# Executive Order 14365: Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: United States
- **Instrument type**: Executive order
- **Status**: In force
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Issuing body**: The White House
- **Adopted**: 2025-12-11
- **Published**: 2025-12-16
- **In force**: 2025-12-11

## In brief

Executive Order 14365 (state AI laws) is a binding executive order of the United States, issued by The White House. It has been in force since 11 December 2025. Federal agencies; aimed at state AI laws such as those recorded under each state.

## Summary

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.

## Scope

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

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.

## Notes on dates

Whether the Commerce evaluation was published, and whether the task force has filed any lawsuit, was not confirmed.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0232 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0232; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-executive-order-14365-national-policy-framework-for-ai
- **Official source**: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/16/2025-23092/ensuring-a-national-policy-framework-for-artificial-intelligence
- **Source document**: Federal Register: Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence
- **Published by**: Federal Register
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-21
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Executive Order 14365: Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence" [AIPT-POL-0232, record version 1, not yet verified]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0232 (accessed 21 October 2026).

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