Assessing Trump’s Executive Order on AI Oversight

(Matthew Ferren, Vinh Nguyen – Council on Foreign Relations) U.S. President Donald Trump on June 2 signed a long-awaited executive order on AI. The order, titled “Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security,” marks a shift by the administration toward federal oversight of AI. According to the order, “It is the policy of the United States to promote AI innovation and security by working collaboratively with the private sector to modernize government and private sector information systems and harden them against external threats; to protect American ingenuity and intellectual property from exploitation and theft by adversaries; and to cultivate America’s advanced AI-enabled capabilities.”. Among other measures, the order requests that AI companies voluntarily provide the federal government access to “covered frontier models” for a cybersecurity review up to thirty days before their planned release to “other trusted partners.” Its passage comes as concerns have mounted over the ability of some powerful AI models, such as Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, to autonomously identify and exploit hidden vulnerabilities in real-world software. – Assessing Trump’s Executive Order on AI Oversight | Council on Foreign Relations