Sources: the Trump administration is discussing an EO to form an AI working group that would examine AI oversight procedures, like vetting models before release
The Trump administration, which took a noninterventionist approach to artificial intelligence, is now discussing imposing oversight …
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Nicole Weatherholtz
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Trump Team Weighs Limited AI Oversight
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@bobgourley
Bob Gourley
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Oh no. Here we go again. Hoping the e/acc community can help inform policy here.
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@nicoperrino
Nico Perrino
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“Vetting” is just another word for “licensing.” When governments licensed expressive technologies in the past, they used their power to establish orthodoxies. It took civil libertarians centuries to fight off prior restraints on speech. That work continues . . .
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@adamthierer
Adam Thierer
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Waiting to see more details, but any sort of preemptive, pre-release “vetting” of AI models by the White House could be tantamount to a de facto licensing regime, which should certainly not be done via executive orders. The Trump administration's first order of business on AI [im…
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@tunguz
Bojan Tunguz
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Oh sh*t.
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@luke_metro
@luke_metro
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eventually, we all become Brandon [image]
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@kevinbankston
Kevin Bankston
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Plenty on the tech right condemned Biden's requirements for pre-model-release safety disclosures to that administration (rightly so IMO). Will they also condemn the even more constitutionally dubious idea of pre-release model review by this administration?
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@taylordbarkley
Taylor B.
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If the New York Times reporting is true, a UK-style pre-approval process would be a giant step backwards for innovation and an undoing of President Trump's excellent policy on AI so far. Such executive brand authority is ripe for abuse no matter the administration. A pre-approval
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@beffjezos
@beffjezos
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Not like this... This is not the way. Not a good precedent to set. Will lead to govt biasing the models to reinforce their views within the population. This is why decentralization of models is of.utmost importance. Freedom of synthetic thought should be protected. [image]
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@hamandcheese
Samuel Hammond
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My light-touch proposal is to use DPA Title VII to compel dual-use AI model developers to disclose their largest training runs (say, >=10^26 FLOPs) and the results of any internal testing. No onerous obligations and would automatically exempt little tech. Worth considering! 😅
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@annmarie
Annmarie Hordern
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NYT: The admin is discussing an executive order to create an A.I. working group that would bring together tech executives and government officials to examine potential oversight procedures, according to U.S. officials.... Among the potential plans is a formal government review
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@castrotech
Daniel Castro
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1. This is a full embrace of the precautionary principle. It would mean firms need government permission to innovate. That flips the default from building freely to asking first.
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@biancoresearch
Jim Bianco
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Will China allow Trump to vet its models?
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@bradrcarson
@bradrcarson
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The AI licensing regime has arrived. https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@beffjezos
@beffjezos
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Very bad idea. Administrations of the future will force labs to imbue the biases of their side into the models in order to get sign off. This will also reduce the number of labs who can ship models, having to deal with compliance. I cannot advise against this strongly enough.
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@chrisrmcguire
Chris McGuire
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This is a sorely needed regulatory pivot, with substantial geopolitical implications. If the US government vets AI models pre-release, and presumably requires companies to include certain safeguards, it also needs a global plan to preserve their security post-release.
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@hadas_gold
Hadas Gold
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Um whoa https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@yonashav
Yo Shavit
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President Trump, welcome to the SB1047 discourse
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@shakeelhashim
Shakeel
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This NYT piece gets something quite importantly wrong, btw — the UK has no rules on predeployment evals or safety standards, and everything I've heard is that we're a long way off from having them. [image]
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@thomas_woodside
Thomas Woodside
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We need more government oversight of frontier AI and I'm glad the administration is considering how to do that. As @BuchananBen and @deanwball said in their op ed today, we need to take the most severe risks more seriously. A couple of comments: (1) I don't think approving model
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@deanwball
Dean W. Ball
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Today's Hyperdimensional anticipates the admin taking a much stronger role in AI regulation and proposes a light-touch way forward. Overreaction—*regulation much more onerous and intrusive than what Ben Buchanan and I suggested in NYT today*—is a very real possibility. [image]
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@_nathancalvin
Nathan Calvin
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“White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They are Released” is currently the top story on the NYT website. Another striking indication that we have reached “the midgame” or “AI policy without training wheels” [image]
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@garymarcus
Gary Marcus
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This would be a very good idea, especially if implemented well. Best thing the Trump administration has considered doing around AI.
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@lilashroff
Lila
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as @matteo_wong and I wrote last week [image]
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@tenobrus
@tenobrus
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there's a lot to distrust about the current administration but increasing the levels of government oversight here from “basically zero” seems like an incredibly obviously good move that leaders at every single frontier lab have expressed desire for in the past [image]
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@dnvolz
Dustin Volz
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Fears of AI-enabled cyberattacks are driving a rethink within the Trump administration of how to handle the release of new models and whether some rules or regulations may in fact be necessary. https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@trevposts
Trevor Levin
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I hope @pmarca is able to safely flee the country now in case the White House does something he said “would impose tyranny far beyond anything even imagined by the Communists and Fascists of the 20th Century” [image]
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@masnick.com
Mike Masnick
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I mean, if you listen to the A16Z podcast, over and over again they talk about how Trump has freed up AI innovation, as compared to Biden who (they falsely claim) tried to end all AI tech. — But Biden never suggested pre-vetting models. That's all Trump. — Seems like maybe w…
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@attorneynora
Nora Benavidez
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Sounds like censorship and frankly deeply disturbing given the lack of expertise in house. But by all means, Biden's team pushing for covid lies to have platform policies applied by tech folks — that was more worrisome? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/t...
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Karl Bode
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I'm utterly fascinated by the modern art of journalistic simulacrum — at no point do this piece's four authors consider wandering anywhere close to the idea of corruption, or that Trump says a lot of things that are utterly meaningless, or that our regulators no longer function…
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@ericjgeller.com
Eric Geller
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On Trump's first day back in office, he eliminated a Biden-era mandate for AI firms to share their security test results with the govt, calling it unduly burdensome. — Now, after Mythos, the WH is considering much more onerous AI regulation. — Remarkable about-face. — www.n…
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New on @axios.com: As part of meetings with tech/cyber cos. + tech trade groups last week, ONCD floated an AI security framework that was already in the works before Mythos. — On the table: DoD red-teaming of AI deployments at the federa/state/local government levels. — www.a…
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@shakeelhashim
Shakeel
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As I said last week: https://x.com/... [image]
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@elidourado
Eli Dourado
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The proposal in this article is vague enough to possibly mean many things, but if it's a mandatory review of AI models before they can be released, that's in direct conflict with courts' First Amendment prior-restraint doctrine. Seems unlikely to fly. https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@bcardarella
Brian Cardarella
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Interesting idea, but I think it would be better to allow a more varied set of independant academic, philosophic, and saftey researchers do the work. The approach of asking tech execs to take on this responsibility is rediculous. https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
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@teknium
@teknium
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smh https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@danturrentine
Dan Turrentine
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the politics of this issue are moving so fast and both party's struggling to figure out a path forward, whether federal vetting of models or local approval of data centers. White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@bdowney
Brandon Downey
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As a thought, the same administration that doesn't want libraries to have books about gay people or trans kids in libraries should not be in charge of what models can be released or not. — That they are using ‘safety’ as an excuse is bad, actually!