{"slug":"us-executive-order-14365-national-policy-framework-for-ai","id":"AIPT-POL-0232","permanent_url":"https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0232","title":"Executive Order 14365: Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"Executive Order 14365 (state AI laws)","jurisdiction":"us","instrument_type":"executive_order","status":"in_force","is_binding":true,"ai_specific":true,"issuing_body":"The White House","summary_plain":"Directs the Attorney General to set up an AI Litigation Task Force to challenge state AI laws, asks the Commerce Department to identify \"onerous\" state AI laws (with non-deployment broadband (BEAD) funds tied to that list), and asks the FTC for a policy statement on AI outputs. It does not itself pre-empt any state law; that would take legislation or a court ruling.","adopted_on":"2025-12-11","in_force_on":"2025-12-11","applies_from":null,"official_source_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/16/2025-23092/ensuring-a-national-policy-framework-for-artificial-intelligence","last_verified_at":null,"reviewed_by":null,"content_version":1,"review_status":"pending_review","confidence_level":"medium","updated_at":"2026-10-15T06:46:25+00:00","url":"https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-executive-order-14365-national-policy-framework-for-ai","status_note":"Recorded on 15 October 2026 from search-engine extracts of the official pages listed; the official text could not be opened from the research environment, so every date and duty here is pending review against it.","scope_summary":"Federal agencies; aimed at state AI laws such as those recorded under each state.","who_it_applies_to":"Federal agencies; indirectly, states with AI laws and organisations relying on them.","key_dates_summary":"Signed 11 December 2025; published in the Federal Register 16 December 2025 (2025-23092); DOJ task force memo 9 January 2026; FTC policy statement 7 July 2026.","penalties_summary":null,"what_organizations_must_do":null,"published_on":"2025-12-16","date_notes":"Whether the Commerce evaluation was published, and whether the task force has filed any lawsuit, was not confirmed.","taxonomy":{"actor":["public_authority"],"ai_system_type":["general_purpose_ai_model"],"sector":["cross_sector"],"risk_category":["unclassified"],"use_case":["generative_ai"]},"sections":[],"obligations":[],"applicability_rules":[],"deadlines":[],"versions":[],"enforcement_events":[],"procurement_rules":[],"sources":[{"title":"Federal Register: Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence","publisher":"Federal Register","url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/16/2025-23092/ensuring-a-national-policy-framework-for-artificial-intelligence","document_date":"2025-12-16","document_type":"legislation","tier":1,"tier_label":"Official primary source (government, legislature, regulator, court, standards body, intergovernmental)"}],"related_policies":["us-executive-order-14179","us-colorado-automated-decision-making-technology-act","us-california-sb-53"],"related_frameworks":[],"faq":[],"source":{"official_source_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/16/2025-23092/ensuring-a-national-policy-framework-for-artificial-intelligence","source_title":"Federal Register: Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence","source_publisher":"Federal Register","source_document_date":"2025-12-16","source_reference":null,"source_tier":1,"last_checked_at":"2026-10-15","last_verified_at":null,"review_status":"pending_review","confidence_level":"medium","content_version":1,"change_summary":"Added in the October 2026 sub-national research round. Recorded on 15 October 2026 from search-engine extracts of the official pages listed; the official text could not be opened from the research environment, so every date and duty here is pending review against it.","reviewed_by":null},"second_review":null}