Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence (Executive Order 14365)

Record US-20 · Executive Order 14365; 90 FR 58499 (FR Doc. 2025-23092)

Issued by: The White House (President Donald J. Trump)
Jurisdiction: United States
Level · region: National · North America
Published / adopted: 2025-12-11
In force: 2025-12-11
Language: English
Official identifier: Executive Order 14365; 90 FR 58499 (FR Doc. 2025-23092)

Summary

Sets a policy of a 'minimally burdensome' national AI framework and acts against state AI laws until one exists. The Attorney General must set up an AI Litigation Task Force to challenge conflicting state AI laws; Commerce must publish an evaluation identifying 'onerous' ones and bar states with them from BEAD non-deployment funds as far as federal law allows; agencies must assess whether to condition discretionary grants. The FCC is to consider a preemptive federal reporting and disclosure standard, and the FTC must say when state laws requiring changes to truthful AI outputs are preempted. A recommended preemption law must spare state child-safety, AI infrastructure and procurement laws.

Safety topics

transparency & labellingchild safetyaccountability & liability

Status notes

Signed 11 December 2025 and published in the Federal Register on 16 December 2025 (90 FR 58499). The order gave 30 days for the AI Litigation Task Force and 90 days (to about 11 March 2026) for the Commerce evaluation of state AI laws, the BEAD Policy Notice and the FTC policy statement; the FCC proceeding is due within 90 days of the Commerce evaluation. The Attorney General established the Task Force by memorandum of 9 January 2026, chaired by the Attorney General or a designee with the Associate Attorney General as vice chair. The order cites a new Colorado law banning 'algorithmic discrimination' (SB 24-205, US-CO-01); on 24 April 2026 the Department of Justice moved to intervene in xAI's suit against that law, alleging that it violates the Equal Protection Clause. The FTC's proposed policy statement on the suppression of accuracy in AI systems of 1 July 2026 (US-24) says the order directs the Commission to issue it. The White House's legislative recommendations of March 2026 (US-22) set out the preemption that section 8 asks for.

Sources

Open the official source https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-12-16/pdf/2025-23092.pdf

Secondary source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/eliminating-state-law-obstruction-of-national-artificial-intelligence-policy/

Local copy

Archived. Last attempt 2026-10-17 22:12:12 UTC

Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/US-20/2026-10-17/official.pdf

Retrieved 2026-10-17 22:12:18 UTC

SHA-256 5a557f9a153f1f40c7bd885b660ed81f1b26d55a6363b778943dfaa65565e0cb

Secondary source (third-party copy, not published) archive/US-20/2026-10-17/secondary.html

Retrieved 2026-10-17 22:12:22 UTC

SHA-256 548ad019b473cdc9976cf7c07e68c8be425c8c7abd99a9d81ab23bbea4ecd4ec

Verification

The instrument's own official text, or an official register, was stored and confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-18 · official-url-fetched

Recheck of 17 Oct 2026: federalregister.gov still returns a CAPTCHA page to the archiver (stored copies of 11 and 17 Oct 2026), so official_url is now the GPO Federal Register PDF on govinfo.gov, stored in this run (the same file as the eo-14365.pdf linked from the White House page). It confirms the title, EO 14365, the 11 Dec 2025 signature, 90 FR 58499-58501 (FR Doc. 2025-23092) of 16 Dec 2025 and the provisions; the White House text of the order, also stored in this run and now secondary_url, adds the President's name. The implementation notes rest on the Attorney General's memorandum of 9 Jan 2026, the DOJ press release of 24 Apr 2026 and the FTC's proposed policy statement of 1 Jul 2026, all stored in this run; the archiver flagged the DOJ release page for review because its title appears little in the text, but the stored text is the release itself. The earlier notes' statements on the Commerce list (not made public, per secondary sources), the 99-1 Senate vote on the moratorium, H.R. 5388 and the absence of a preemption statute rested on law-firm alerts and Axios and were removed (see open_questions). The summary now states the grant and FCC provisions as the order words them.

Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-18: 11 field(s) supported.

History

2026-10-18related: [{"slug": "us-national-ai-legislative-framework-2026", "id": "US-22"}, {"slug": → [{"slug": "us-national-ai-legislative-framework-2026", "id": "US-22"}, {"slug": — two-way link added: US-16, US-CO-02, US-TX-01 link(s) to US-202026-10-18-fix-related-links · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-18notes: Signed 11 Dec 2025; published 16 Dec 2025. Implementation: (1) The AG memo of 9 → Signed 11 December 2025 and published in the Federal Register on 16 December 202 — rewritten: deadlines from the order; the Task Force memo, the DOJ intervention in the Colorado case and the FTC statement from official sources stored in this run; items resting only on unstored secondary sources removed2026-10-17-recheck-north-america-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-18summary: Seeks a 'minimally burdensome' national AI standard and targets state AI laws. I → Sets a policy of a 'minimally burdensome' national AI framework and acts against — the order has agencies assess whether to condition discretionary grants and the FCC consider a standard; the earlier summary said the order itself conditions the grants and directs the standard2026-10-17-recheck-north-america-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-18secondary_url: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-12-16/html/2025-23092.htm → https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/eliminating-state-law-ob — the White House text of the order (stored in this run), with the President's signature; the GovInfo HTML it replaces duplicates the new official_url2026-10-17-recheck-north-america-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-18official_url: https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2025-23092 → https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-12-16/pdf/2025-23092.pdf — federalregister.gov serves the archiver only a CAPTCHA page; the GPO Federal Register PDF on govinfo.gov is the order's official publication and was stored in this run2026-10-17-recheck-north-america-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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FTC Proposed AI Accuracy Policy Statement United States · Draft / proposed

Colorado AI Act (2024) Colorado (US) · Superseded

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New York RAISE Act New York (US) · Adopted, not yet in force

FRONTIER Act United States · Draft / proposed

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Colorado ADMT Act (2026) Colorado (US) · Adopted, not yet in force

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Citation

The White House (President Donald J. Trump). Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence (Executive Order 14365) [Executive Order 14365; 90 FR 58499 (FR Doc. 2025-23092)]. 2025-12-11. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-12-16/pdf/2025-23092.pdf. Status: In force; verified 2026-10-18 (level A). Local copy archive/US-20/2026-10-17/official.pdf retrieved 2026-10-17 22:12:18 UTC, SHA-256 5a557f9a153f1f40c7bd885b660ed81f1b26d55a6363b778943dfaa65565e0cb. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record US-20.

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