Our Letter on the AI Action Plan in the U.S.

Last month, we invited startup founders building AI technologies to join us in influencing the shape of our country’s AI policy following the Trump Administration’s request for input on its AI Action Plan — a framework that will influence the direction of United States federal AI regulation for at least the next four years.

With the help of founders and True Ventures team members, we crafted and sent a letter to Washington D.C. that shares our perspective of what is needed in order to enable AI innovation to thrive in the U.S.

In our letter, which you’re welcome to view in its entirety here, we wanted to emphasize the importance of the startup technology founder to this process: “We urge the Administration to put the people and companies that power innovation-driven technological development in American society — small tech startups and their founders — at the very center of the AI Action Plan.”

To that end, our letter made a number of suggestions to the Administration. We suggested that in crafting the policy, the Administration:

• Understands America’s proven and successful regulatory model for dealing with opportunities and risks of rapid technological change, and embrace it for AI
• Prevents fragmented, multi-state regulation of AI, which will make things very difficult for tech startups
• Encourages the rapid domestic development of this most critical infrastructure through liability protection if warranted, as well as increasing the physical and cyber defense of AI companies through public-private partnerships
• And removes regulatory impediments to abundant, clean energy

We hope us sharing a window into this work inspires founders building AI-native technologies to both advocate for their industries during this exciting wave of innovation — and choose partners at the ready to help bolster AI technologies as well.