White House reportedly considers mandatory government vetting of AI models before release, executive order under discussion
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The Trump administration is in early discussions about an executive order that would create a government review process for AI models before public release.
Key facts
Anthropic’s monthly lobbying spend grew by roughly 511% over Trump’s second term, reaching $1.1 million per month by late 2025, the Washington Examiner reported in early February
In February, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic an ultimatum: remove guardrails on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, or lose its $200 million Pentagon contract
This Monday, Dean Ball, a former Trump administration AI adviser, and Ben Buchanan, a former Biden White House AI adviser, co-authored a New York Times op-ed calling on Congress to mandate
In October last year, David Sacks, then the White House's AI and crypto czar, publicly accused Anthropic of "running a sophisticated regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering," in a post
Summary
The proposed order would establish a working group of tech executives and government officials to develop oversight procedures, with White House staff briefing leaders from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI on the plans last week, according to unnamed U.S. officials cited by the New York Times. The discussions, if true, would represent a reversal for an administration that revoked Biden's AI safety executive order within hours of taking office in January 2025 and spent most of last year talking itself up as the industry's deregulatory champion.