{"id":129871,"date":"2026-08-05T04:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T04:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/129871\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T04:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T04:01:15","slug":"national-cyber-director-lays-out-white-house-plans-to-secure-ai-without-writing-new-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/129871\/","title":{"rendered":"National cyber director lays out White House plans to secure AI without writing new rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Trump administration executive order on artificial intelligence tried to strike the balance between responsible use, security and mutual benefit, all with an eye toward not making it regulatory in nature, National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone is working towards the same goal in terms of protecting the country and securing our systems, and we are trying to ensure that defenders have this technology as quickly and at scale as possible, but there are obviously specific security concerns, and industry has been very sensitive to this as well,\u201d Cairncross said at the Black Hat 2026 conference in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

The security concerns about AI have moved to the forefront of discussions about the technology after OpenAI models escaped a test environment to hack<\/a> the company Hugging Face last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe design of this is that when there is something that happens, when there is a breach, when there is an event, that that system, that network of connections can exist, adapt to that, and seek to remedy that as quickly as possible, so that form follows function rather than turning that upside down, and as usual with the government pen just proceeding in a vacuum,\u201d Cairncross said.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has drawn criticism<\/a> over whether it has struck the right balance on AI rules. Trump\u2019s AI executive order notably got pulled just before its scheduled release, with the final version signed in June<\/a> missing some aspects that had drawn industry opposition.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat needs to be built is a flexible, adaptable structure that enables information sharing between industry and government, so we can guarantee that this technology benefits everyone it\u2019s going to benefit, but is used responsibly and securely,\u201d Cairncross said.<\/p>\n

He said the administration is working with industry during implementation of the executive order.<\/p>\n

\u201cA regulatory regime would not only strangle growth, development, and innovation, and be enormously harmful to the industry, but it would be obsolete 48 hours after it was gone through whatever process it had gone through,\u201d Cairncross said.<\/p>\n

Open source<\/a> will play a \u201cvital\u201d role in the U.S. spreading its vision for AI across the globe, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are extremely interested in looking at ways to build U.S. open source, make it competitive, make it the preferential adoption by planet Earth,\u201d Cairncross said. \u201cWe understand and appreciate the value to the ecosystem that it has, the innovation, the startups who rely on it, the leap forward it makes possible in ways that otherwise would never happen. And so I think it\u2019s an incredibly thriving ecosystem in AI right now, and we are looking to do what we can to grow, foster, and push that U.S. open source model.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Matt Kapko contributed reporting to this story.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\"Tim<\/p>\n

\t\t\tWritten by Tim Starks
\n\t\t\tTim Starks is senior reporter at CyberScoop. His previous stops include working at The Washington Post, POLITICO and Congressional Quarterly. An Evansville, Ind. native, he’s covered cybersecurity since 2003. Email Tim here: tim.starks@cyberscoop.com<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration executive order on artificial intelligence tried to strike the balance between responsible use, security and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,111,40923,3164,18044,17587,157,1715,19638],"class_list":["post-129871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-black-hat","tag-executive-order","tag-hugging-face","tag-national-cyber-director","tag-openai","tag-regulation","tag-sean-cairncross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}