Foreign media revealed that the US AI Marshall Plan was about to be launched, but was messed up by Trump.

[Introduction] Today, a foreign media outlet broke a bombshell: The United States originally planned to launch an "AI Marshall Plan," but the Trump administration was so incompetent and seemed to be slacking off that there was a shortage of chips and all the allies deserted. The "AI version of NATO" aborted directly, and the CEOs were extremely anxious.

Just now, foreign media reported that the Artificial Intelligence Marshall Plan is being intensively planned!

Trump has regarded "winning the battle to AGI" as a life - and - death battle to defeat China.

He clearly opposes regulatory measures that may weaken the United States' leading position in AI, and Congress basically holds the same view.

However, Trump's various strange actions don't seem to indicate that he is going to do something serious and implement the Marshall Plan at all.

The CEOs are in a hurry.

In the past few months, Axios interviewed dozens of CEOs, government officials, and AI executives, and compiled a series of measures that the White House, Congress, enterprises, and ordinary workers can take now to embrace this great change.

They proposed that the government, enterprises, and the media should fully prepare to welcome the upcoming comprehensive AI revolution.

What is the AI Marshall Plan?

We all know that during the Cold War, the United States used the Marshall Plan to spend money to rebuild Europe, providing economic aid while containing the Soviet Union.

Now, in the AI era, the Americans are thinking about a "new - version Marshall Plan" - this time to contain China and reshape the global AI order.

But the question is: Has this plan really been launched?

The answer is: No.

Not only has it not been launched, but it is also very fragmented, impromptu, and there is no one to coordinate it.

The Global AI Super - Alliance Led by the United States

As mentioned before, Trump has always opposed regulations that weaken the United States' AI.

For this reason, many CEOs and AI experts are very puzzled by Trump's approach of alienating allies such as Canada and Europe.

If they united these countries, they could have helped the United States establish a like - minded AI super - alliance, jointly following American rules, and at the same time consolidating the security of the AI industrial chain, such as key raw materials (such as rare earths).

If the United States could unite Canada, the entire Europe, Australia, most countries in the Middle East, key countries in Africa and South America, as well as Japan, South Korea, and India in Asia to build a global AI super - alliance led by it, it would obviously change the global AI situation.

This kind of linkage in rules, supply chains, and economic activities would build a non - negligible "pro - American AI camp."

However, Trump did the opposite.

Instead of uniting allies and unifying rules, he offended Canada, Europe, and Australia.

Originally, the United States could have formed an "AI camp of democratic countries," creating an AI version of NATO, but now it has really become a solo fight.

Can you imagine? Relying on China for the import of chip materials, does the United States still think it can win this AI competition?

The Marshall Plan, the Right Time

Foreign media is already anxious about Trump's inaction.

Now, the scale of data, chips, energy, and infrastructure required for the United States to produce AI has reached an unimaginable level.

Trump has indeed reached some cooperation agreements with multiple enterprises and foreign governments and removed some regulatory obstacles to accelerate progress.

But in the public domain, there has been very little public discussion about the profound impact of this change on the US economy and employment.

Meanwhile, many policies are being promoted in a rather "impromptu" way, and Trump himself hardly talks about AI in private.

As Scott Rosenberg, the executive editor of Axios Technology, said: "What the United States needs is a combination of the Marshall Plan, the GI Bill (Veterans Bill), and the New Deal Plan - that is, social projects and international aid mechanisms that can make AI serve both the domestic and global arenas."

Therefore, Axios boldly suggests that the United States should officially launch the AI Marshall Plan according to the following steps!

The Government, States, and Schools Unite

A good suggestion is to let the federal government coordinate and cooperate better with the states and even schools to prepare the country and the workforce in advance.

Currently, some states, such as Texas, have actively cooperated with AI companies to meet the talent and infrastructure needs of emerging fields, but many states still remain inactive.

Axios said that if all states in the country could seize this opportunity to reshape the higher education and vocational training systems, the situation would be very different.

For example, Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, who may be one of the Democratic presidential candidates in 2028, has seized the opportunity.

At the beginning of this month, he personally announced that the "largest private - sector investment project in Pennsylvania's history" is about to be implemented - Amazon Web Services will invest $20 billion in the state to build a data center park.

Congress's "Emergency Brake Mechanism"

Axios commented that currently, Washington basically has no intention of introducing AI regulations, mainly because it is worried that early regulations will allow China to take the lead and gain the dominance of this most important technology in history.

However, this does not mean that Congress should ignore the potential and risks of AI.

Senator Mark Warner, the current vice - chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is one of the few voices in Congress that remains highly vigilant about AI.

He told Axios: "If we really want to surpass China in AI, we must impose clear controls on advanced AI chips and invest heavily in workforce training and R & D."

It is reported that some members of Congress and AI experts are now promoting a "preventive mechanism": establishing a special committee composed of both parties and both houses of Congress, similar to the congressional mechanism responsible for nuclear weapons supervision from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Theoretically, this AI committee can perform the following four key tasks to improve the overall awareness of the public and Congress about AI.

Conduct confidential supervision of unpublished LLMs to fully understand their capabilities;

Inform the public and the industry in advance which jobs and industries will be affected by AI;

Deeply understand the latest technologies of AI and LLMs and regularly educate and train other members of Congress;

Provide additional supervision and emergency intervention channels for high - risk models that may get out of human control in the future, serving as a "backup brake" outside companies or government departments.

Mass Unemployment Caused by AI? Get Prepared Early!

Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, has publicly stated that in the next few years, AI may eliminate half of the entry - level white - collar jobs.

Almost all CEOs are revealing that multiple departments within their companies are slowing down or freezing recruitment because these positions are expected to be replaced by AI.

Seeing that a national AI - related unemployment wave is imminent, what should we do?

Axios proposed that business leaders should do the following two important things for their employees.

1. Provide in - depth training, free resources, and additional support to help employees learn to use AI and significantly improve work efficiency and professional abilities.

It is true that these training costs are extremely high, but for this reason, large companies or institutions with sufficient resources should better demonstrate their social responsibility.

2. Explore new business opportunities brought by AI and the new jobs it can create.

Only in this way can we offset the impact of the disappearance of some jobs.

Fortunately, some CEOs have clearly stated that if the government does nothing, they will take on the social obligation of guiding the transformation.

Finally, Axios said that the above is the prototype of the AI version of the "Marshall Plan."

It is of great significance, not only related to chips, models, and computing power, but also related to the United States' national competitiveness, social stability, and the future of the American people.

You Are Also Part of This AI Cold War

Don't think this is just a matter for the United States.

If the United States fails to implement the AI Marshall Plan, China, Europe, and India may fill this strategic gap and gain an advantage in AI standards, chip control, and the global computing power network.

That is to say, we have now reached a window period regarding the future technological hegemony of mankind. Whoever can institutionalize, socialize, and internationalize AI development will have the opportunity to lead this era.

Do you think you are just a bystander?

Maybe the large models and AI assistants you are using are part of this smokeless AI cold war.

Reference materials:

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/25/ai-united-states-government-plan

This article is from the WeChat public account "New Intelligence Yuan," edited by Aeneas, and published by 36Kr with authorization.