Trump Signs AI Model Executive Order
Artificial intelligence companies could begin giving the administration access to powerful models one month prior to their release (, subscription).
Whats going on: An executive order signed by President Trump on Tuesday aims to increase the federal governments oversight of the technology [and] asks national-security and cyber officials to work with agency heads and top tech companies to addresssoftware vulnerabilitiesidentified by models like Anthropics Mythos, the White House said.
- The EO is a whittled-down version of one the president postponed signing last month, which would have asked that companies give the government up to 90 days to review new, powerful AI models.
- Developer collaboration on the EO is voluntary.
Why its important: The EO is the administrations latest shift on AI policy, highlighting how Trump is struggling to balance competing factions within the White House: one side seeking more oversight of models, and the other seeking to tear down all barriers to AI deployment.
- It follows the April announcement by AI firm Anthropic that it would delay release of a new AI model, Claude Mythos, over concerns that its ability to detect software vulnerabilities would open the door to unprecedented attacks on critical infrastructure across the public and private sectors.
- But this week, Anthropic said the administration is allowing it to expand access to Mythos.
Opposing views: White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks, who urged President Trump to shelve the May version of the EO, called this weeks iteration a game-changer because it allows our AI labs to comply with the voluntary framework without delaying new model releases.
- But Dean Ball, a former White House Office of Science and Technology Policy senior policy adviser under President Trump, the EO a mistake and said it is clearly teeing up the infrastructure for a model licensing regime.
