Executive Order on Removing Barriers To American Leadership In Artificial Intelligence

• Authority: Executive Office of the President
• Parent authority: Federal government
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. regulations, executive orders, and agency policies
• Most recent activity: Enacted
• Most recent activity date: 2025-01-23

Risk subdomain coverage

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the risk subdomain are described.

• Competitive dynamics
• Governance failure

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

This document has minimal to no coverage of specific AI risk domains. It is primarily a policy revocation order that focuses on removing existing AI regulations rather than addressing specific AI risks. The document does not substantively engage with technical safety concerns, discrimination, privacy, misinformation, or other specific risk categories from the taxonomy.

Sector coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the sector are explicitly described.

• Public Administration (excl. National Security)

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the sector are described.

• National Security

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This Executive Order does not govern AI use in specific economic sectors. It is an internal government directive that applies to executive branch agencies and officials, directing them to revoke previous AI policies and develop a new action plan. The document governs Public Administration (federal executive agencies) but does not regulate AI applications in private sector industries.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding Executive Order issued by the President of the United States with legal authority under the Constitution and federal law. It contains mandatory directives to executive agencies with specific timelines and enforcement through executive authority.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Executive Office of the President; The President of the United States
• Summary: The document is issued by the President under constitutional and statutory authority, as indicated in the opening clause and signature section.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Executive departments and agencies; Assistant to the President for Science and Technology (APST); Special Advisor for AI and Crypto; Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (APNSA); Assistant to the President for Economic Policy; Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy; Director of the Office of Management and Budget
• Summary: The order applies to and directs actions by various executive branch officials and agencies. It requires them to review, revise, and rescind policies stemming from the revoked Executive Order 14110.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Assistant to the President for Science and Technology (APST); Special Advisor for AI and Crypto; Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (APNSA); Director of the Office of Management and Budget; The President
• Summary: The APST, Special Advisor for AI and Crypto, and APNSA are designated to coordinate implementation and review compliance. The OMB Director is tasked with revising specific memoranda. Ultimate enforcement authority rests with the President.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Assistant to the President for Science and Technology (APST); Special Advisor for AI and Crypto; Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (APNSA)
• Summary: The APST, Special Advisor for AI and Crypto, and APNSA are tasked with reviewing agency actions and identifying inconsistencies with the new policy, which constitutes a monitoring function.

AI Lifecycle Stages

Lifecycle stages covered by the documents, as defined in the OECD Framework for the Classification of AI Systems

No lifecycle stages identified.

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document does not explicitly address specific AI lifecycle stages. It is a high-level policy directive focused on revoking previous AI governance measures and developing a new action plan for AI dominance. There are no detailed provisions relating to planning, data collection, model development, validation, deployment, or monitoring of AI systems.

Technical Scope

Terms relating to technical scope that are mentioned or implicitly referenced in the document

• AI Systems

Technical Scope Summary

The document references 'artificial intelligence' or 'AI' generally and provides a statutory definition, but does not explicitly mention or define specific technical categories such as AI models, AI systems, frontier AI, general purpose AI, foundation models, generative AI, predictive AI, open-weight models, or compute thresholds.