WASHINGTON 

US President Donald Trump signed a trio of executive orders Wednesday meant to bolster the US's standing in the global artificial intelligence (AI) race.

Trump told a gathering of tech and government leaders in Washington that the nation needs tech firms to "be all in for America. We want you to put America first," he said, echoing one of his signature foreign policy slogans as he vowed to reshape the domestic environment in their favor.

"My administration will use every tool at our disposal to ensure that the United States builds and maintains the largest, most powerful and most advanced AI infrastructure anywhere on the planet," he said.

"America needs new data centers, new semiconductor and chip manufacturing facilities, new power plants and transmission lines. And under my leadership, we're going to get that job done, and it's going to be done with certainty and with environmental protection and all of the things that we have to do to get it done properly," he added.

Trump's orders seek to expedite permitting for AI data centers, promote the export of American AI models and ensure that government-promoted AI models are what a senior Trump aide called "ideologically neutral."

The orders were signed just hours after the White House rolled out Trump's AI "action plan," a sweeping document meant to ensure the US's "global dominance" in the AI field. Trump is seeking to accomplish that by goal loosening environmental regulations on the extremely energy-heavy industry and facilitating the sale of American AI tech.

The document, titled “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan” frames AI as a critical national security and economic imperative. Its stated goal is to achieve "unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance."

The plan, which follows a Jan. 23 executive order by Trump, proposes a three-pronged strategy: accelerating domestic innovation, building vast AI infrastructure, and leading a new form of international diplomacy to counter adversaries, mainly China.

The strategy outlines a vision in which American tech is unleashed by cutting "bureaucratic red tape" and rejecting "radical climate dogma."

The plan was developed by key officials, including AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks and Secretary of State and Acting National Security Advisor Marco Rubio.

“Winning the AI race is non-negotiable,” Rubio said in a statement released by the White House.

The plan’s “clear-cut policy goals set expectations for the federal government to ensure America sets the technological gold standard worldwide, and that the world continues to run on American technology.”