Promoting AI Literacy to Meet Evolving Global Challenges to Education, Workforce, and Economic Development
IMLS supports federal AI priorities. Rapid advancement in Artificial Intelligence provide opportunities for the American public to more efficiently learn, work and communicate. In the coming years, libraries and museums will play a key role in ensuring that their patrons are well-prepared to leverage AI tools. We support them by:
- Offering funding opportunities for institutions looking to implement AI training initiatives.
- Promoting federal programs like the White House AI Challenge.
- Championing lifelong learning.
- Working to put libraries and museums at the forefront of AI education for the public by assisting libraries and museums in adapting in new technologies.
To learn more about the policies that guide our AI work, or our most recent accomplishments, continue reading this page.
Guiding Policies
Per the White House AI Action Plan, agencies should prioritize:
- Exporting American AI: The Commerce and State Departments will partner with industry to deliver secure, full-stack AI export packages – including hardware, models, software, applications, and standards – to America’s friends and allies around the world.
- Promoting Rapid Buildout of Data Centers: Expediting and modernizing permits for data centers and semiconductor fabs, as well as creating new national initiatives to increase high-demand occupations like electricians and HVAC technicians.
- Enabling Innovation and Adoption: Removing onerous Federal regulations that hinder AI development and deployment, and seeking private sector input on rules to remove.
- Upholding Free Speech in Frontier Models: Updating Federal procurement guidelines to ensure that the government only contracts with frontier large language model developers who ensure that their systems are objective and free from top-down ideological bias.
The following documents further detail federal AI directives:
- Executive Order 14179: Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence
- Executive Order 14318: Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure
- Executive Order 14319: Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government
- Executive Order 14320: Promoting the Export of the American AI Technology Stack
- Executive Order 14303: Restoring Gold Standard Science
- Executive Order 14277: Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth
