Trusted AI
Redefining AI for a new Washington.
Artificial intelligence now underpins search engines, virtual assistants, identity verification, fraud detection, and critical infrastructure — and the policy questions surrounding it have grown just as pervasive.
Algorithmic bias and civil rights
Congress continues to scrutinize how AI-powered systems can embed and amplify racial and gender bias across hiring, lending, housing, and the criminal justice system. As generative AI expands into consequential decisions, ensuring algorithmic fairness has moved from a research priority to a legislative one.
Workforce displacement
Automation and AI agents are increasingly encroaching on white-collar professions once considered insulated from technological disruption. Policymakers are weighing how to protect workers, retrain displaced employees, and determine which decisions should require meaningful human oversight.
National security and AI-enabled threats
AI now powers large-scale disinformation campaigns, autonomous weapons systems, and sophisticated cyberattacks — threats with real-world, life-and-death consequences. The urgency for international guardrails and domestic oversight frameworks has never been greater.
Health equity and AI in clinical care
As health systems accelerate AI adoption for diagnostics, triage, and treatment recommendations, researchers and advocates warn that models trained on historically biased datasets risk deepening existing disparities in care and outcomes — a concern that demands proactive regulatory guidance.
Shaping the National AI Initiative: A blueprint for action
The Trusted AI Coalition is committed to helping build a durable, criteria-based national AI policy — one that drives American innovation, advances civil rights, and positions the U.S. as a global leader in responsible AI governance.
Federal AI infrastructure and the NAIRR
Expanding access to AI research resources nationwide
The National AI Research Resource (NAIRR), established under the National AI Initiative Act, is building the shared infrastructure that democratizes access to the computing power, datasets, and tools required for cutting edge AI research. The Trusted AI Coalition supports full funding and rapid implementation of the NAIRR to ensure that universities, startups, and under resourced institutions can compete on a level footing with large technology companies.
Expanding this resource is essential to sustaining American competitiveness and to ensuring that the benefits of AI innovation are broadly shared, not concentrated in a handful of coastal tech hubs.
Monitoring the EU AI Act and its U.S. implications
Tracking how European regulation shapes domestic policy
The EU AI Act, the world’s first comprehensive binding framework for artificial intelligence, establishes risk tiered requirements for AI systems operating across Europe and is already influencing regulatory conversations far beyond EU borders. As American companies navigate compliance obligations and foreign governments assess whether to adopt similar frameworks, U.S. policymakers face mounting pressure to respond.
The Trusted AI Coalition closely monitors how European AI regulation evolves and analyzes its downstream effects on American industry, competitiveness, and civil liberties. Our goal is to ensure that U.S. policymakers have timely, accurate intelligence on what is happening abroad so that any domestic response is informed, deliberate, and reflective of American values and priorities rather than a reactive adoption of foreign frameworks.
Congressional priorities and the legislative landscape
Privacy, antitrust, defense, and public health
Congress is approaching an inflection point on AI regulation. Multiple committees are advancing bills touching data privacy, algorithmic accountability, antitrust enforcement, and the use of AI in federal agencies. Annual defense authorization bills continue to shape how AI is developed and deployed for national security, including requirements for human oversight and ethical use standards.
Bipartisan consensus is emerging around a few core principles: transparency in consequential automated decisions, clear liability frameworks, and baseline civil rights protections. The Trusted AI Coalition is actively engaging members on both sides of the aisle to translate these principles into durable, workable legislation that does not stifle innovation.
Industry leadership and the coalition’s role
Reclaiming the narrative on responsible AI
In a rapidly shifting policy environment, the AI industry cannot afford to be a passive observer. The Trusted AI Coalition brings together a diverse cross section of AI developers, civil society organizations, academic researchers, and end user communities to advance a shared agenda: evidence based policy that is both protective and enabling.
Our work includes pooling national and international expertise to address common misconceptions, publishing criteria based policy frameworks that regulators and legislators can act on, and ensuring that the voices of those most affected by AI systems, including historically marginalized communities, are centered in every policy conversation.
In this landscape, the diverse AI industry has a chance to seize back the conversation and work with international experts: pooling national and international resources to address common misconceptions and questions about the industry and pushing a solid, criteria-based, workable national AI policy.
Bipartisan AI
Representatives Lori Trahan (D-MA) and Jay Obernolte (R-CA) released a bipartisan discussion draft of the Great American AI Act on June 4, 2026, seeking public feedback before formally introducing legislation to create a federal framework governing AI to address national security, workforce, and cybersecurity threats.
Historic Directive on AI
President Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum on June 5, 2026, establishing a framework to accelerate AI adoption across the military and intelligence community by rapidly onboarding advanced AI models, building high-security computing infrastructure, and ensuring no outside entity can interfere with AI systems that warfighters depend on — while rescinding the Biden-era NSM-25 and prohibiting use of AI for censorship or unlawful surveillance.
Our Scope of Work
Our combined resources will monitor federal policy, provide strategic analysis, gather intelligence on upcoming congressional and White House Action, create tailored messaging and meeting collateral, and engage in lobbying efforts when necessary to advance the Coalition’s goals and prevent detrimental policies. The following activities are included as part of our proposed scope of work:
“Deep Dive”
and stakeholder mapping
Crafting and telling our membership stories on trusted and ethical AI
Comprehensive government relations strategy development
Targeted, smart advocacy
Third-party engagement and coalition-building
Digital advocacy
Active monitoring and analysis
Internal Communications
Want to bring together our members