5 points of bipartisan agreement on how to regulate AI

The Trump administration revealed its AI Action Plan in July 2025 with a focus on “global AI dominance” in artificial intelligence. Like so much else in the second Trump administration, AI policy has become an ideologically polarized battleground. This marks a shift from prior administrations, including the first Trump administration, when pairing innovation goals with concerns about AI harm was broadly accepted as a baseline, even if views differed on how to address it. Yet amid these ideological shifts, one unheralded area of bipartisan continuity is the recognition of the need to internally regulate the federal government’s use and procurement of AI. This limited bipartisan continuity can help inform us where common ground can still be found on AI regulation. There are five main points of bipartisan agreement between memos from the Trump and Biden administrations:

1. Regulate and presumptively identify specific high-impact AI systems 
2. Create systematic governance and reporting structures within agencies
3. Prohibit use of high-impact AI systems without proactive protections
4. Require specific minimum practices for high-impact AI systems
5. Provide transparency into AI use cases and associated protections