The White House released its widely anticipated national framework for artificial intelligence on Friday, drawing the praise of House leadership, which has now pledged to enact the framework into legislation.
David Sacks, President Donald Trump’s AI czar, announced the “National AI Legislative Framework” that seeks to address the “most pressing” issues AI poses, including potential censorship threats.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced Friday that key congressional Republican leaders were united behind Trump’s framework, writing on X:
“AI has begun to demonstrate its potential to improve Americans’ lives. To ensure we continue to harness its potential and beat China in the global AI race, Congress must take action. Today, the Trump Administration took a critical step in releasing a framework that gives Congress a roadmap to pursue legislation that provides innovators with much-needed certainty, while protecting consumers and prioritizing kids’ online safety.
@HouseGOP looks forward to working across the aisle to enact a national framework that unleashes the full potential of AI, cements the U.S. as the global leader, and provides important protections for American families.”
Rep. Jay Obernalte (R-CA), who chairs the House Artificial Intelligence Task Force, echoed Johnson’s comment in a separate X post, writing: “I applaud the White House’s continued leadership in advancing a national policy framework for artificial intelligence.” He added that it was “critical” for the U.S. to remain at the forefront of innovation, while establishing clear, responsible guardrails for AI.”
Obernolte continued, “I will continue to work with my colleagues and the Administration to turn these priorities into meaningful, forward-looking policy that strengthens American competitiveness and ensures AI is developed and deployed in a way that benefits all Americans.”
The Trump White House announced the AI framework, stating that it is “committed to winning the AI race to usher in a new era of human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security for the American people. Achieving these goals requires a commonsense national policy framework that both enables American industry to innovate and thrive and ensures that all Americans benefit from this technological revolution.”
Critically, Trump’s AI framework has seven objectives that protect children, free speech and property rights, while educating Americans, safeguarding American communities and ensuring American AI dominance.
The first key objective protects children. The framework instructs that “AI services and platforms must take measures to protect children, while empowering parents to control their children’s digital environment and upbringing.”
The second objective safeguards American communities: “AI development, including data infrastructure buildout, should strengthen American communities and small businesses through economic growth and energy dominance, while ensuring communities are protected from harmful impacts.”
The third objective respects property rights: “American creators, publishers, and innovators should be protected from AI-generated outputs that infringe their protected content, without undermining lawful innovation and free expression.”
The framework’s fourth objective requires that “The federal government must defend free speech and First Amendment protections, while preventing AI systems from being used to silence or censor lawful political expression or dissent.”
For the fifth objective, the framework unlocks American AI dominance: “The United States must lead the world in AI by removing barriers to innovation, accelerating deployment of AI applications across sectors, and ensuring broad access to the testing environments needed to build world-class AI systems.”
The sixth key objective details ways in which Congress can help educate Americans and develop an AI-ready workforce. “American workers must benefit from AI-driven growth, not just the outputs of AI development, through youth development and skills training, the creation of new jobs in an AI-powered economy, and expanded opportunities across sectors.”
Crucially, the seventh objective calls on Congress to preempt state laws that “regulate AI development,” hamper AI benefits or blame AI companies for users’ actions. The framework states, “The federal government must establish a federal AI policy framework to protect American rights, support innovation, and prevent a fragmented patchwork of state regulations that would hinder our national competitiveness, while respecting federalism and State rights.”
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Photo Credit for article image: official White House photo by Joyce N. Boghosian
