{"id":11291,"date":"2025-07-25T12:01:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/?p=11291"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T17:19:12","slug":"national-fair-housing-alliance-nfha-president-and-ceo-lisa-rice-issues-statement-on-the-trump-administrations-ai-plan-and-executive-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/national-fair-housing-alliance-nfha-president-and-ceo-lisa-rice-issues-statement-on-the-trump-administrations-ai-plan-and-executive-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"National Fair Housing Alliance President and CEO Lisa Rice Issues Statement on the Trump Administration\u2019s AI Plan and Executive Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph has-text-align-center\"><strong>National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) President and CEO Lisa Rice Issues Statement <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph has-text-align-center\"><strong>on the Trump Administration\u2019s AI Plan and Executive Orders<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">Washington, D.C. &#8212; The National Fair Housing Alliance\u00ae (NFHA\u2122) is committed to ensuring that emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) uplift all communities, ensuring access to economic mobility and prosperity. Just as the internet once redefined the human experience, AI is changing the trajectory of human capabilities, business operations, national governance, and access to opportunities. AI truly is the civil and human rights frontier of our time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">We commend elements of the administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Americas-AI-Action-Plan.pdf\">AI Action Plan<\/a> that prioritize strengthened consumer protections, community development, investments in local workforce training, American competitiveness, and expanded energy sources for AI infrastructure to mitigate straining local infrastructure. These priorities offer meaningful potential to foster innovations that advance responsible governance and public trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">However, we also have concerns and urge caution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">NFHA opposes the President\u2019s Executive Order entitled,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/07\/preventing-woke-ai-in-the-federal-government\/\"> \u201cPreventing Woke AI in the Federal Government.\u201d <\/a>According to the administration, the purpose of this executive order is to prevent principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion from being incorporated in the training of Large Language Models (LLMs). Diversity, equity, and inclusion tenets help debias models and ensure they do not project false, warped, discriminatory, or inaccurate outcomes\u2014something the Administration states is its goal. In fact, we know that training data often reflects the discrimination that exists in our society. Thus, it is imperative that LLMs be tested for bias and trained to not perpetuate discrimination. Our anti-discrimination laws require this standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">America\u2019s diversity is its strength and the reason the U.S. remains a world leader in shaping AI. Fairness, justice, and diversity are embedded in our Constitution and laws. \u201cOut of Many, One\u201d is our national motto. It is disingenuous to suggest that diversity, equity, and inclusion are harmful to or impede technological innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">Moreover, in lockstep with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsl.org\/press-room\/details\/ncsl-applauds-senates-99-1-vote-to-remove-ai-moratorium\">99 U.S. Senators<\/a>, NFHA will continue to implore the Administration not to supersede states\u2019 rights in implementing AI statues that may be necessary for achieving the very objectives of the National AI Plan. We believe that state and local authorities have a critical role to play, especially since many tailored AI policies have already emerged from the states. Federal actions must not weaken these efforts. State-level systems serve as essential laboratories for advancing solutions that ensure all people in America flourish from technological advancements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">Finally, NFHA urges caution in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/07\/accelerating-federal-permitting-of-data-center-infrastructure\/\">buildout<\/a> of AI data centers, which often require vast amounts of power as well as water for cooling. We urge the administration to ensure that AI data centers do not contribute to air, land, or water pollution or deprive already underserved communities of access to energy and other essentials people need to thrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">As NFHA looks forward to a constructive engagement with the Administration, we remain committed to supporting a national AI ecosystem that is fair, competitive, secure, trustworthy, accountable, and transparent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph has-text-align-center\"><strong>###<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\"><em>The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) is the country\u2019s only national civil rights organization dedicated solely to eliminating all forms of housing and lending discrimination and ensuring equal opportunities for all people. As the trade association for 200 fair housing and justice-centered organizations throughout the U.S. and its territories, NFHA works to dismantle longstanding barriers to equity and build diverse, inclusive, well-resourced communities.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) President and CEO Lisa Rice Issues Statement on the Trump Administration\u2019s AI Plan and Executive Orders Washington, D.C. &#8212; The National Fair Housing Alliance\u00ae (NFHA\u2122) is committed to ensuring that emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) uplift all communities, ensuring access to economic mobility and prosperity. 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