{"id":840548,"date":"2026-06-03T03:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/840548\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T03:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:13:12","slug":"trump-signs-executive-order-seeking-oversight-of-a-i-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/840548\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking Oversight of A.I. Models"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump signed an executive order on<\/a> Tuesday that asked technology companies to voluntarily give the government oversight of new artificial intelligence models before releasing them to the public, a shift for an administration that had promoted a hands-off approach to the powerful technology.<\/p>\n

The order followed months of debate in the Trump administration over how to handle A.I. and its effects on cybersecurity and national security. Last month, Mr. Trump scrapped an executive order<\/a> on A.I. \u2014 which would have created a window of up to 90 days in which the government would review new A.I. models before they were released \u2014 just hours before he was set to sign it.<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s signing followed a meeting at the White House on Monday that Mr. Trump convened with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and David Sacks, who was previously the administration\u2019s A.I. czar, among others, two people familiar with the confidential meeting said. Mr. Sacks, who had opposed the order, blessed a revised version after the timeline for reviews was cut to 30 days from 90 days, the people said. That helped persuade Mr. Trump to move forward with the signing.<\/p>\n

The order is the Trump administration\u2019s biggest step toward regulating artificial intelligence. It is a reversal of the president\u2019s anything-goes stance, which he adopted when he returned to office last year. That approach was designed to help American tech companies beat China and bolster the economy.<\/p>\n

Under the new order, tech companies would voluntarily give the government a window of up to 30 days to review their new A.I. models before releasing them to the public. The order also asks the \u2060Treasury secretary to form an A.I. \u201ccybersecurity clearinghouse,\u201d which would review security vulnerabilities discovered by A.I. models.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdvanced A.I. capabilities make our nation stronger, but also introduce new national security considerations that require coordinated action across executive departments and agencies,\u201d the order said.<\/p>\n

Liz Huston, a White House spokeswoman, said the executive order reflected Mr. Trump\u2019s \u201ccommon-sense approach of collaborating with industry to balance innovation and security, cementing America\u2019s continued global dominance in A.I. and cybersecurity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tech executives were scrambling to determine how the order would affect an A.I. industry that has enjoyed largely unchecked economic growth. Some companies said the order would allow them to point to participation with the government and ease public worries about A.I. Others were concerned the order could slow development and lead to stricter regulation down the line.<\/p>\n

Brad Smith, Microsoft\u2019s president; Chris Lehane, OpenAI\u2019s chief global affairs officer; Kent Walker, Google\u2019s president of global affairs; and other executives separately praised the order as \u201can important step\u201d that would balance A.I. safety and innovation. Anthropic also posted its support of the order on social media.<\/p>\n

Sam Altman, OpenAI\u2019s chief executive, is scheduled to visit the White House on Wednesday for a meeting that was planned before Mr. Trump signed the order, a person with knowledge of the meeting said.<\/p>\n

Meta did not immediately provide a comment.<\/p>\n

Many tech executives were caught off guard on Tuesday by Mr. Trump\u2019s choice to sign the order with little fanfare or a photo opportunity. Executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Meta and Google had been invited in recent months to discuss the policy with the Trump administration, and some had been en route to the White House last month for the signing of the previous order before it was canceled.<\/p>\n

At the time, tech executives, including the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, had spoken to Mr. Trump about their concerns, two people with knowledge of the discussions said. While the executives supported an order, they worried that the window of up to 90 days for A.I. model reviews would delay the technology\u2019s development. They emphasized that keeping American companies competitive against China was crucial, the people said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Sacks, the former A.I. czar, ultimately persuaded the president to hold off on the order last month, the people said. The White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, a proponent of the executive order, has since worked to get the order back on track, two people familiar with the process said.<\/p>\n

The decision for the White House to begin a formal oversight process of A.I. models began in April, when Anthropic announced a new A.I. model, Mythos<\/a>, which the company said could find software vulnerabilities and lead to a cybersecurity \u201creckoning.\u201d Government officials, banks and others worried that future A.I. models could find vulnerabilities that U.S. enemies would exploit.<\/p>\n

Mythos landed as public opinion on A.I. soured, with mounting fears over how the technology would affect jobs, energy prices, education and mental health. In a March Quinnipiac University poll<\/a> of American adults, 55 percent said they viewed A.I. as a force for harm rather than good.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump has faced pressure to increase the government\u2019s regulation of A.I. In May, MAGA allies including Stephen K. Bannon, Amy Kremer and three dozen pastors signed a letter<\/a> urging the president to adopt a mandatory vetting process for A.I. models. They warned that the systems could harm cybersecurity, and that tech companies could not be trusted \u201cto police themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Members of the group organized a rally to be held on Wednesday in Washington to call on the Trump administration and Congress to start safety testing models. Brendan Steinhauser, chief executive of the Alliance for Secure AI Action, a nonprofit dedicated to A.I. education, said the rally would take place even after the signing because \u201cwe would rather see this be mandatory than voluntary.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is important to the president, so we think all the companies will comply, and it will have the effect of being required,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cthe political winds have shifted in our direction on this, mostly because the capabilities are increasing, and there are concerns about advanced A.I. without safeguards.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that asked technology companies to voluntarily give the government oversight…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":840549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,245106,5959,315390,2426,91183,158,277,67,16852,132,68],"class_list":["post-840548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-computers-and-the-internet","tag-donald-j","tag-executive-orders-and-memorandums","tag-innovation","tag-politics-and-government","tag-technology","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-politics-and-government","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116683997434002342","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}