White Paper

This White Paper assesses the progress of three pillars of U.S. leadership in AI innovation and trustworthy AI that carry the force of law: (i) the AI in Government Act of 2020; (ii) the Executive Order on "AI Leadership"; and (iii) the Executive Order on "AI in Government." Collectively, these Executive Orders and the AI in Government Act have been critical to defining the U.S. national strategy on AI and envisioning an ecosystem where the U.S. government leads in AI and promotes trustworthy AI. We systematically examined the implementation status of each requirement and performed a comprehensive search across 200 federal agencies to assess implementation of key requirements to identify regulatory authorities pertaining to AI and to enumerate AI use cases. While much progress has been made, our findings are sobering. America's AI innovation ecosystem is threatened by weak and inconsistent implementation of these legal requirements.