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This column recently lauded President Donald Trump’s deregulatory zeal and warned that his extremely wise decision to reject Biden policy and endorse the freedom of Americans to develop artificial-intelligence technologies was in danger of being reversed. Sadly the president is now suddenly looking less zealous. Amrith Ramkumar reports for the Journal: President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday asking artificial-intelligence companies to give the administration access to powerful models 30 days before public release, just two weeks after shelving a previous version. The order, which aims to increase the federal government’s oversight of the technology, also asks national-security and cyber officials to work with agency heads and top tech companies to address software vulnerabilities identified by models like Anthropic’s Mythos, the White House said. The executive order is a slimmed-down version of the one Trump shelved on May 21. That version included the cybersecurity component but would have asked companies to let the government review models for a longer period, up to 90 days. Trump said at the time that he didn’t want to impede AI’s economic benefits or set the nation back in the tech race with China.
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