{"id":3203,"date":"2026-03-20T18:31:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/white-house-releases-regulatory-vision-for-ai-nextgov-fcw\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T18:31:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:31:27","slug":"white-house-releases-regulatory-vision-for-ai-nextgov-fcw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/white-house-releases-regulatory-vision-for-ai-nextgov-fcw\/","title":{"rendered":"White House releases regulatory vision for AI – Nextgov\/FCW"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The White House unveiled a new artificial intelligence policy framework on Friday that features seven guiding recommendations to\u00a0support the administration\u2019s policy recommendations for Congress.
The National Policy Framework for AI\u2019s<\/a> seven pillars are Protecting Children and Empowering Parents; Safeguarding and Strengthening American Communities; Respecting Intellectual Property Rights and Creators; Preventing Censorship and Protecting Free Speech; Enabling Innovation and Ensuring American AI Dominance; Educating Americans and Developing an AI-ready Workforce; and Establishing a Federal Policy Framework Preempting Cumbersome State Laws.
Policy details within each pillar aim to balance citizen protections \u2014 such as eliminating child user data collection, augmenting parental safety controls, ensuring ratepayers aren\u2019t burdened with high utility costs and providing tax breaks for AI adoption in small businesses \u2014 with ensuring the U.S. isn\u2019t hindered in advancing AI technologies. For example, while ratepayers \u2014 those who pay fees to utility providers \u2014 are protected, the framework dictates that permitting reform needs to be undertaken\u00a0to scale more data centers.
The intense energy demands that AI-supporting data centers have can increase electricity prices for nearby residents unless offsets are made. President Donald Trump announced <\/a>in his Feb. 25 State of the Union address that he had established an agreement with major tech companies to absorb the surges in energy costs themselves.
Copyright law and creator protections work to thread a similar needle. While the framework recommends that Congress set legislation that protects creators\u2019 voices and likenesses, the administration also acknowledged that its core belief is that AI scraping the internet for copyrighted material is not a violation of U.S. copyright law. The framework further says the U.S. court system has the final say in if an AI developer violates fair use laws.\u00a0
Regarding copyright law, the administration also suggests that Congress develop enabling licensing laws or a mechanism for collective rights holders to be able to negotiate compensation for their likeness or content being used in AI.
The framework also features a return of White House calls for state AI law preemption. The Trump administration asks Congress to protect the U.S. AI advantage by rejecting state laws that are deemed\u00a0\u201cundue burdens.\u201d
Simultaneously, the framework notes that state law preemption will not apply to how states want to use AI technology or in areas where states are uniquely suited to govern certain subject matters.\u00a0
\u201cPreemption must ensure that State laws do not govern areas better suited to the Federal Government or act contrary to the United States\u2019 national strategy to achieve global AI dominance,\u201d the framework reads.\u00a0
The final three pillars \u2014 workforce development, ensuring innovation and free speech protection \u2014 are mired in controversy. The framework says\u00a0the broad U.S.\u00a0workforce needs\u00a0to learn a level of AI-fluency, and asks Congress to support non-regulatory methods to expand existing education programs that foster AI education.\u00a0
Experimental and isolated sandboxes are also highlighted as a priority area in the framework, which recommends that Congress establish regulatory sandboxes for AI applications to help spur software testing and development.
It also supports Congress providing resources that allow industry and academic partners access to federal datasets for further AI model training. Notably, the framework says Congress should not create any new federal rulemaking body to regulate AI and instead maintain a \u201csector-specific\u201d approach with existing regulatory bodies.
In keeping with protecting free speech against AI products deemed \u201cbiased<\/a>,\u201d the framework also recommends Congress prevent federal agencies from using \u201ccoercing technology providers\u201d that operate their technology upon \u201cideological agendas.\u201d
Such a recommendation follows Trump\u2019s sweeping Feb. 27 demand <\/a>that all federal agencies remove Anthropic products from their operations, after the AI company refused to allow the Pentagon to use Claude for missions<\/a> involving mass surveillance of Americans or to guide autonomous weapons\u00a0
The framework also asks Congress to provide recourse for Americans to report censorship activity on or within AI platforms.\u00a0
The same morning the framework was released, Republican members of the House swiftly vocalized their support, with House Speaker\u00a0Mike Johnson, R-La., and Reps. Steve Scalise, R-La., Brian Babin, R-Texas, Brett Guthrie, R-Ky.,\u00a0and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, issuing a statement pledging to follow the framework\u2019s suggestions.\u00a0
\u201cHouse Republicans look 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,\u201d the press release reads.
Reactions to the framework outside the federal government were more mixed. The Business Software Alliance said it \u201cwelcomes\u201d the framework, underscoring its emphasis on developing an AI-ready workforce, liberating select data for AI training and advancing AI adoption.\u00a0
\u201cThe Framework helps catalyze a needed conversation in Washington, grounded in the reality that building trust in AI and enabling its broad adoption requires clear, workable national rules for the United States.\u201d
Online business industry group NetChoice also said it supports the adoption of the framework.\u00a0
\u201cThe Trump administration understands that it was a light-touch regulatory environment, not 50 different confusing and conflicting regulatory regimes, that enabled the internet revolution and that innovation and investment in winning the AI future for America will require a similar approach,\u201d Patrick Hedger, NetChoice director of policy said.
Alternatively, AI watchdog organizations like Americans for Responsible Innovation argued the framework shields AI developers from liability.\u00a0
\u201cAfter witnessing the harmful impact of the tech industry\u2019s move-fast-break-things mantra during the rise of social media platforms, the public wants safeguards now,\u201d ARI President Brad Carson said. \u201cWhat\u2019s most disturbing is that the framework recommends both banning state laws on AI and urges Congress not to create new \u2018open-ended\u2019 liability for the AI industry when it comes to child harms. For the AI industry, that means open season on the American public.\u201d <\/use> <\/svg>
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