Usama Fayyad sees a strong potential in the accent placed by the plan on the tools of update and opening, while noting areas that could benefit from a clearer orientation and a wider collaboration.
President Donald Trump has unveiled his AI action plan for a long time expected this week, describing a range of regulatory changes aimed at accelerating the development of artificial intelligence in the United States.
The 23 -page plan adopts a three -stea approach focused on international innovation, infrastructure and deployment and security. He underlines the need for the United States to “achieve world domination in artificial intelligence” by removing what the Trump administration calls “unnecessary regulatory barriers that hinder the private sector”.
Usama Fayyad, main vice-prevail of the University of Northeastern for AI and data strategy, says that there is a lot to love in the plan-in particular its emphasis on the update of workers and its support for Open-Source models.
“He talks about the education of AI users, and that includes small businesses,” he said. “This part is good – the idea that we must pay attention to the way AI is applied, and we must educate our population to understand how to use it faster, better. I also like the fact that they also think about how AI could really speed up and change science, in addition to accelerating and changing business. ”
Fayyad says that many recommendations from the plan are “reasonable”. However, he says that there are opportunities to refine certain areas to improve the impact. For example, he says that the development of AI as a global competition could be counterproductive.
“Using language as” we will dominate “, I believe, will disorient our allies and probably polarize our enemies more.
He also notes that the plan includes a recommendation that suggests deleting references to disinformation, climate change and diversity, capital and the inclusion of the IA risk management of the National Institute and Technology. These are aligned with the recent executive orders of Trump on the government use of AI.
In case of disinformation, Fayyad says that there is a critical problem.
“We have to improve to filter it because it is a priority for humanity anyway,” he says. “One of the greatest threats of AI – bad actors being able to generate many types of corroborated disinformation.”
He says the same applies to climate change.
“I think AI can do a lot to help us counter climate change, to help us counter some of its effects on decarbonization or reducing carbon use,” he said. “These are problems that involve a lot of data, many measures of many sensors. AI technology and AI algorithms are really good to help humans cope with these very large data sets. ”
Fayyad says he has fewer concerns about diversity, equity and inclusion, which, according to him, can be addressed through social and legal processes.
“But the congress or no legislator can never issue a law which says:” Well, the increase in temperatures on the planet will cease and begin to reverse “. You can say that whatever you want.
He also appreciates the objective of building models of “neutral and impartial” AI, although he wonders if these standards should be set at the presidential level.
Fayyad notes that the plan is focused on large -scale data centers could increase energy demands.
“This is the field where the United States is missing,” he says. “There was a big lesson to learn from the Deepseek episode, and the fact that many small models can actually do more, are much cheaper than these very large border or foundation models. This trend of becoming greater, larger, larger with more energy consumption does not show a corresponding advantage.”
As with previous efforts, says Fayyad, the implementation will be the key. When former President Joe Biden published an executive decree on IA security and security in 2025 – that Trump later canceled – Fayyad made a similar point.
“The devil will be in the details,” he says, referring to whether the recommendations of the new plan will be funded and made.
“It is a complete practical plan that has several very encouraging things, but a few failures,” explains Fayyad.