Unpacking the December 11, 2025 Executive Order: Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence
On December 11, 2025, President Trump issued a new Executive Order (EO) to protect American Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovation from “the most onerous and excessive laws emerging from the States that threaten to stymie innovation.” Consistent with the President’s July 2025 America’s AI Action Plan, the EO further indicates, “[i]t is the policy of the United States to sustain and enhance the United States’ global AI dominance through a minimally burdensome national policy framework for AI.” (more…)
The Trump Administration’s 2025 AI Action Plan – Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan – and Related Executive Orders
On July 23, 2025, the Trump administration released its much-anticipated AI Action Plan, outlining 90 federal policy positions across three key pillars: Accelerating Innovation, Building American AI Infrastructure, and Leading in International Diplomacy and Security. These pillars are designed to guide near-term action and are underpinned by three cross-cutting priorities: protecting and promoting American workers, ensuring that artificial intelligence (AI) systems are trustworthy and free from ideological bias, and safeguarding AI from misuse, theft, or other risks posed by malicious actors. The scope of the AI Action Plan demonstrates the far-reaching impact of AI, with policy positions affecting not only technology but also trade, national security, cybersecurity, energy, labor, education, environmental regulation, antitrust, science, and financial markets.
Post-Election Landscape: New Risks, New Opportunities
Sidley thought leaders explored risks and opportunities of a second Trump administration in a “lightning round”, covering key practice areas. Change is coming and along with it, new and fast-paced risks and opportunities.
