It is a forceful repudiation of other governments, including the European Commission, that have approved regulations to govern the development of A.I.

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