President Trump Signs Executive Order on Advancing AI Education

On April 23, 2025, President Trump signed his Executive Order on Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth. To ensure that the United States remains a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI), the Order makes it the policy of the United States to “promote AI literacy and proficiency among Americans by promoting the appropriate integration of AI into education, providing comprehensive AI training for educators, and fostering early exposure to AI concepts and technology to develop an AI-ready workforce and the next generation of American AI innovators.”

The Order advances this policy by:

• Establishing an AI Education Task Force chaired by the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP);
• Establishing the Presidential AI Challenge to encourage and highlight student and educator achievements in AI;
• Improving Education Through AI by providing resources for K-12 AI education through public-private partnerships;
• Enhancing Training for Educators on AI by prioritizing the use of AI in discretionary grant programs for teacher training; and
• Promoting Registered Apprenticeships by tasking the Secretary of Labor with seeking to increase participation in AI-related Registered Apprenticeships.

• Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
• Technology