OpenAI’s proposals for the U.S. AI Action Plan

Source: OpenAI Date: 2025-03-13 URL: https://openai.com/global-affairs/openai-proposals-for-the-us-ai-action-plan

Summary

Title-only: OpenAI’s formal policy submission to the US government’s AI Action Plan process — a structured set of recommendations for how the US should approach AI governance, investment, and competitiveness. March 2025 is the early Trump administration period when AI policy was being actively shaped and OpenAI had strong White House access post-Stargate. The submission likely covers: AI infrastructure investment priorities, export controls on frontier models, regulatory approaches that favor domestic AI development, and immigration policy for AI talent.

Implications

The AI policy lobbying thread. OpenAI’s formal policy submission to the US government is a significant governance act — it’s not just a company having an opinion on regulation, it’s OpenAI positioning itself as a participant in US AI policy formation. The content of the submission reflects OpenAI’s regulatory interests: standards that favor well-resourced incumbents, export controls that disadvantage Chinese competitors, and infrastructure investment that benefits the companies building the infrastructure OpenAI depends on. Policy participation at this level is one of the main returns on OpenAI’s Stargate investment in government relations.

The “American AI leadership” framing. March 2025 proposals to the AI Action Plan are framed in the nationalist competitiveness terms that the Trump administration favors — AI as a strategic asset for US global leadership rather than a technology to be governed for safety. OpenAI’s proposal likely aligns with this framing, emphasizing US AI dominance over China rather than multilateral safety coordination. This is a deliberate choice about which regulatory coalition to join, and it positions OpenAI in tension with European-style AI governance frameworks and some domestic safety advocates.