What is the Trump Administration’s AI Plan? | Daniel Cochrane

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🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

We find ourselves in the midst of a new revolution: The AI Revolution. Complex computer models are now able to replicate human thought, making them capable of an entirely new realm of tasks. AI is going to affect the way we work, where we live, how we learn and process information, how we bank, how we write, even how we interact with people around us.

Governments around the world are paying attention to the possibilities that AI offers, and ours is no exception.

I sat down with Daniel Cochrane, senior research associate for the Center for Technology and the Human Person at The Heritage Foundation, to talk about what the Trump Administration is saying about AI.

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