What’s in Trump’s new AI policy and why it matters
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🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump today unveiled his broad approach toward faster development of AI, |
| 0:06.0 | with new proposals that he says would reduce regulation, accelerate innovation, and position |
| 0:11.0 | the U.S. ahead of China. |
| 0:13.0 | The president spelled out his vision at an AI summit in Washington a short time ago, |
| 0:17.0 | surrounded by some of the biggest names in tech, including Silicon Valley entrepreneur and White House AI and CryptoZar, David Sacks. |
| 0:25.6 | Whether we like it or not, we're suddenly engaged in a fast-paced competition to build and define this groundbreaking technology that will determine so much about the future of civilization itself. |
| 0:40.5 | America is the country that started the AI race. And as president of the United States, |
| 0:47.5 | I'm here today to declare that America is going to win it. |
| 0:52.2 | President Trump also planned to sign three executive orders on AI. |
| 0:57.0 | One reportedly targets what the administration called |
| 1:00.0 | ideological bias in AI chatbots. |
| 1:03.0 | Another aims to make it easier to build massive AI data centers and the energy |
| 1:07.0 | infrastructure they require. |
| 1:09.0 | And a third encourages the export of American AI tech |
| 1:12.8 | to foreign countries. |
| 1:14.3 | To help us understand the implications |
| 1:16.0 | and questions around this approach, |
| 1:18.1 | we're joined by Will Oremes. |
| 1:19.8 | He is tech reporter at the Washington Post. |
| 1:22.3 | Well, thanks for joining us. |
| 1:23.6 | You were watching the president's speech just moments ago. |
| 1:26.4 | Before we dig into the details, |
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