U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order in April in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C. Trump privately signed another executive order Tuesday requesting that tech companies give the government access to their AI models before release. Photo by Allison Robbert/UPI | License Photo
June 2 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday requesting that artificial intelligence companies provide AI models to the government for testing before those models are fully released. The "order" is voluntary.
"Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the creation of a mandatory governmental licensing, preclearance or permitting requirement for the development, publication, release or distribution of new AI models, including frontier models," the order said.
A frontier model is the most advanced AI model available at any given time.
It requests that the AI companies take part in a process to study their models' "advanced cyber capabilities" and give the government access up to 30 days before a model's release.
