America's AI Action Plan Is Pretty Good (thezvi.wordpress.com)

The White House released a three‑pillar AI Action Plan—Accelerate AI Innovation, Build American AI Infrastructure, and Lead in International AI Diplomacy and Security—and tied several executive actions to those goals. On substance the plan is surprisingly detailed and pro‑innovation: it pushes to remove “overly burdensome” rules that could slow AI deployment, to expand compute access and open‑source efforts, and to evaluate foreign models (notably Chinese models’ alignment). It also signals a hard “race to win” mentality, prioritizing economic and military leadership and standard‑setting. Key technical implications: a presidential executive order narrows federal procurement to LLMs that meet two “Unbiased AI Principles”—truth‑seeking and ideological neutrality—while permitting vendors to comply via transparency (e.g., disclosing system prompts, specs, evaluations) without requiring model weights. The plan allows national‑security exceptions and acknowledges technical limits, so immediate procurement changes are unlikely—but the wording risks expansive definitions of “truth” or state‑preemption of local regulations. Overall, the package leans pro‑growth and pragmatic, but some clauses (anti‑bias language, state regulatory leverage) are ambiguous and could be implemented in ways that either lack enforcement power or overreach.