White House Releases National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence

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On March 20, 2026, the White House released a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence (the “Framework”), outlining policy recommendations to guide Congress in developing a unified federal approach to artificial intelligence (“AI”) legislation and regulation. The policy recommendations are consistent with what the Trump Administration has been signaling about its views for some time—that the proliferation of state AI laws is creating barriers to innovation, that there needs to be some national standard governing AI, and that there are particular areas in which Congress should act in order to protect individuals from potential individual and economic harms that could be caused by the continued adoption of AI technologies.

Last summer, the Administration urged Congress to adopt a temporary federal “moratorium” preempting certain state AI laws, but Congress ultimately declined to pursue that approach. Shortly thereafter, in December 2025, the Administration issued Executive Order 14365, Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence (often referred to as the “One Rule” Executive Order)—which we wrote about here—seeking to curtail the impact and continued proliferation of state AI regulation. Among other elements, the One Rule Executive Order directed the Department of Justice to establish an “AI Litigation Task Force” and instructed federal agencies to assess whether discretionary funding programs could be used to discourage certain types of state AI regulation. Notably, the One Rule Executive Order also committed the Administration to work with Congress to develop a federal legislative framework that would replace most categories of state-level AI laws with a unified national standard. The Framework released on March 20 follows up on that commitment by outlining the Administration’s preferred approach to federal AI legislation, providing directions on the key areas that any federal legislation should…

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