Developers of frontier artificial intelligence models will have the option to voluntarily submit new technologies for review by federal cybersecurity agencies under a new executive order that comes after President Donald Trump backed away from an expected order last month.
Trump issued the executive order on Tuesday morning in a private signing. It represents the culmination of debate within the administration over the balancing of national cybersecurity concerns and the administration’s support for American AI development.
He had been expected to sign the order on May 21, but said at a White House event that day that he postponed it because he did not support “certain aspects of it,” noting that AI development was creating domestic jobs.
“I think it gets in the way of, you know, we’re leading China, we’re leading everybody. And I don’t want to do anything that’s going to get in the way of that lead,” he said.
The administration reportedly considered mandatory reviews, an idea that has since been dropped.
