United States of America: White House released National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence

On 20 March 2026, the White House released A National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence (NPFAI), a set of legislative recommendations addressing artificial intelligence (AI) policy across six objectives. Firstly, the NPFAI calls on Congress to empower parents with tools to manage their children's privacy settings, screen time, content exposure, and account controls. The NPFAI would establish commercially reasonable, privacy-protective age-assurance requirements such as parental attestation for AI platforms likely to be accessed by minors and would require such platforms to implement features reducing the risks of sexual exploitation and self-harm. The NPFAI would affirm that existing child privacy protections apply to AI systems, including limits on data collection for model training and targeted advertising. Secondly, in accordance with the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, the NPFAI would ensure residential ratepayers do not experience increased electricity costs from new AI data centre construction and calls on Congress to streamline federal permitting for on-site and behind-the-meter power generation. The NPFAI calls on Congress to augment law enforcement efforts to combat AI-enabled impersonation scams and fraud and to ensure national security agencies possess sufficient technical capacity to understand frontier AI model capabilities. Thirdly, the NPFAI supports allowing courts to resolve whether training AI models on copyrighted material constitutes fair use and calls on Congress to consider enabling licensing frameworks or collective rights systems for rights holders to negotiate compensation from AI providers. The NPFAI calls on Congress to consider a federal framework protecting individuals from unauthorised distribution or commercial use of AI-generated digital replicas of their voice, likeness, or other identifiable attributes, with exceptions for parody, satire, news reporting, and other expressive works. Fourthly, the NPFAI would prevent the United States government from coercing technology providers, including AI providers, to ban, compel, or alter content based on partisan or ideological agendas and would provide Americans with a means to seek redress from the federal government for censorship efforts on AI platforms. Fifthly, the NPFAI calls on Congress to establish regulatory sandboxes for AI applications and to make federal datasets accessible in AI-ready formats for training AI models. The NPFAI states that Congress should not create any new federal rulemaking body to regulate AI and should instead support sector-specific AI applications through existing regulatory bodies and industry-led standards. Sixthly, the NPFAI calls on Congress to ensure existing education and workforce training programmes incorporate AI training. The NPFAI calls on Congress to pre-empt state AI laws that impose undue burdens while preserving states' traditional police powers. The NPFAI states that states should not be permitted to regulate AI development as an inherently interstate phenomenon with foreign policy and national security implications, should not unduly burden Americans' use of AI for activity that would be lawful if performed without AI, and should not be permitted to penalise AI developers for a third party's unlawful conduct involving their models.