President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that would allow artificial intelligence companies to voluntarily collaborate with the federal government, which would get early access to new models.The order released by the White House specifies that the federal government would be given access to “covered frontier models” up to 30 days before the AI models are released more broadly, pending the federal review.Within the next 60 days, the document directs the Treasury Department, the National Security Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and White House officials to “develop and maintain a classified benchmarking process to assess advanced cyber capabilities of AI models” and decide at what point a model should be treated as a “covered frontier model.”
The purpose of the move is to strengthen the Trump administration’s cybersecurity efforts. War Secretary Pete Hegseth was among the administration officials directed to take action following the order.
Several Big Tech companies, including Google and Microsoft, already agreed to provide the federal government access to their AI models for national security purposes last month.
