Biden Executive Order on AI

Event

A regulatory action from the previous administration that was rescinded by President Trump. It was criticized for promoting DEI in AI models and creating a burdensome regulatory environment.


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1/23/2026, 6:57:21 AM

Last Updated

1/23/2026, 7:02:50 AM

Research Retrieved

1/23/2026, 7:02:50 AM

Summary

Executive Order 14110, titled the 'Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence,' was signed by President Joe Biden on October 30, 2023. As the most comprehensive U.S. governance framework for AI, it aimed to promote competition, protect national security, and ensure global competitiveness while mandating the creation of 'chief artificial intelligence officer' positions across federal agencies. The order invoked the Defense Production Act to require developers of high-risk AI systems to report safety test results to the government. Despite its broad scope, the order was criticized by some for promoting 'Woke AI' through DEI principles, and it was ultimately rescinded by President Donald Trump on January 20, 2025, shortly after he assumed office to make way for a more pro-innovation AI Action Plan.

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Extracted Attributes
  • Signatory

    Joe Biden

  • Full Title

    Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence

  • Rescinded By

    Donald Trump

  • Signing Date

    2023-10-30

  • Official Name

    Executive Order 14110

  • Key Requirement

    Establishment of Chief Artificial Intelligence Officers in federal agencies

  • Rescission Date

    2025-01-20

  • Statutory Authority Invoked

    Defense Production Act

Timeline
  • Secretary Mayorkas establishes the first DHS Artificial Intelligence Task Force. (Source: Web Search (DHS))

    2023-04-01

  • President Joe Biden signs Executive Order 14110 on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI. (Source: Wikipedia)

    2023-10-30

  • The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) releases implementation guidance following the Executive Order. (Source: Wikipedia)

    2023-11-01

  • President Donald Trump rescinds Executive Order 14110 within hours of assuming office. (Source: Wikipedia)

    2025-01-20

Executive Order 14110

Executive Order 14110, titled Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (sometimes referred to as "Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence") was the 126th executive order signed by former U.S. President Joe Biden. Signed on October 30, 2023, the order defines the administration's policy goals regarding artificial intelligence (AI), and orders executive agencies to take actions pursuant to these goals. The order is considered to be the most comprehensive piece of governance by the United States regarding AI. It was rescinded by U.S. President Donald Trump within hours of his assuming office on January 20, 2025. Policy goals outlined in the executive order pertain to promoting competition in the AI industry, preventing AI-enabled threats to civil liberties and national security, and ensuring U.S. global competitiveness in the AI field. The executive order required a number of major federal agencies to create dedicated "chief artificial intelligence officer" positions within their organizations.

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  • President Biden Signs Sweeping Artificial Intelligence ...

    On October 30, 2023, President Joe Biden issued an executive order (EO or the Order) on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) to advance a coordinated, federal governmentwide approach toward the safe and responsible development of AI. It sets forth a wide range of federal regulatory principles and priorities, directs myriad federal agencies to promulgate standards and technical guidelines, and invokes statutory authority — the Defense Production Act — that has historically been the primary source of presidential authorities to commandeer or regulate private industry to support the national defense. The Order reflects the Biden administration’s desire to make AI more secure and to cement U.S. leadership in global AI policy ahead of other attempts to regulate AI — most [...] The EO establishes a new governing model for AI in the federal government. The Order, through the OMB implementation guidance, will establish new chief AI officers throughout the executive branch. It also creates a new White House AI Council chaired by the Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and populated by key Cabinet members and other functional leaders within the administration. The White House AI Council will help coordinate the regulatory, reporting, and other AI-related government activity that the President has mandated under the EO. These structures are likely to contribute to an enduring focus on AI and broader technology risk management within federal government as well as provide an important AI governance model for the private sector. [...] President Biden’s remarks prior to signing the EO acknowledged that “[t]he order is about making sure that AI systems can earn American people’s trust and trust from people around the world.” To help build that trust, the EO seeks to develop standards and means to identify AI-generated content for the public, battling risks from deepfakes and taking into account intellectual property concerns. The EO also emphasizes that privacy considerations — including with respect to data collected and used to develop AI technologies — are critical to maintaining trust. President Biden again called on Congress to pass bipartisan data privacy legislation that addresses AI risks and highlighted the work of Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-New York, to develop comprehensive AI legislation with

  • Executive Order 14110 - Wikipedia

    Executive Order 14110, titled Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (sometimes referred to as "Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence") was the 126th executive order signed by former U.S. President Joe Biden. Signed on October 30, 2023, the order defines the administration's policy goals regarding artificial intelligence (AI), and orders executive agencies to take actions pursuant to these goals. The order is considered to be the most comprehensive piece of governance by the United States regarding AI. It was rescinded by U.S. President Donald Trump within hours of his assuming office on January 20, 2025. [...] 1. ^ "FACT SHEET: President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence". The White House. 2023-10-30. Retrieved 2023-11-12. 2. ^ "OMB Releases Implementation Guidance Following President Biden's Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence | OMB". The White House. 2023-11-01. Retrieved 2023-11-25. 3. ^ Wu, Tim (2023-11-07). "Opinion | In Regulating A.I., We May Be Doing Too Much. And Too Little". The New York Times. ISSN "ISSN (identifier)") 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-11-25. When President Biden signed his sweeping executive order on artificial intelligence last week... 4. ^ a b Tate Ryan-Mosley; Melissa Heikkilä (2023-10-30). "Three things to know about the White House's executive order on AI". MIT Technology Review. [...] 9. ^ Leffer, Lauren (2023-10-31). "Biden's Executive Order on AI Is a Good Start, Experts Say, but Not Enough". Scientific American. Retrieved 2023-11-12. 10. ^ "Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence". Federal Register. 2019-02-14. 11. ^ "Promoting the Use of Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in the Federal Government". Federal Register. 2020-12-08. 12. ^ Leffer, Lauren. "Biden's Executive Order on AI Is a Good Start, Experts Say, but Not Enough". Scientific American. Retrieved 2023-11-29. 13. ^ Groll, Elias (2023-08-12). "White House is fast-tracking executive order on artificial intelligence". CyberScoop. Retrieved 2023-11-25.

  • Highlights of the 2023 Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence for ...

    Introduction and Overview On October 30, 2023, the Biden Administration released Executive Order (E.O.) 14110 on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.1 It establishes a government-wide effort to guide responsible artificial intelligence (AI) development and deployment through federal agency leadership, regulation of industry, and engagement with international partners. The E.O. states its purpose as follows. [...] # Appendixes Appendix. Abbreviations Summary On October 30, 2023, the Biden Administration released Executive Order (E.O.) 14110 on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. It establishes a government-wide effort to guide responsible artificial intelligence (AI) development and deployment through federal agency leadership, regulation of industry, and engagement with international partners. The E.O. directs over 50 federal entities to engage in more than 100 specific actions to implement the guidance set forth across eight overarching policy areas.

  • FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Executive Order Directs ...

    Release Date: October 30, 2023 On October 30, 2023, President Biden issued a landmark Executive Order to promote the safe, secure, and trustworthy development and use of artificial intelligence (AI). The Biden-Harris Administration places the highest urgency on governing the development and use of AI safely and responsibly, and is therefore advancing a coordinated, federal government-wide approach to doing so. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will play a critical part in ensuring that AI use is safe and secure nation-wide. DHS’s own use of AI will be achieved responsibly, while advancing equity and appropriately safeguarding privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties. [...] The Department’s governance and oversight for the responsible use of AI is a closely coordinated, highly collaborative effort that unites operational and business-process stakeholders from across the Department around the common goal of ensuring responsible use. In April 2023, Secretary Mayorkas established the Department’s first Artificial Intelligence Task Force to drive specific applications of AI to advance critical homeland security missions. [...] First, the President has directed Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas to establish and chair an AI Safety and Security Advisory Board (AISSB) to support the responsible development of AI. This committee will bring together preeminent industry experts from AI hardware and software companies, leading research labs, critical infrastructure entities, and the U.S. government. This AISSB will issue recommendations and best practices for an array of AI use cases to ensure AI deployments are secure and resilient.

  • AI Tug-of-War: Trump Pulls Back Biden's AI Plans

    Although the bulk of the Biden Order is addressed to federal agencies, some of its provisions had potentially significant impacts on private sector entities. For example, the Biden Order directed the Commerce Department to require developers to report on the development of higher risk AI systems. Similarly, the Biden order directed the Commerce Department to establish requirements for domestic Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers to report to the government whenever they contract with foreign parties for the training of large AI models. The Biden Order also open-endedly instructed federal agencies to use existing consumer protection laws to enforce against fraud, unintended bias, discrimination, infringements on privacy, and other harms from AI—a directive various federal [...] ### Overview of the Executive Orders Building on the White House’s 2022 Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, the Biden Order outlined a sweeping vision for the future of AI within the federal government, including seven high-level objectives: (1) Ensuring the Safety and Security of AI Technology; (2) Promoting Innovation and Competition; (3) Supporting Workers; (4) Advancing Equity and Civil Rights.; (4) Protecting Consumers, Patients, Passengers, and Students; (5) Protecting Privacy; (6) Advancing Federal Government Use of AI; and (7) Strengthening American Leadership Abroad. [...] Consumer protections: The Biden Order promoted an ambitious agenda to protect consumers, patients and students from AI harms, directing independent regulatory agencies to consider using their full range of authorities to protect consumers from fraud, discrimination, and threats to privacy and other risks that may arise from the use of AI. The Biden Order also open-endedly called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to ensure fair competition in the AI marketplace and to ensure that consumers and workers are protected from harms relating to the use of AI. Under Biden’s administration, the FTC enthusiastically took up this suggestion, pursuing enforcement against businesses that deceived consumers about AI products or used AI products in other ways that harm consumers under a program it