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OMB Memorandum M-25-21: Accelerating Federal Use of AI through Innovation, Governance, and Public Trust

OMB guidance to agencies on their use of AI, which the memorandum says the AI in Government Act of 2020 required; it rescinds and replaces M-24-10.1

Issued · Office of Management and Budget · In effect

Key provisions

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  • It directs each agency to retain or designate a Chief AI Officer within 60 days, requires agencies covered by the Chief Financial Officers Act to develop and publish AI strategies within 180 days, and requires minimum risk management practices for high-impact AI, with agencies to stop using such AI if proper risk mitigation is not possible.
  • Agencies must also keep updating their annual AI use case inventories and develop compliance plans.1

Status: In effect

OMB Memorandum M-26-04 of December 11, 2025 names M-25-21 among the existing directives and policies that its guidance builds on.2

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Sources

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  1. 1.
    OMB Memorandum M-25-21, Accelerating Federal Use of AI through Innovation, Governance, and Public Trust (April 3, 2025) (external site: whitehouse.gov)

    Office of Management and Budget · Official page · published Apr 3, 2025 · accessed Oct 8, 2026

  2. 2.
    OMB Memorandum M-26-04, Increasing Public Trust in Artificial Intelligence Through Unbiased AI Principles (December 11, 2025) (external site: whitehouse.gov)

    Office of Management and Budget · Official page · published Dec 11, 2025 · accessed Oct 8, 2026

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