Trump’s AI Executive Order Upgrades Federal Cyber Defenses
An executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Tuesday highlights security considerations and directs specific federal agencies to take actions intended to strengthen cybersecurity.
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The U.S. government is preparing to make a version of Anthropic PBC’s powerful new artificial intelligence model available to federal agencies amid concerns the tool could increase cybersecurity risk.
Read full articleAn executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Tuesday highlights security considerations and directs specific federal agencies to take actions intended to strengthen cybersecurity.
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Trump's executive order looks to reinforce governmentwide AI cybersecurity efforts and sets up a voluntary process for government review of advanced AI models.
"The capabilities evolve very rapidly, so you can see new models get released fairly frequently with new potential capabilities," said Valerie Wirtschafter.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday creating a "voluntary framework" for AI companies to share their frontier models with the federal government before they're released "to promote secure innovation and strengthen the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure." The order says the US AI industry has succeeded in part "because we refuse to stifle this innovation with overly burdensome regulation," but that it also recognizes new AI capabilities come with security risks. Accordingly, it directs several federal agencies to come up with a framework to "assess the advanced cyber capabilities of AI models" before they're releas … Read the full story at The Verge.
Trump's executive order creates a voluntary framework for reviewing advanced AI models, expands AI-powered cybersecurity efforts, and more.
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The order, which signaled a shift from the hands-off approach the White House had previously taken toward A.I., followed debates over how to gain control of A.I. models without disrupting innovation.