White House Wants Bias-Free AI for Government Work

The White House is cooking up an order to make sure AI tools that work with the government stay politically neutral. Officials worry models trained on internet data can drift into liberal or conservative slants, so this would set a clear standard.

At the center of the plan is AI czar David Sacks, who has pointed to embarrassing moments like Google's Gemini painting a black George Washington or diverse Nazis. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google GOOG and Elon Musk's xAI fear it could pick industry winners and spark free speech fights.

This order lands just as the Pentagon is handing out nearly two hundred million dollars in AI contracts. Tying neutrality to federal deals could shift who wins big and shape how the industry builds its next generation of tools.

It also comes bundled with moves to boost chip exports and speed data center approvals. As Washington juggles bias concerns and tech rivalry with China, investors will be watching every step.