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Wide Acclaim for President Trump’s Visionary AI Action Plan – The White House

Yesterday, the White House unveiled the Trump Administration’s transformative strategy to propel the United States into a new era of artificial intelligence dominance. Under President Donald J. Trump’s leadership, this groundbreaking blueprint establishes core tenets to accelerate innovation, fortify essential infrastructure, and assert U.S. leadership in diplomacy and security — cementing our position as the global AI powerhouse.
As Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang put it: “America’s unique advantage that no country could possibly have is President Trump.”
The AI Action Plan was immediately hailed across the technology industry:
AI Innovation Association President Steve Kinard: “President Trump’s AI Action Plan is a bold path to global American leadership. Every American citizen, company, university and institution has a role to play. By prioritizing American workers, free speech, and security, it positions the U.S. to win the AI race and usher in a new era of prosperity and strength. The AI Innovation Association stands ready to support this initiative.”
Alliance for the Future: “The White House just advanced a more unified national AI strategy. States with clear, effective AI policies will be better positioned for federal support. A strong step toward alignment, innovation, and leadership.”
Amazon: “Amazon supports & continues to work at the state and federal level to establish consistent standards that promote the secure, responsible development of AI. We look forward to continued collaboration to fully realize AI’s potential in driving economic growth & tech advancement.”
American Beverage: “We applaud President Trump’s action plan to ensure America’s continued leadership in the global pursuit of artificial intelligence innovation and infrastructure. Maintaining our edge in this technology is important to the growth of American manufacturing and the good-paying jobs manufacturers provide in communities across the country.”
Chevron Corporation Chairman and CEO Mike Wirth: “President Trump’s American AI Action Plan is a bold and necessary step to ensure the United States leads the next great technological revolution. As I’ve said before, America has triumphed in every industrial era—from steel to energy—and we have the power and leadership to do it again in artificial intelligence. This plan recognizes that AI innovation doesn’t happen in a vacuum—it demands reliable, scalable energy and infrastructure. By streamlining permitting, investing in data centers, and unleashing American energy, the President is laying the foundation for a future where AI strengthens our economy, our national security, and our global leadership. Chevron stands ready to help power this future.”
American Edge Project CEO Doug Kelly: “President Trump’s AI Action Plan is a giant leap forward in the race to secure American leadership in artificial intelligence. By prioritizing innovation, infrastructure, talent, and global reach, the plan confronts key barriers to American competitiveness, begins to fill long-standing gaps in our national strategy, and helps position the U.S. to beat China in this high-stakes tech race … Time is of the essence: China has had a national plan for global AI leadership since 2017, and is executing it relentlessly with talent, infrastructure, state-backed investment, and international influence. This is our moonshot moment. Now is the time for the country to rally together behind a shared, national mission to win the AI race. The stakes could not be higher.”
American Innovators Network: “The American Innovators Network (AIN), a national organization representing American Little Tech companies, commends President Trump and his administration for their bold and decisive action to counter China’s growing influence in the global AI landscape. The new guidelines and recommendations unveiled today mark a pivotal moment in securing America’s dominance in this critical technological race, and we are grateful for President Trump’s leadership in prioritizing policies that empower innovation and strengthen our national competitiveness.”
American Society of Association Executives President and CEO Michelle Mason: “President Trump’s Artificial Intelligence Action Plan strategically positions the United States as a global leader in the development and deployment of AI technology. ASAE applauds the focus on industry-driven training programs that equip workers with the skills they need to be successful in the workforce of tomorrow. ASAE’s members are eager to support efforts to create these training programs, and we encourage continued collaboration between the federal government and the association community.”
Americans for Prosperity Chief Government Affairs Officer Brent Gardner: “President Trump’s AI Action Plan will ensure America leads the world in innovation, economic freedom, and technological progress. By removing regulatory roadblocks, empowering innovative small business owners, and embracing open-source development, this plan puts the ingenuity of the American people—not bureaucrats—in the driver’s seat of the AI revolution. This move by the White House rightly course-corrects four years of Biden-era efforts to centrally control AI development and stifle American innovation. We applaud the administration’s commitment to protecting free speech and ensuring private-sector breakthroughs aren’t halted by burdensome regulation. It’s now time for Congress to work alongside the administration to codify these efforts in order to create generational change that will enable AI adoption across industries, remove permitting barriers to build infrastructure, and unleash innovation.”
Anthropic: “Today, the White House released ‘Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan’—a comprehensive strategy to maintain America’s advantage in AI development. We are encouraged by the plan’s focus on accelerating AI infrastructure and federal adoption, as well as strengthening safety testing and security coordination. Many of the plan’s recommendations reflect Anthropic’s response to the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s (OSTP) prior request for information … The alignment between many of our recommendations and the AI Action Plan demonstrates a shared understanding of AI’s transformative potential and the urgent actions needed to sustain American leadership. We look forward to working with the Administration to implement these initiatives while ensuring appropriate attention to catastrophic risks and maintaining strong export controls. Together, we can ensure that powerful AI systems are developed safely in America, by American companies, reflecting American values and interests.”
Arm: “We commend the Administration’s actions to unleash investment in AI, semiconductors, and the energy to power it. Arm, together with our partners, is working rapidly to bring AI to all forms of computing. Today’s announcements will accelerate AI data center and cloud infrastructure deployment in particular, while advancing plans to promote exports of the U.S. AI stack and ensuring American technology innovation. We look forward to continuing to work with the Administration as it enacts and builds on today’s actions.”
Box CEO Aaron Levie: “America’s AI Action Plan is quite strong. It has a clear a mission to win the AI race and accelerate the development and use of AI by removing roadblocks or aiding adoption. Importantly, it focuses on the positive benefits of AI, which we’re all seeing every day.”
Business Roundtable: “BRT supports the @WhiteHouse AI Action Plan’s efforts to strengthen infrastructure, advance permitting reform, invest in workforce development and develop clear frameworks that empower US businesses to accelerate AI innovation and adoption.”
Business Software Alliance CEO Victoria Espinel: “The White House AI Action Plan offers a roadmap for the United States’ AI future anchored on the adoption of technology. The Business Software Alliance welcomes ‘America’s AI Action Plan’ for addressing a range of issues including talent and workforce development, infrastructure and data, and AI governance that serve as pillars for successful AI adoption and US competitiveness. BSA appreciates the Action Plan’s commitment to creating the essential conditions for widespread AI adoption. The Action Plan advances key BSA recommendations for AI talent, including developing an AI skills curriculum, improving access to training resources, and leveraging real-time workforce data. It emphasizes the development of critical infrastructure and reliable energy resources necessary to scale AI deployment. The Action Plan also reinforces the roles of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) and NIST in the development of standards and evaluation tools, a foundation for both domestic AI governance and in promoting international collaboration on AI. Additionally, the Action Plan streamlines government procurement processes, enabling public-sector agencies to more effectively access and adopt cutting-edge commercial AI solutions.”
Center for Data Innovation Senior Policy Manager Hodan Omaar: “The AI Action Plan shows the Trump administration is serious about winning the global AI race. It marks a clear evolution from the President’s 2019 AI initiative and reflects just how dramatically the global AI landscape has shifted over the past six years. The plan rightly recognizes that beating China demands a comprehensive effort—unleashing infrastructure to fuel model development, removing regulatory frictions that slow development and deployment, and promoting the export of American AI technology. These steps put the United States on a path not only to benefit from AI today, but to remain the global leader in the future.”
Connected Nation Chairman and CEO Tom Ferree: “This marks a transformational moment for American innovation. The release of the National AI Action Plan signals to the world that the United States intends not only to compete—but to lead—in the global race for artificial intelligence. We applaud the Trump Administration’s bold and comprehensive strategy, which rightly prioritizes accelerating innovation, unleashing infrastructure investment, and ensuring our nation’s AI capabilities are second to none. Connected Nation enthusiastically supports the plan’s focus on building out data center capacity, fast-tracking permitting, and expanding our skilled workforce. These are critical steps toward positioning the U.S. as the undisputed hub of next-generation computing.”
Consumer Choice Center Head of Emerging Technology Policy James Czerniawski: “The AI Action Plan is a bold vision for the future of ensuring AI leadership by the Trump administration. The Golden Age of America is made possible when we position our innovators to be as successful as possible, ensuring American consumers can benefit from the AI revolution happening on our shores. The economy of tomorrow starts with the building blocks laid out in this action plan. The provision which reviews rulemaking of the Federal Trade Commission is especially encouraging, quashing legal theories that would complicate or slow American consumers gaining access to AI technologies. This is a world of difference from the hostile regulatory approach of the Biden Administration, and a welcome breath of fresh air for consumers who want cutting-edge tech.”
Consumer Technology Association CEO Gary Shapiro: “Congratulations to @POTUS and the @WhiteHouse team on an AI Action Plan recognizing the U.S. must win the global AI race. The plan cuts red tape for innovators, boosts AI adoption across sectors, supports a future-focused AI workforce, and advances the American AI tech stack as the foundation for global tech growth.”
Data Center Coalition President Josh Levi: “The Data Center Coalition thanks President Trump for releasing Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan—a bold framework to ensure the United States remains the undisputed global leader in artificial intelligence. The administration’s plan recognizes that developing a robust domestic data center industry is vital to promoting U.S. national security, global economic competitiveness, and continued American AI dominance … Today’s announcement is a major step forward, and we look forward to continuing to work with the administration and lawmakers to ensure the U.S. remains at the forefront of global innovation and digital resilience.”
Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell: “Proud to see the White House AI Action Plan accelerating innovation, building home‑grown AI infrastructure, and strengthening America’s security. 🇺🇸 Dell Technologies is all‑in—ready to power U.S. ingenuity, create jobs, and keep us leading the future. 🚀”
GE Vernova Chief Corporate Officer, Chief Sustainability Officer, and Head of Government Affairs Roger Martella: “It was energizing to see the White House release its action plan today on how the U.S. can make significant strides with leading on #ArtificialIntelligence and #datacenters for the nation and its partners, advancing strategic efforts on a most critical part of the #innovation economy.”
Gecko Robotics: “Gecko Robotics welcomes the AI action plan published by the White House today. The United States must win the global AI race and will only do so by using artificial intelligence to supercharge energy production itself. At the same time, it is critical that we collect and use high-fidelity data to feed AI models, and we remain at the forefront of leading this charge.”
General Catalyst Institute President Teresa Carlson: “Today, the Trump Administration unveiled their widely-anticipated AI Action Plan. Upon review, I am encouraged by their pro-growth approach that prioritizes American innovation, national security, and federal leadership over bureaucratic barriers. This policy was not crafted in a vacuum. It was part of an inclusive process, where earlier this year the General Catalyst Institute submitted views on behalf of startups as to how best deepen America’s AI leadership through transformative technologies.”
Heritage Foundation Center for Technology and the Human Person Acting Director Wesley Hodges: “The AI Action Plan is a call for a new industrial renaissance, an ambitious strategy that the Administration should be commended for leading. It charts the course for building significant domestic compute infrastructure—from expanding energy capacity, to constructing data centers and increasing domestic advanced semiconductor manufacturing. At the same time, the plan also emphasizes that American AI technology must be developed free of ideological bias, and ensure working families are benefited and not left behind. We look forward to supporting the administration’s work to align this technology with human flourishing.”
IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna: “IBM applauds the White House for its bold and timely AI Action Plan, which prioritizes open innovation, strengthens U.S. technological leadership, and proposes a supportive regulatory environment for AI development and deployment. The plan is a critical step towards harnessing AI for sustained economic growth and national competitiveness.”
Information Technology Industry Council President and CEO Jason Oxman: “President Trump’s AI Action Plan presents a blueprint to usher in a new era of U.S. AI dominance. The administration’s vision takes essential steps to ensure the U.S. can win the global AI race by prioritizing U.S. energy production and infrastructure development to power AI’s growth, promoting U.S. AI leadership internationally by supporting the export of the full stack of American AI technologies to partners and allies, and accelerating adoption of AI across the public and private sectors. Importantly, the President’s Plan includes key directives for agencies and communicates clear U.S. policy objectives that will encourage widespread adoption and fuel U.S. technological and economic competitiveness. As agencies begin implementing the President’s plan, we encourage policymakers to invest in modernizing government technology and to leverage industry’s deep expertise to maintain America’s AI leadership.”
Internet Works Executive Director Peter Chandler: “As the AI race accelerates globally, it’s encouraging to see policymakers recognize the need for bold investment in innovation, adoption, and infrastructure. Middle Tech companies, many of whom are deployers and integrators of AI tools, are essential to ensuring that AI benefits reach small businesses, everyday users, and communities across the country. We welcome the Trump Administration’s emphasis on modernizing our digital and energy infrastructure and expanding support for open, responsible AI development and adoption. To win the AI race, we need policy frameworks that are risk-based and right-sized—supporting trust, safety, and competition across the full tech ecosystem. Internet Works stands ready to partner with leaders at every level to shape an AI future that’s secure, innovative, and built for everyone.”
Lightspeed Venture Partners Founder Ravi Mhatre: “In AI, you either own the frontier or get commoditized. The AI Action Plan helps ensure that America continues to build by streamlining regulation, identifying opportunities for AI to scale, and getting more energy online. It will help ensure America owns the future of AI while others still try to catch up to what we built yesterday.”
Lumen Technologies: “Lumen Technologies supports the Administration’s AI Action Plan and its call for a unified framework to accelerate AI innovation and next-generation fiber infrastructure deployment across the U.S. As a leading networking services company building the digital backbone for AI, Lumen is investing heavily to meet the demands of AI-driven enterprises and public-sector modernization and understands the criticality of secure, high-performance networks. We applaud the efforts included in the plan by the FCC, OMB and OSTP that aim to reduce regulatory barriers to innovation, modernize permitting, and streamline the NEPA review process for critical fiber and data center infrastructure. Winning the AI future requires clear, consistent policies that accelerate nationwide deployment of network infrastructure and public-private partnerships that turn this plan into reality. Lumen stands ready to work with federal and state agencies to ensure America leads the AI revolution.”
Meta Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan: “The AI race is about the future of US economic power & national security. President Trump’s strong leadership on AI will help us keep our foot on the gas. We’re in the middle of a fierce competition with China for AI leadership. The White House’s AI Action Plan is a bold step to create the right regulatory environment for companies like ours to invest in America. @Meta is proud to be investing hundreds of billions of dollars in job-creating infrastructure across the US, including state-of-the-art data centers, creating American jobs in the process.”
Micron Technology President and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra: “We support the White House’s AI Action Plan, which underscores the strategic importance of U.S. semiconductor manufacturing as critical infrastructure for the global AI economy. Memory is foundational to AI — powering technologies across data centers, automotive, telecommunications, defense, and consumer electronics. As the only U.S.-based memory manufacturer and a technology leader, Micron is investing $200 billion in manufacturing and R&D to create 90,000 American jobs and help ensure U.S. leadership in the AI era through a resilient and secure supply chain.”
National Association of Manufacturers President and CEO Jay Timmons: “Reflecting President Trump’s vision for the United States to lead on artificial intelligence, the White House’s AI Action Plan underscores what manufacturers across the country already know: AI is no longer a future ambition—it is already central to modern manufacturing. For years, manufacturers have been developing and deploying AI-driven technologies—machine vision, digital twins, robotics and more—to make shop floors safer, strengthen supply chains and drive growth.”
National Association of Realtors EVP and Chief Advocacy Officer Shannon McGahn: “We applaud the administration’s release of Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan, which reinforces the U.S. as a global leader in this transformative technology. It’s especially encouraging to see real estate infrastructure recognized as a cornerstone of America’s future. Housing is essential to economic strength and innovation, and we urge policymakers to apply the plan’s smart permitting strategies to help tackle today’s housing supply crisis.”
National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors: “The National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors (NAW) applauds President Trump’s newly released AI Action Plan, which outlines a comprehensive and forward-looking approach to federal artificial intelligence (AI) policy. We are particularly encouraged to see several of NAW’s recommendations—submitted during the Administration’s Request for Information process in March—reflected in the plan … NAW looks forward to continuing to work with the Administration to ensure the outcomes from the Action Plan support further AI deployment and adoption across the wholesale distribution industry.”
National Mining Association President and CEO Rich Nolan: “The administration’s recognition of the importance of existing power plants and prioritization of safeguarding them is clear acknowledgement that the coal fleet is essential to U.S. AI leadership. For the U.S. to guide and shape the AI revolution – and seize this tremendous opportunity – we need a grid and energy resources capable of shouldering the enormous new electricity demand now on our doorstep. Prioritizing the ongoing operation of essential coal plants – with the capacity to meet increased demand – combined with reforming our power markets around the goal of grid stability articulated in this action plan puts us firmly on the path for success.”
NetChoice Director of Policy Patrick Hedger: “NetChoice applauds the White House’s AI Action Plan overall and is encouraged to see the focus on red tape reduction and investment in America’s future. From unleashing energy to embracing regulatory humility and ensuring our AI systems are adopted around the world, we look forward to working with the President to usher in the Golden Age of American innovation. The difference between the Trump administration and Biden’s is effectively night and day. The Biden administration did everything it could to command and control the fledgling but critical sector. That is a failed model, evident in the lack of a serious tech sector of any kind in the European Union and its tendency to rush to regulate anything that moves. The Trump AI Action Plan, by contrast, is focused on asking where the government can help the private sector, but otherwise, get out of the way.”
Oil and Gas Workers Association: “President Trump’s EO for rapid buildout of data centers means more demand for reliable, affordable natural gas. Demand = Drilling … Drilling = Jobs … Thank you, @POTUS!”
Palantir: “AI is the birthright of the country that harnessed the atom and put a man on the moon. With today’s AI Action Plan, the Trump Administration has written the source code for the next American century. Palantir is proud to support it.”
QTS Co-CEO Tag Greason: “The Trump Administration’s AI Action Plan will advance efforts to ensure the United States maintains leadership in AI, including both technology development and critical digital infrastructure. As the digital infrastructure leader, QTS is focused on responsibly and sustainably building the future of our country and economy. We continue to listen and engage with the communities we call home with a steadfast commitment to providing job opportunities, fostering economic growth, working with local suppliers, and operating as trusted neighbors. This historic action and investment will directly benefit communities where we are developing data centers for AI.”
Salesforce Inc. President and Chief Legal Officer Sabastian Niles: “We welcome the Administration’s strong emphasis on AI adoption, workforce readiness, and government modernization in today’s AI Action Plan. Trusted AI will be a cornerstone of national competitiveness, security, and continued American innovation. Salesforce is committed to helping the public and private sectors harness its full potential.”
Siemens USA President and CEO Barbara Humpton: “Excited to join business leaders today for the launch of The White House’s #AIActionPlan boosting American leadership in #AI and innovation to greater heights. Every day, Siemens USA is using #IndustrialAI to revitalize U.S. #manufacturing, build critical #infrastructure, and expand what’s humanly possible for American workers. We’re creating a new industrial tech sector that combines the real and digital worlds, thanks to Industrial AI, digital twins, software-defined automation, and more. Of course, no company can truly lead in AI without a solid foundation of trust. That’s why I was so pleased to see a framework for accelerating innovation while maintaining security included in the AI Action Plan. By focusing on secure infrastructure, industrial R&D, digital transformation, and workforce development, we can help manufacturers of all sizes join the next AI-driven industrial revolution. It’s an exciting time for Industrial AI, and I can’t wait to see where Siemens, our customers, and our partners will go next with this industry-changing technology.”
Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council President and CEO Karen Kerrigan: “America’s AI future is a powerful and positive one that expands opportunities and unlocks new possibilities and industries. U.S. entrepreneurs are the driving force behind AI innovation, and small business owners are already benefitting from transformative AI tools. The possibilities and opportunities are boundless, but the U.S. must continue to lead and win the AI race. ‘America’s AI Action Plan’ lays out a strategy to make that happen. The plan embraces America’s innovative potential and addresses the incentives and hurdles to fully harness innovation, including the human and physical infrastructure required to cement U.S. leadership. SBE Council congratulates President Trump and the White House team for developing an extraordinary AI Action Plan, and we look forward to working with the Administration and Congress on its implementation.”
Society for Human Resource Management: “The President’s plan is not just about technology—but about people. The emphasis is on a worker-first approach that addresses American competitiveness in an AI-driven workforce. The plan reflects a fundamental truth that SHRM has long championed: technology alone does not move the workplace forward—people do.”
Software & Information Industry Association SVP for Global Public Policy Paul Lekas: “The AI Action Plan represents a meaningful strategy to support innovation and security, strengthen U.S. competitiveness, and ensure the benefits of AI are broadly shared. This plan provides the roadmap to cement the United States as the global leader in AI by supporting innovation and security, strengthening U.S. competitiveness, and ensuring the benefits of AI are broadly shared. We’re especially encouraged by the plan’s focus on workforce development and AI literacy as core elements of AI infrastructure. These are key components for building trust and ensuring all communities can participate in and benefit from AI’s potential.”
Special Competitive Studies Project President Ylli Bajraktari: “Building on the foundational work of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI), SCSP has consistently advocated for a comprehensive national strategy to secure America’s technological future. This AI Action Plan provides a critical component for winning the techno-economic competition of the 21st century. It correctly identifies that our national security and economic prosperity, as well as America’s global leadership position, are now intertwined with leadership in AI. We are committed to helping transform this strategic vision into enduring national policy.”
TechNet CEO Linda Moore: “TechNet strongly supports the administration’s AI Action Plan and is especially grateful for their willingness to work with industry to establish best practices. This policy framework takes critical steps towards developing a strong domestic workforce, building critical AI infrastructure, launching public-private partnerships, removing regulatory barriers to innovation, strengthening the domestic AI stack, and enhancing U.S. global AI diplomacy. The AI Action Plan makes clear that countering Chinese influence and securing America’s leadership in the AI race are top priorities for the United States. We look forward to continuing to work closely with the administration on policies that advance AI innovation while safeguarding the public interest and ensuring America’s global AI dominance.”
The James Madison Institute Director of National Strategy Edward Longe: “Trump’s AI action plan isn’t just federal policy—it’s a blueprint state lawmakers should follow immediately to root out the regulatory creep that’s strangling AI, even in red states.”
U.S. Chamber of Commerce EVP and Chief Policy Officer Neil Bradley: “We applaud President Trump and his administration for issuing the AI Action Plan to strengthen U.S. global leadership in artificial intelligence. This forward-looking plan takes steps to accelerate innovation by fixing a regulatory landscape hobbled by conflicting state-level laws and activist-driven overreach, streamlining permitting for critical AI infrastructure, ensuring reliable and affordable energy for consumers and businesses, and advancing U.S. leadership in AI diplomacy. These proposed actions will position the United States to tackle our most pressing challenges and lead the global AI race by setting the gold standard for the development and deployment of responsible, transformative technologies. America is counting on this crucial technology to propel economic growth for all sectors, from small business to energy and health care, and the AI Action Plan presents a roadmap to unlock AI’s full potential. We will work with the administration to help implement this plan and foster a competitive, open, and innovation-driven AI ecosystem.”
USTelecom President and CEO Jonathan Spalter: “The Trump Administration’s AI action plan is a turbo boost for American innovation. From clearing regulatory roadblocks to reforming outdated permitting to doubling down on security, this is the kind of bold leadership we need to win the AI race. But even the best-engineered AI needs a track built for speed—and that’s where fiber comes in. Fiber broadband is the fast lane for America’s AI future: powerful, secure, scalable, and built to go the distance, whether you’re in a big city or a heartland town. Broadband providers are tuned up, fully fueled, and ready to work with the Administration to help America stay a lap ahead in the competition for AI leadership.”
Workday VP of Corporate Affairs Chandler Morse: “Workday has long advocated for federal action that drives critical AI innovation and builds trust. The Administration’s AI Action Plan, announced today, seeks to avoid excessive regulatory hurdles, elevate human potential through targeted and timely reskilling, and accelerate AI adoption at the federal level. This sends a strong message to federal agencies, the U.S. economy, and global stakeholders on the benefits of driving AI competitiveness.”
xAI: “Today’s announcement by the White House is a positive step toward removing regulatory barriers and enabling even faster innovation for the benefit of Americans and for humanity as a whole. We are pleased to see the White House prioritize AI innovation.”
Zoom Chief Global Affairs Officer Josh Kallmer: “Just got back from an inspiring day where I had the opportunity to be part of the conversation around the President’s #AI Action Plan. It was energizing to see so many leaders across industries coming together to talk about the future of AI in the U.S.”
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AI “Can’t Draw a Damn Floor Plan With Any Degree of Coherence” – Common Edge

Recently I began interviewing people for a piece I’m writing about “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Architecture,” a ludicrously broad topic that will at some point require me to home in on a particular aspect of this rapidly changing phenomenon. Before undertaking that process, I spoke with some experts, starting with Phil Bernstein, an architect, educator, and longtime technologist. Bernstein is deputy dean and professor at the Yale School of Architecture, where he teaches courses in professional practice, project delivery, and technology. He previously served as a vice president at Autodesk, where he was responsible for setting the company’s AEC vision and strategy for technology. He writes extensively on issues of architectural practice and technology, and his books include Architecture | Design | Data — Practice Competency in the Era of Computation (Birkhauser, 2018) and Machine Learning: Architecture in the Era of Artificial Intelligence (2nd ed., RIBA, 2025). Our short talk covered a lot of ground: the integration of AI into schools, its obvious shortcomings, and where AI positions the profession.
PB: Phil Bernstein
MCP: Martin C. Pedersem
You’re actively involved in the education of architects, all of them digital natives. How is AI being taught and integrated into the curriculum?
I was just watching a video with a chart that showed how long it took different technologies to get to 100 million users: the telephone, Facebook, and DeepSeek. It was 100 years for the phone, four years for Facebook, two months for Deepseek. Things are moving quickly, almost too quickly, which means you don’t have a lot of time to plan and test pedagogy.
We are trying to do three things here. One, make sure that students understand the philosophical, legal, and disciplinary implications of using these kinds of technologies. I’ll be giving a talk to our incoming students as part of their orientation about the relationship between generative technology, architectural intellectual property, precedent, and academic integrity. And why you’re here to learn: not how to teach algorithms to do things, but to do them yourself. That’s one dimension.
The second dimension is, we’re big believers in making as much technology as we can support and afford available to the students. So we’ve been working with the central campus to provide access to larger platforms, and to make things as available and understandable as we possibly can.
Thirdly, in the classroom, individual studio instructors are taking their own stance on how they want to see the tools used. We taught a studio last year where the students tried to delegate a lot of their design responsibility to algorithms, just to see how it went, right?
Control. You lose a lot of design autonomy when you delegate to an algorithm. We’ve also been teaching a class called “Scales of Intelligence,” which tries to look at this problem from a theory, history, and technological evolution perspective, delving into the implications for practice and design. So it’s a mixed bag of stuff, very much a moving target, because the technology evolves literally during the course of a semester.
I am a luddite, and even I can see it improve in real time.
It’s getting more interesting, minute to minute, very shifting ground. I was on the Yale Provost’s AI Task Force, which was the faculty working group formed a year ago that tried to figure out what we’re doing as a university. Everybody was in the same boat, it’s just some of the boats were tiny, paper boats floating in the bathtub, and some of them were battleships—like the medical school, with more than 50 AI pilots. We’re trying to keep up with that. I don’t know how good a job we’re doing now.
What’s your sense in talking to people in the architecture world? How are they incorporating AI into their firms?
It’s difficult to generalize, because there are a lot of variables: your willingness to experiment, a firm’s internal capabilities, the availability of data, and degree of sophistication. I’ve been arguing that because this technology is expensive and requires a lot of data and investment to figure it out, the real innovation will happen in the big firms.
Everybody’s creating marketing collateral, generating renderings, all that stuff. The diffusion models and large language models, the two things that are widely available—everybody is screwing around with that. The question is, where’s the innovation? And it’s a little early to tell.
The other thing you’ve got to remember is the basic principle of technology adoption in the architectural world, which is: When you figure out a technological advantage, you don’t broadcast it; you keep your advantage to yourself for as long as you can, until somebody else catches up. A recent example: It’s not like there were firms out there helping each other adopt building information modeling.
I guess it’s impossible to project where all this goes in three or five years?
I don’t know. The reigning thesis—I’m simplifying this—is that you can build knowledge from which you can reason inferentially by memorizing all the data in the world and breaking it into a giant probability matrix. I don’t happen to think that thesis is correct. It’s the Connectionists vs. the Symbolic Logic people. I believe that you’re going to need both of these things. But all the money right now is down on the Connectionists, the Sam Altman theory of the world. Some of these things are very useful, but they’re not 100% reliable. And in our world, as architects, reliability is kind of important.
Again, we can’t predict the pace of this, but it’s going to fundamentally change the role of the architect. How do you see that evolving as these tools get more powerful?
Why do you say that? There’s a conclusion in your statement.
I guess, because I’ve talked to a few people. They seem to be using AI now for everything but design. You can do research much faster using AI.
That’s true, but you better check it.
I agree, but isn’t there inevitably a point when the tools become sophisticated enough where they can design buildings?
So, therefore … what?
Where does that leave human architects?
I don’t know that it’s inevitable that machines could design entire buildings well …
It would seem to me that we would be moving toward that.
The essence of my argument is: there are many places where AI is very useful. Where it begins to collapse is when it’s operating in a multivalent environment, trying to integrate multiple streams of both data and logic.
Which would be virtually any architecture project.
Exactly. Certain streams may become more optimized. For instance: If I were a structural engineer right now, I’d be worried, because structural engineering has very clear, robust means of representation, clear rules of measurement. The bulk of the work can be routinized. So they’re massively exposed. But these diffusion models right now can’t draw a damn floor plan with any degree of coherence. A floor plan is an abstraction of a much more complicated phenomenon. It’s going to be a while before these systems are able to do the most important things that architects do, which is make judgments, exercise experience, make tradeoffs, and take responsibility for what they do.

Where do you fall on the AI-as-job-obliterator, AI-as-job-creator debate?
For purposes of this discussion, let’s stipulate that artificial general intelligence that can do anything isn’t in the foreseeable future, because once that happens, the whole economic proposition of the world collapses. When that happens, we’re in a completely different world. And that won’t just be a problem for architects. So, if that’s not going to happen any time soon, then you have two sets of questions. Question one: In the near term, does AI provide productivity gains in a way that reduces the need for staff in an architect’s office?
That may be the question I’m asking …
OK, in the near term, maybe we won’t need as many marketing people. You won’t need any rendering people, although you probably didn’t have those in the first place. But let me give you an example from an adjacent discipline that’s come up recently. It turns out that one thing that these AIs are supposed to be really good at is writing computer code. Because computer code is highly rational. You can test it and see if it works. There’s boatloads of it on the internet as training data in well organized locations, very consistently accessible—which is not true of architectural data, by the way.
It turns out that many software engineering companies who had decided to replace their programmers with AIs are now hiring them back because the code-generating AIs are not reliable enough to write good code. And then you intersect that with the problem that was described in a presentation I saw a couple of months ago by our director of undergraduate studies in computer science, [Theodore Kim,] who said that so many students are using AI to generate code that they don’t understand how to debug the code once it’s written. He got a call from the head of software engineering for EA, who said, “I can’t hire your graduates because they don’t know how to debug.” And if it’s true here, I guarantee you, it’s true everywhere across the country. So you have a skill loss.
Then there’s what I would call the issue of the luddites. The [original] Luddites didn’t object to the weaving machines, per se, but they objected to the fact that while they were waiting for a job in the loom factory, they didn’t have any work. Because there was this gap between when humans get replaced by technology and when there are new jobs for them doing other things: you lost your job plowing that cornfield with a horse because there’s a tractor now, but you didn’t get a job in the tractor factory, somebody else did. These are all issues that have to be thought about.
It seems like a lot of architects are dismissive because of what AI can’t do now, but that seems silly to me, because I’m seeing AI enabling things like transcriptions now.
But transcriptions are so easy. I do not disagree that, over time, these algorithms will get more capable doing some of the things that architects do. But if we get to the point where they’re good enough to literally replace architects, we’re going to be facing a much larger social problem.
There’s also a market problem here that you need to be aware of. These things are fantastically expensive to build, and architects are not good technology customers. We’re cheap and steal a lot of software—not good customers for multibillion-dollar investments. Maybe, over time, someone builds something that’s sophisticated enough, multimodal enough, that can operate with language, video, three-dimensional reasoning, analytical models, cost estimates, all those things that architects need. But I’m not concerned that that’s going to happen in the foreseeable future. It’s too hard a problem, unless somebody comes up with a way to train these things on much skinnier data sets.
That’s the other problem: all of our data is disaggregated, spread all over the place. Nobody wants to share it, because it involves risk. When the med school has 33,000 patients enrolled in a trial, they’re getting lots of highly curated, accurate data that they can use to train their AIs. Where’s our accurate data? I can take every Revit model that Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has ever produced in the history of their firm, and it’s not nearly enough data to train an AI. Not nearly enough.
And what do you think AI does to the traditional business model of architecture, which has been under some pressure even before this?
That’s always been under pressure. It depends on what we as a profession decide. I’ve written extensively about this. We have two options. The first option is a race to the bottom: Who can use AI to cut their fees as much as possible? Option number two, value: How do we use AI to do a better job and charge more money? That’s not a technology question, it’s a business strategy question. So if I’ve built an AI that is so good that I can promise a client that x is going to happen or y is going to happen, I should charge for that: “I’m absolutely positive that this building is going to produce 23% less carbon than it would have had I not designed it. Here’s a third party that can validate this. Write me a check.”
Featured image courtesy of Easy-Peasy.AI.
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Need A Job? ChatGPT Becomes LinkedIn Meets AI Tutor And Recruiter

Need a Job? OpenAI’s ChatGPT Becomes LinkedIn Meets AI Tutor and Recruiter (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)
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ChatGPT is stepping into a job market that has been struggling to find its footing. Millions of job seekers complain that sending out resumes feels like shouting into a void, while employers admit they cannot easily separate real skills from inflated buzzwords.
Per Resume Genius, as of July 2025, there were 7 million unemployed individuals competing for 7.7 million job openings, marking the first time since 2021 that job seekers outnumbered available positions. At the same time, workers worry about being displaced by the very technologies reshaping business, particularly artificial intelligence.
Into this environment comes OpenAI with a potentially disruptive concept: a jobs platform driven by ChatGPT. Reports from CNBC suggest the company is preparing to launch a hiring and certification ecosystem that could rival Microsoft’s LinkedIn. If successful, it could transform how the job market functions.
What ChatGPT May Bring to Hiring
Think of the vision as LinkedIn meets AI tutor meets recruiter—but powered by ChatGPT.
This isn’t a traditional job board. ChatGPT may integrate three core features.
First, skill certification: through ChatGPT’s study and learning modes, people could earn AI-validated micro-credentials, from AI fluency to prompt engineering, in days rather than years.
Second, AI-powered matching: instead of sifting through keyword-stuffed listings, ChatGPT might match users to roles based on demonstrated ability, not just past job titles.
ChatGPT could reshape hiring and skills training (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
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Third, up-skilling: if candidates fall short of a requirement, the same AI could guide them through learning modules to get them up to speed.
Imagine logging into OpenAI’s platform and asking ChatGPT to show you open Web3 marketing roles. The AI identifies relevant openings and spots gaps in your skills—maybe in blockchain fundamentals, crypto ecosystems, or decentralized identity. It then suggests tailored training modules, and once completed, issues on-chain credentials that employers can verify. With these portable, tamper-proof certifications, ChatGPT may match you with hiring managers looking for precisely those skills—and might even facilitate scheduling interviews.
Pretty awesome promise for job seekers.
Why Timing May Be Critical for ChatGPT
Today’s labor market is fractured.
Applications stack up unanswered. Employers struggle to gauge real capability. Career shifters and those laid off can’t easily prove what they know. Meanwhile, workers feel vulnerable amid fast-moving AI disruption. OpenAI’s approach—with training and certification built into job matching—shifts ChatGPT from being seen as a threat to becoming a tool for empowerment.
The ambition is striking.
OpenAI is embedding certification directly into ChatGPT, allowing anyone to prepare and test within the app’s Study mode. The company has set a bold goal of certifying 10 million Americans by 2030, starting with launch partners like Walmart.
Walmart, the largest private employer in the world, announced it will provide the new no-cost OpenAI certification to its 2 million U.S. associates beginning next year as part of its up-skilling efforts. The program is designed to equip workers with essential AI skills and support their growth as technology becomes a larger part of daily work.
How ChatGPT Could Impact Job Seekers and Employers
For individuals, the implications could be life-changing. Many job seekers feel stuck without the right degree or with resumes filtered out by automated systems. Someone self-taught in generative AI may finally get credentials that employers trust. A mid-career worker facing layoffs could retrain quickly and prove new capabilities. International applicants might gain universally recognized credentials—all contributing to a fairer job market.
For employers, the promise is compelling. Hiring is expensive and uncertain. Resumes don’t always tell the truth, and turnover drains resources. If ChatGPT can certify skills and match candidates with greater precision, hiring could become faster, cheaper, and more confident—even introducing new pools of overlooked talent.
ChatGPT, Microsoft, and the Future of Work
The strategic dynamics are worth noting. Microsoft is OpenAI’s largest backer and also owns LinkedIn. On the one hand, OpenAI’s move may compete with its own investor’s platform. On the other, there may be collaboration—imagine ChatGPT-based certifications flowing into LinkedIn profiles. Regardless, wider AI literacy drives demand for Microsoft’s cloud and AI services, making this ecosystem too valuable to ignore.
Of course, there are risks.
Will this be a good partnership for OpenAI and Microsoft’s Linkedin? (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP) (Photo by LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Will employers accept AI-issued credentials on par with degrees? Could bias in the system reinforce inequalities? How will user data be protected? And will job seekers and employers be willing to adopt an entirely new platform? ChatGPT’s path to trust, adoption, and success depends not only on technology but on credibility. AI and education could help parents and children understand the path forward.
Still, the upside is significant. ChatGPT could recast AI from a job destroyer to a job enabler. Combining credentials, tutoring, and matching in one seamless experience may position OpenAI not just as LinkedIn’s competitor, but as the architect of a new category: the AI-driven opportunity engine.
The Future For Jobs MayBe ChatGPT
The traditional hiring playbook is outdated. Degrees are slow and often outdated, resumes are noisy, and job posts are overwhelming. Embedding seamless skills certification and learning into hiring may rewrite the hiring playbook. Will this help positively impact AI and Education?
If OpenAI succeeds, opportunities may shift from “where did you go to school?” to “what can you do?”
That paradigm shift could open doors for millions and help employers access untapped talent. We’re witnessing the early outlines of what may become one of the most significant AI applications of the next decade.
ChatGPT may not just challenge LinkedIn—it may fundamentally redefine how skills, work, and opportunity connect in a digital age.
Tools & Platforms
Harvard develops AI to identify life-changing gene-drug combinations

Early results suggest the system could speed drug discovery, reduce costs, and highlight entirely new therapeutic pathways for neurodegenerative and rare diseases.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School unveiled an AI designed to match genes and drugs to combat disease in cells. The system, called PDGrapher, aims to tackle conditions ranging from Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s to rare disorders like X-linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism.
Unlike traditional tools that only detect correlations, PDGrapher forecasts which gene-drug pairings can restore healthy cellular function and explains their mechanisms. It may speed up research, lower expenses, and point to novel treatments.
Early tests suggest that PDGrapher can identify known effective combinations and propose new ones that have yet to be validated. If validated in trials, the technology could move medicine towards personalised treatments.
The debut of PDGrapher reflects a broader trend of AI transforming biotechnology. Innovations in AI are accelerating research by mapping biological systems with unprecedented speed, showing how machine learning can decode complex biological systems faster than ever before.
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