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Deep Dive 307 - America’s AI Action Plan: Green Lights or Guardrails?

Deep Dive 307 - America’s AI Action Plan: Green Lights or Guardrails?

Update: 2025-08-14
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America’s new AI Action Plan — announced by the White House in July and framed by three pillars of accelerating innovation, building national AI infrastructure, and projecting U.S. leadership abroad — promises more than 90 separate federal actions, from fast-tracking approvals for medical-AI tools to revising international export controls on advanced chips. Supporters hail its light-touch approach, swift development of domestic and foreign deployment of AI, and explicit warnings against “ideological bias” in AI systems. In contrast, some critics say the plan removes guardrails, favors big tech, and is overshadowed by other actions disinvesting in research. How will the Plan impact AI in America?
Join us for a candid discussion that will unpack the Plan’s major levers and ask whether the “innovation-first” framing clarifies or obscures deeper constitutional and economic questions.
Featuring:

Neil Chilson, Head of AI Policy, Abundance Institute
Mario Loyola, Senior Research Fellow, Environmental Policy and Regulation, Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment, The Heritage Foundation
Asad Ramzanali, Director of Artificial Intelligence & Technology Policy, Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator, Vanderbilt University
(Moderator) Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow, University of Texas School of Law
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Deep Dive 307 - America’s AI Action Plan: Green Lights or Guardrails?

Deep Dive 307 - America’s AI Action Plan: Green Lights or Guardrails?

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