Executive Order 14179 is the Trump administration's opening AI policy action, signed January 23, 2025. It revokes the prior Biden administration's EO 14110, directs an immediate review of all regulations, policies, and agency actions taken under that order, and orders the development of a new AI Action Plan within 180 days.
| Signed | January 23, 2025 |
| Published | January 31, 2025 (90 FR 8741) |
| President | Donald Trump (47th) |
| Primary effect | Revokes EO 14110; orders comprehensive review of all Biden-era AI actions |
Stated policy
The order's stated rationale is that EO 14110 was an obstacle to innovation and embedded "ideological bias." It establishes a new policy of US AI dominance in service of "human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security," without reference to safety regulation. The order's language directing AI development "free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas" anticipates the procurement rules on "woke AI" later set out in Executive Order 14319 — Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government.
Key provisions
The AI Action Plan is mandated by Section 4. Within 180 days (by approximately July 22, 2025), the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology (APST), the Special Advisor for AI and Crypto, and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (APNSA) are directed to develop and submit to the President an AI Action Plan implementing the new dominance policy. This plan was subsequently produced as America's AI Action Plan (July 2025).
Section 5 directs the rollback of EO 14110. Subsection (a) requires an immediate review of all regulations, policies, and agency actions taken under EO 14110; those inconsistent with the new policy are to be suspended, revised, or rescinded, with all available exemptions provided pending final action. Subsection (b) directs the OMB Director, within 60 days, to revise OMB memoranda M-24-10 and M-24-18 to align with the new policy.
Scope of revocation
The order directly revokes Executive Order 14110 (Executive Order 14110 — Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI, Biden, October 30, 2023), the comprehensive Biden AI executive order covering safety standards, NIST AI RMF integration, and reporting requirements.
Several instruments are not directly addressed by EO 14179 and persist: NIST AI RMF 1.0 (which pre-dates the Biden EO), state AI laws, sector-specific AI regulations (FDA, FTC, EEOC), and the NIST AI 600-1 Generative AI Profile, which was produced under EO 14110 but has independent standing as a NIST publication.
EO 14179 does not affirmatively ban safety measures; it removes the federal mandate for them. It marks the administration's shift away from Biden's safety-first framing toward a competitiveness-first framing. Subsequent orders (EO 14319, EO 14320, EO 14365) set out positive content for "American AI leadership."
Comparison to related orders
| Legislation | Approach | Status |
|---|---|---|
| EO 14110 (Biden) | Safety-first; mandated NIST RMF; AI safety board | Revoked by EO 14179 |
| EO 14179 (Trump) | Revocation + reset; no new affirmative requirements | Active |
| EO 14365 (Trump) | Positive AI policy framework; national AI strategy | Active (supersedes/supplements 14179) |
| America's AI Action Plan | 180-day deliverable mandated by Sec. 4 | Active |
Relationships
- supersedes: Executive Order 14110 — Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI — directly revokes Biden's comprehensive AI EO
- related: Executive Order 14365 — Ensuring a National Policy Framework for AI — the positive-policy successor; EO 14179 cleared the field; EO 14365 builds on it
- related: Executive Order 14319 — Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government — issued same day as EO 14320 (July 2025); companion procurement-values EO
- related: Executive Order 14320 — Promoting the Export of the American AI Technology Stack — companion EO promoting AI exports globally
- related: America's AI Action Plan — the 180-day deliverable this EO mandated
- related: OMB Memorandum M-24-10 — directed for revision by Sec. 5(b)
- related: OMB Memorandum M-24-18 — directed for revision by Sec. 5(b)