CFPB Compliance Plan for OMB Memorandum M-25-21

Summary

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's plan for meeting OMB Memorandum M-25-21, issued by its Chief Information Officer and Acting Chief AI Officer. It describes the CFPB's AI adoption as limited in scope and scale, sets up an AI Community of Practice to provide outreach and training and to identify gaps in AI skills, and has the CIO/CAIO review use cases against the high-impact criteria. It covers the Bureau's own AI use, not supervised institutions.

Key dates

1. September 26, 2025Takes effect
2. September 26, 2025Issued
3. October 16, 2026Checked against sources

Developments are added when the record is reviewed. Next review: January 15, 2027.

Evidence

Each passage is quoted from its source. The quoted passages are re-checked against the live pages every month.

1. We have also established an AI Community of Practice (AI COP) to provide bureau-wide

   Supports: AI Community of Practice

   The AI COP will help identify gaps in AI skillsets and support the CFPB's Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer (CAIO) in addressing those gaps.

   Supports: Skills gaps; CAIO

   Prepared and Issued by: Chris Chilbert, Chief Information Officer and Acting Chief AI Officer

   Supports: Issuer

   While the CFPB's AI adoption is currently limited in scope and scale

   Supports: Limited adoption

   Compliance Plan for OMB Memorandum M-25-21 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Primary source

2. The CFPB's compliance plan is intended to ensure consistency with M-25-21.

   Supports: Plan still posted (page renamed under EO 14434)

   Super Intelligence (SI) at the CFPB Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Primary source