WASHINGTON–A new White House executive order is requesting access to new artificial intelligence models before their release.
The order, signed by President Trump on Tuesday, requests that companies to voluntarily participate in benchmarking to examine an AI model’s “advanced cyber capabilities” and gauge whether it should be classified a “covered frontier model.”
The order also seeks access to those models for up to 30 days before release, allowing the government to choose “trusted partners that will have early access to covered frontier models to promote secure innovation and strengthen the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure,” according to the new EO.
The White House said the order should not be seen as creating “a mandatory governmental licensing, preclearance or permitting requirement for the development, publication, release or distribution of new AI models, including frontier models.”
Priority in Enforcement
The order also calls on the Department of Justice to prioritize the enforcement of laws against anyone using AI for cyberattacks or cybercrimes, or who uses AI to further other types of crime.
“This includes breaching any public or private information technology system or employing AI agents to unlawfully access data or information that is subsequently used for a criminal or unlawful purpose,” the order said.
As the CU Daily previously reported, the White House hosted an emergency meeting among AI providers and some of the nation’s largest banks after new AI models proved capable of quickly penetrating the security of many institutions.
