The White House’s highly anticipated artificial intelligence and cybersecurity executive order will designate a coalition of national security and civilian agencies to ramp up scrutiny of cutting-edge AI models, five people familiar with the initiative told POLITICO.
Industry officials began receiving details on the directive from the White House on Tuesday night, said four of the people familiar with discussions about the executive order. It could come as early as Thursday, three people knowledgeable about the planning said.
The people were granted anonymity to share details of ongoing, highly confidential discussions.
One key question is whether the order will require a federal review of advanced AI models before they can be released, an idea the Trump administration had distanced itself from earlier this month after initially floating the proposal. The latest draft would ask developers of the systems to submit certain models to a voluntary review by a phalanx of federal agencies as far as 90 days before they’re made public, people familiar with it said.
