Weeks after postponing a previous draft of the same order, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on June 2 asking artificial intelligence (AI) companies to voluntarily submit their frontier models for government review 30 days before a full public release.
The order asks some AI firms to participate in a voluntary evaluation process that aims to assess each model’s “advanced cyber capabilities” to determine at which point it could be designated as a “covered frontier model,” or one that could potentially pose cybersecurity or critical infrastructure risks.
Those firms whose models are evaluated to be “covered frontier models” will then be asked to collaborate with the federal government to select “trusted partners” that will gain access to the new models to “promote secure innovation and strengthen the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure” before the public gains access….