# Securing the AI future: How President Trump's action plan can position America for success

The Trump administration is prioritizing the critical role of artificial intelligence in creating and upholding freedom. Just three weeks in,  declared at a global AI summit in Paris that AI "will make people more productive, more prosperous, and more free. The United States of America is the leader in AI, and our administration plans to keep it that way."

To achieve this, the White House is  and calling on leading American AI companies to submit our best ideas. OpenAI is pleased to submit proposals today on a range of important considerations for AI from national security, to infrastructure and energy, to the federal government’s own use of AI.

Human history is the history of human innovation of technologies that create and scale new freedoms. From daylight to firelight to lamplight, to electricity providing light and power at all hours – we scaled the freedom to produce, think and create. From word of mouth to the stylus and tablet, to the printing press, telegraph, phone, computer, smartphone – we scaled freedom of learning and knowledge.

Now, with AI, innovation is poised to scale human ingenuity itself – the sum of our freedoms to learn and know, think, create and produce. As  has written, we are at the doorstep of the next leap in prosperity, the Intelligence Age. But we must ensure that people have _freedom of intelligence_, by which we mean the freedom to access and benefit _from_ AI as it advances, protected _from_ both autocratic powers that would take people’s freedoms away, and layers of laws and bureaucracy that would prevent our realizing them.

More than 400 million people around the world are using ChatGPT, powered by OpenAI's most advanced research, to ideate, discover and break through beyond what we’re currently capable of doing on our own.

Globally, the vast majority of these users are young; in the U.S., one-third of our users self-report to being between ages 18 to 24. Both young people and their parents see the economic opportunities AI can create, and the Trump administration's AI policies can make these opportunities reality:

- At a time when more than seven in 10 parents in the U.S. believe kids today will be worse off financially than they are, nine in 10 think it's important that their kids learn how to use AI for their future jobs – and eight in 10 say either that isn’t happening today, or they don’t know if it is.
- Three in four college-aged AI users want to use AI in their education and careers. Many are teaching themselves and their friends about AI for lack of their schools providing formal AI education.



In recent weeks, OpenAI has struck partnerships with a dozen U.S. universities, including one with the California State University system, to put ChatGPT in the hands of its 500,000 students and educators across its 23 campuses. With the help of forward-thinking school systems, the scaling of human ingenuity can happen not just one young person at a time, but tens of thousands of young people at a time.

Provided, that is, that we continue to ensure that people have the freedom to access and benefit _from_ AI – which is no longer as certain as it once was, now that America is competing with a  (PRC) determined to overtake us as the global leader on AI by 2030.

The PRC has a number of strategic advantages, including:

**As an authoritarian state, its ability to quickly marshal resources** – data, energy, technical talent and the enormous sums needed to build out its own domestic chip development capacity.



On a global scale, OpenAI believes in America because America believes in innovation. This country always succeeds and prevails when it bets on the ingenuity of its people, and putting AI in the hands of our young people is the best possible way to scale their ingenuity.



**A regulatory strategy that ensures the freedom to innovate:** For innovation to truly create new freedoms, America’s builders, developers and entrepreneurs – our nation’s greatest competitive advantage – must first have the freedom to innovate in the national interest. We propose a holistic approach that enables voluntary partnership between the federal government and the private sector, and neutralizes potential PRC benefit _from_ American AI companies having to comply with overly burdensome state laws.

**A copyright strategy that promotes the freedom to learn:** America’s robust, balanced intellectual property system has long been key to our global leadership on innovation. We propose a copyright strategy that would extend the system’s role into the Intelligence Age by protecting the rights and interests of content creators while also protecting America’s AI leadership and national security. The U.S. government can secure Americans’ freedom to learn _from_ AI, and , by preserving American AI models’ ability to learn _from_ copyrighted material.

**An ambitious government adoption strategy:** Advancing democratic AI around the world starts with ensuring that the U.S. government itself sets an example of governments using AI to keep their people safe, prosperous and free. With the PRC progressing toward ambitious targets for AI adoption across its public administration, security and military, the U.S. government should modernize its processes to safely deploy frontier AI tools at the pace of the private sector and with the efficiency Americans deserve.

 because America believes in innovation. This country always succeeds and prevails when it bets on the ingenuity of its people, and putting AI in the hands of our young people is the best possible way to scale their ingenuity.


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