[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 142 (Monday, July 28, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
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[FR Doc No: 2025-14217]
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Executive Order 14319 of July 23, 2025
Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Purpose. Artificial intelligence (AI) will
play a critical role in how Americans of all ages learn
new skills, consume information, and navigate their
daily lives. Americans will require reliable outputs
from AI, but when ideological biases or social agendas
are built into AI models, they can distort the quality
and accuracy of the output.
One of the most pervasive and destructive of these
ideologies is so-called ``diversity, equity, and
inclusion'' (DEI). In the AI context, DEI includes the
suppression or distortion of factual information about
race or sex; manipulation of racial or sexual
representation in model outputs; incorporation of
concepts like critical race theory, transgenderism,
unconscious bias, intersectionality, and systemic
racism; and discrimination on the basis of race or sex.
DEI displaces the commitment to truth in favor of
preferred outcomes and, as recent history illustrates,
poses an existential threat to reliable AI.
For example, one major AI model changed the race or sex
of historical figures--including the Pope, the Founding
Fathers, and Vikings--when prompted for images because
it was trained to prioritize DEI requirements at the
cost of accuracy. Another AI model refused to produce
images celebrating the achievements of white people,
even while complying with the same request for people
of other races. In yet another case, an AI model
asserted that a user should not ``misgender'' another
person even if necessary to stop a nuclear apocalypse.
While the Federal Government should be hesitant to
regulate the functionality of AI models in the private
marketplace, in the context of Federal procurement, it
has the obligation not to procure models that sacrifice
truthfulness and accuracy to ideological agendas.
Building on Executive Order 13960 of December 3, 2020
(Promoting the Use of Trustworthy Artificial
Intelligence in the Federal Government), this order
helps fulfill that obligation in the context of large
language models.
Sec. 2. Definitions. For purposes of this order:
(a) The term ``agency'' means an executive
department, a military department, or any independent
establishment within the meaning of 5 U.S.C. 101, 102,
and 104(1), respectively, and any wholly owned
Government corporation within the meaning of 31 U.S.C.
9101.
(b) The term ``agency head'' means the highest-
ranking
official or officials of an agency, such as the
Secretary, Administrator, Chairman, Director,
Commissioners, or Board of Directors.
(c) The term ``LLM'' means a large language model,
which is a generative AI model trained on vast, diverse
datasets that enable the model to generate natural-
language responses to user prompts.
(d) The term ``national security system'' has the
same meaning as in 44 U.S.C. 3552(b)(6).
Sec. 3. Unbiased AI Principles. It is the policy of the
United States to promote the innovation and use of
trustworthy AI. To advance that policy, agency heads
shall, consistent with applicable law and in
consideration
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of guidance issued pursuant to section 4 of this order,
procure only those LLMs developed in accordance with
the following two principles (Unbiased AI Principles):
(a) Truth-seeking. LLMs shall be truthful in
responding to user prompts seeking factual information
or analysis. LLMs shall prioritize historical accuracy,
scientific inquiry, and objectivity, and shall
acknowledge uncertainty where reliable information is
incomplete or contradictory.
(b) Ideological Neutrality. LLMs shall be neutral,
nonpartisan tools that do not manipulate responses in
favor of ideological dogmas such as DEI. Developers
shall not intentionally encode partisan or ideological
judgments into an LLM's outputs unless those judgments
are prompted by or otherwise readily accessible to the
end user.
Sec. 4. Implementation. (a) Within 120 days of the date
of this order, the Director of the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB), in consultation with the
Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, the
Administrator of General Services, and the Director of
the Office of Science and Technology Policy, shall
issue guidance to agencies to implement section 3 of
this order. That guidance shall:
(i) account for technical limitations in complying with this order;
(ii) permit vendors to comply with the requirement in the second Unbiased
AI Principle to be transparent about ideological judgments through
disclosure of the LLM's system prompt, specifications, evaluations, or
other relevant documentation, and avoid requiring disclosure of specific
model weights or other sensitive technical data where practicable;
(iii) avoid over-prescription and afford latitude for vendors to comply
with the Unbiased AI Principles and take different approaches to
innovation;
(iv) specify factors for agency heads to consider in determining whether to
apply the Unbiased AI Principles to LLMs developed by the agencies and to
AI models other than LLMs; and
(v) make exceptions as appropriate for the use of LLMs in national security
systems.
(b) Each agency head shall, to the maximum extent
consistent with applicable law:
(i) include in each Federal contract for an LLM entered into following the
date of the OMB guidance issued under subsection (a) of this section terms
requiring that the procured LLM comply with the Unbiased AI Principles and
providing that decommissioning costs shall be charged to the vendor in the
event of termination by the agency for the vendor's noncompliance with the
contract following a reasonable period to cure;
(ii) to the extent practicable and consistent with contract terms, revise
existing contracts for LLMs to include the terms specified in subsection
(b)(i) of this section; and
(iii) within 90 days of the OMB guidance issued under subsection (a) of
this section, adopt procedures to ensure that LLMs procured by the agency
comply with the Unbiased AI Principles.
Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.
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(d) The costs for publication of this order shall
be borne by the General Services Administration.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
July 23, 2025.
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