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Trump Administration Considers Mandatory Pre-Release Vetting Of AI Models
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https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/trump-administration-considers-mandatory-pre-release-vetting-of-ai-models [tomshardware.com]
The new approach sounds a lot like the UK's AI Security [tomshardware.com] Institute model, where government bodies evaluate frontier models against safety benchmarks [tomshardware.com] before and after deployment. Officials told the New York Times that the NSA, the Office of the National Cyber Director, and the Director of National Intelligence could oversee the review. Critically, the system would grant the government early access to models without blocking their release.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the catalyst for all this appears to have been Anthropic’s Mythos model [tomshardware.com], which the company’s marketing described as capable of finding thousands of critical software vulnerabilities and too dangerous for public release.
That naturally attracted a lot of unwanted government attention at a time when the Trump administration is already locking horns with Anthropic over the collapsed $200 million Pentagon contract [tomshardware.com]. The Pentagon designated Anthropic a supply chain risk [tomshardware.com] after the company refused to remove guardrails on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, though a federal judge later called that "Orwellian."
The NSA has already used Mythos to assess vulnerabilities in government Microsoft [tomshardware.com] software deployments, even as other agencies remain cut off from Anthropic's tools. Some analysts have questioned whether Mythos's capabilities [tomshardware.com] justify Anthropic's dramatic framing, with some studies [tomshardware.com] finding that cheaper models can achieve comparable results in vulnerability discovery.
A White House official told The New York Times that talk of an executive order is "speculation," and that any announcement would come from Trump himself. Dean Ball, a former senior adviser on AI in the Trump administration, told the newspaper that officials are trying to avoid overregulation while keeping pace with the technology, calling it a “tricky balance.”
