White House releases national AI policy framework

Mar 20, 2026 - 02:56 PM
A robot and and a human hand touch over an image reading AI

The White House today released its national policy framework on artificial intelligence. The framework includes several recommendations for Congress, including establishing regulatory sandboxes to foster AI application development, providing resources to make federal data accessible to industry, and a proposal to not create new federal rulemaking bodies to regulate AI. It urges Congress to support the development and deployment of sector-specific AI applications through existing regulatory mechanisms.  

 

Additionally, the framework includes workforce-specific recommendations for Congress, such as expanding federal efforts to study trends in task realignment driven by AI to inform future workforce policies. Finally, the framework also calls for Congress to establish policies to preempt state laws that impose undue burden but not preempt otherwise lawful state regulations related to child safety, zoning for data centers and state government procurement of AI.

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