President Biden signed the executive order on safe, secure and trustworthy AI (EO 14110). It directed more than 50 federal entities to take over 100 specific actions; the provision bearing directly on private companies was a reporting duty. Invoking the Defense Production Act, the order required developers of "dual-use foundation models" above a compute threshold to report their training runs and the results of red-team safety testing to the federal government. Until NIST issued guidance, that threshold was set at 10^26 integer or floating-point operations. It was the broadest action on AI taken by the US government at the time.
30October 2023
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Biden signs the executive order on safe and trustworthy AI
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20 January 2025 · Development
President Trump revoked the order on his first day in office. On 23 January he signed EO 14179, "Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence", putting the promotion of development ahead of risk management.