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New York City Bar Association Podcast

New York City Bar Association Podcast

America's AI Action Plan

Feb 19, 2026 · 1h 19m

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The City Bar’s Presidential Task Force on AI and Digital Technologies hosts today’s podcast on President Trump’s: Winning the Race, America's AI Action Plan. Task Force co-chair Jerome Walker is joined by task force members Matthew Bacal (Davis Polk), Azish Filabi (American College of Financial Services), Robert Mahari (Stanford Codex), and Evan Abrams (Steptoe), to review the plan’s three pillars and key action steps. Pillar One (“Accelerate AI Innovation”) is described as largely deregulatory, including agency review of rules and certain FTC/FCC actions, with targeted concerns such as ideological bias and synthetic media in the legal system, plus investments in open-source/open-weight…