President Trump is set to release a new AI "action plan" on Wednesday that aims to boost the US’s global AI lead by cutting back regulations. The move flips the Biden administration’s more cautious policies on their head.
The plan reportedly pushes for easier export of AI tech and fewer hurdles for AI development stateside. Expect faster permits for AI data centers, more AI use at the Pentagon, and even withholding federal funds from states with strict AI laws.
Trump will talk about the plan during a "Winning the AI Race" event, hosted by White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks and his "All-In" podcast co-hosts. 
This follows an order Trump signed early in his term to protect America’s AI dominance for economic and security goals.
Axios and The Wall Street Journal report upcoming executive orders could promote AI and chip exports to friendly countries. A controversial order might target "woke AI" by blocking federal contracts for AI developers accused of creating liberal-biased algorithms.
The White House didn’t comment.
Constitutional law experts say the "woke AI" order could face strong legal challenges.
UC San Francisco law professor Rory Little said:
"If you sanction software that is liberal, but not software that is conservative, the challenge will be that the executive order is content-based discrimination."
"I don’t even know how you tell if software is liberal or conservative,"
"The First Amendment protects intellectual property as forms of speech that the government may not single out for punishment."
Legal experts note companies like Amazon, Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft could still benefit in the short term, since these orders act more like negotiation starters than hard laws.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Tuesday:
"We are increasingly working with the government to roll out our services to lots of government employees."
If challenged, the "woke AI" order will likely follow the legal fights over Trump’s earlier executive orders that banned federal contractors from running DEI programs.
David Coale of Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann law firm called these measures risky:
"This [type of] proposal goes too far,"
"Serious First Amendment issues" come up when conditioning AI contracts on political bias.
