The White House has published a new executive order directing national artificial intelligence (AI) policymaking by implementing a singular national standard for development and implementation.
Unifying AI policymaking under a single banner aligns with the administration’s ongoing efforts to propel AI excellence and position the United States as a global leader in innovation. Currently, all 50 states are responsible for designing their own regulations for AI development and policymaking, making it difficult for AI technologies to be compliant.
The establishment of a national framework will help ensure consistency and integrity without being burdened by overregulation, according to federal officials. The order stipulates the resulting framework would forbid state laws that conflict with the newly established policy and that it would protect the youth, prevent censorship, respect copyright and safeguard communities. The resulting removed barriers would contribute to innovation, encourage AI integration and stimulate additional investments, according to officials.
The first directive laid out in the executive order will be to create an AI Litigation Task Force within 30 days of its publication. The task force would preside over challenging state AI laws that do not align with the order’s core purpose of reducing regulations and establishing a minimally burdensome national AI policy framework. Conflicting state laws may include those that unconstitutionally regulate interstate commerce, are preempted by federal regulations or are otherwise unlawful.
Within 90 days of its publication, the secretary of commerce will evaluate existing state AI lies and publish a document identifying those that conflict with the executive order and direct relevant points of order to the task force. Laws that may be included are those that necessitate AI models to alter their perceived accurate outputs or require developers or deployers to provide information in a way that violates the Constitution.
The secretary of commerce will also publish a policy notice featuring the criteria for which states will still be eligible for funding through the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program. The document would detail that any conflicting state AI laws would result in ineligibility.
The policy notice would detail how a fractured regulatory AI landscape would threaten BEAD-funded deployments, AI application growth based on high-speed networks and the program’s mission to deliver universal, high-speed connectivity. In addition, departments and agencies will be expected to consider not enacting laws that conflict with the executive order.
Within 90 days, the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission will publish their own notices to prohibit state laws that would require AI companies to embed deceitful information in their applications. These include any laws that require AI to feature DEI stances in their models in violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act. The commissions will also consider adoption of a federal reporting and disclosure standard for AI models.
The final piece of major legislation included in the executive order would create the uniform policy framework for AI that preempts state laws. The framework would be designed to prevent any AI innovation stifling caused by preempted state laws. Laws that would not be preempted include any relating to:
- Protecting child safety.
- AI computing and data center infrastructure.
- State government procurement and use of AI.
- Any additional topics as determined by the federal government.
The order is the administration’s latest effort to promote AI model excellence, accuracy, safety and innovation. In May 2025, the Take It Down Act was signed into law to protect children and young Americans from deepfake exploitation. In July, another executive order was published to prevent the federal government from implementing AI technologies to promote biases or social agendas.
Photo by Kevin Ku from Pexels
For more of the latest from the expansive government marketplace, check Government Market News daily for new stories, insights and profiles from public sector professionals. Check out our national contracting newsletter here.
