White House Releases Executive Order on AI
The order directs federal agencies to strengthen AI-enabled cybersecurity defenses and coordinate with private industry on secure AI deployment.
On June 2, President Trump signed an executive order entitled “Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security.” As outlined in its text, the order is intended to:
promote AI innovation and security by working collaboratively with the private sector to modernize government and private sector information systems and harden them against external threats; to protect American ingenuity and intellectual property from exploitation and theft by adversaries; and to cultivate America’s advanced AI-enabled capabilities.
Section 2 of the order, “Upgrading American Systems for Advanced AI,” directs the Committee on National Security Systems as well as the Department of Defense to “prioritize the cyber defense” of their respective information systems within 30 days of publication (June 2) by “taking appropriate and expeditious action consistent with the purpose of this order.” It also directs the Department of Homeland Security, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in consultation with the Office of Management and Budget, the assistant to the president for National Security Affairs, and the National Cyber Director to release binding operational directives to prioritize U.S. cyber defense, establish federal programs that enhance AI-enabled defensive tools, and expand access to cybersecurity tools and services. The order also directs various department and agency heads—including the national cyber director, the secretary of defense, the director of the National Security Agency, the secretary of homeland security, and the director of CISA—to form an “AI cybersecurity clearinghouse” in collaboration with the AI industry and operators of criminal infrastructure in order to detect and patch potential vulnerabilities.
Section 3 of the order, “Secure Frontier Model Deployment,” directs within 60 days the aforementioned agency leaders to "develop and maintain a benchmarking progress to assess the advanced cyber capabilities of AI models and determine the threshold at which an AI model should be designated a ‘covered frontier model’ for the purposes of this order,” and design a voluntary framework for AI developers to engage and collaborate with the federal government.
And Section 4 of the order, “Protection Against Criminal Actors,” directs the attorney general to “prioritize the enforcement of 18 U.S.C. 1028, 18 U.S.C. 1030, 18 U.S.C. 1343, and all other applicable Federal criminal laws against anyone who utilizes AI to illegally access or damage a computer without authorization, or who utilizes AI while engaged in such illegal access to further any other crime.”
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