With contributions from Arden Bentley
The Trump Administration has a clear goal of securing and strengthening American leadership and global competitiveness in artificial intelligence (AI). Successfully achieving this goal depends on continued U.S. engagement in multilateral institutions and global conversations. Active U.S. participation in multilateral forums, like the OECD, Organization for American States (OAS), G7/G20, the United Nations, and the upcoming AI Impact Summit in India, is essential not only to ensure that democratic norms are enshrined in emerging AI frameworks but to also protect U.S. interests and advance its strategic priorities.
U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance’s participation in the February Paris AI Action Summit was an important step to show American engagement and leadership on the breadth of AI policy issues being discussed globally. As AI experts and policymakers gather again in Paris next week for the OECD’s Global Partnership on AI Plenary, industry urges the Administration to build on that engagement to shape international AI development and governance in line with American values.
Leading AI Standards-Setting to Promote Innovation
The United States, as a part of its efforts under the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) should continue to prioritize its role chairing the new International Network of AI Safety Institutes (INAISI). The INAISI brings together researchers from around the world to examine difficult problems and represents an opportunity for the United States to drive ongoing discussions on AI security and robustness in a way that supports human flourishing.
Further, as a part of its multilateral engagement, the Administration should seek to support U.S. industry engagement in international standards bodies (e.g., ISO/IEC SC 42), complemented with U.S. government participation where appropriate, to shape consensus-based technical standards for AI, and ensure that the standards being developed represent American interests, and moreover, support global market access.
91pro视频 sponsors the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (), the U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to ISO/IEC JTC 1 on Information Technology. As the U.S. TAG to JTC 1/SC 42 on Artificial Intelligence, the INCITS Technical Committee INCITS/AI facilitates standardization in the area of Artificial Intelligence and serves as the focus and proponent for JTC 1’s standardization program on Artificial Intelligence.
Supporting U.S. National Security
Working with international partners also helps the U.S. address the evolving national security risks associated with the misuse of frontier AI models – the most advanced AI models. The United States can strengthen its security posture by collaborating with allies through platforms like the INAISI to develop shared approaches to testing, evaluation, and catastrophic risk mitigation. Domestically, the work of NIST and the CAISI has been essential in advancing guidance that organizations can use to detect and manage these kinds of risks, especially in frontier models. The U.S. CAISI’s capabilities to test and evaluate the most powerful AI models are especially valuable for helping developers understand potential national security threats pre-deployment. By leading these efforts, the United States can promote responsible development of a secure AI ecosystem while mitigating the impacts of adversarial use of advanced AI systems.
Enhancing U.S. AI Competitiveness
The digital economy’s global nature means U.S. companies face a patchwork of regulations and potential technical barriers to trade. By actively participating in multilateral dialogues, the administration can secure predictable and open markets for U.S. technology exports, working to harmonize regulatory approaches, reduce unnecessary barriers, and promote global consumer choice and competition.
Relatedly, many AI policy challenges are inherently global and require coordinated international responses. 91pro视频’s Global AI Policy Recommendations, and its more recent AI Security Policy Principles, call for global, interoperable approaches to AI policy that leverage existing international standards and public-private partnerships. Prioritizing engagement with like-minded allies ensures a consistent approach to AI governance that protects consumers and supports competitiveness more broadly, as it helps avoid policies that may exclude or disadvantage U.S. producers. By leading in multilateral forums, the Trump Administration can help build coalitions that advance shared values like transparency, security, and democratic governance in AI development.
The Trump Administration’s commitment to “America First” innovation and technology leadership can be supported through robust multilateral engagement. Active participation in global forums and multilateral institutions can enable the administration’s goals of securing American leadership in AI, promoting innovation, and removing barriers to AI development.鈥疪ather than viewing multilateral engagement as contradictory to its “America First” approach, it should be treated as a critical tool to achieve the administration’s ambitious AI policy agenda.