Episode 874: Winning the Race – America’s AI Action Plan

Newt's World

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🗓️ 26 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Newt talks with Neil Chilson, current head of AI Policy at the Abundance Institute, about President Trump’s “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan,” which aims to accelerate AI innovation, build American AI infrastructure, and lead in international AI diplomacy and security. Chilson highlights the importance of AI for U.S. global dominance, emphasizing its potential in various sectors like healthcare and defense. Their conversation also touches on the strategic significance of Taiwan in chip production and the challenges of AI regulation, particularly in Europe. The Abundance Institute focuses on emerging technologies, advocating for a culture that embraces innovation and a regulatory environment that enables it. They conclude with optimism about AI's role in medicine and the potential for a future with greater technological advancements.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:08.6	On this episode of Nutsworld, on Wednesday, July 23rd, President Trump released Winning the Race,
0:16.0	America's AI Action Plan, which includes three pillars.
0:20.1	One, accelerate AI innovation.
0:22.8	Two, build American AI infrastructure, and three, lead in international AI diplomacy and security.
0:30.4	The United States is in a race to achieve global dominance in artificial intelligence.
0:35.4	The country who leads with the largest AI ecosystem
0:38.3	will set global AI standards
0:40.3	and realize broad, economic, and military benefits.
0:43.3	We're in the verge of a new industrial revolution,
0:46.3	an information revolution and renaissance.
0:49.3	Here to talk about the AI Action Plan,
0:51.3	I'm really pleased to welcome back my guest, Neil Chilson.
0:55.5	He is the former technologist for the Federal Trade Commission and current head of AI
0:59.5	Policy at the Abundance Institute.
1:10.1	Neil, welcome and thank you for joining me once again on Newts World.
1:13.9	Thanks for having me.
1:15.4	You know, one of President Trump's first actions in January was to revoke President Biden's executive order on AI and sign executive order 14179,
1:25.6	removing barriers to American leadership in artificial intelligence, directing the
1:30.3	creation of an AI action plan. From your standpoint, how does the Trump administration's
1:35.5	philosophy in AI differ from the Biden approach? You know, it's 180 degrees different. The Biden
1:42.2	executive order, which was the third longest in history, laid out a long series of things that the administration was concerned about, about AI.
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