Hi, I'm Jennifer Huddleston, a senior fellow in technology policy here at the Cato Institute.

I'm Matthew Middlestead, a technology policy research fellow also at the Cato Institute.

So, Matt, one of the topics heading into the Trump administration that got a lot of attention

because it was seen as a potential major difference in the prior administration was what might happen in AI policy.

Very early on, the Trump administration revoked the Biden administration's executive order on AI.

But there was kind of this interim gap in terms of what would AI policy actually

look like in a Trump administration. We recently saw an AI action plan giving us a bit more

insight into how this administration is potentially viewing AI policy, what they think might

help ensure American leadership in this

new and rapidly evolving technology. Just like the Biden EO, this is a very broad executive order,

a very broad action plan in terms of how much it potentially covers. But there's also some very

significant changes in terms of what we've seen,

both in the prior administrations approach to AI policy and even some of the things we'd seen in

earlier administrations. There were AI frameworks and executive orders under the Obama

administration and under the first Trump administration as well. I think that a lot of

people have been really excited about the potential under this executive order, but of course,

it's very broad. So if you could just start with at a high level, how should we think about the

new AI action plan? And what are some of the good things in it?

Yeah, so the AI action plan, as you mentioned, this is a sweeping plan, truly large.

It's 28 pages, includes countless bullet points, 30 subsections, and three large themes that it's trying to target.

And so clearly this is a big plan trying to go big on

artificial intelligence, actually in some ways comparable to the Biden EO. Now, in terms of contrast,

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