Trump signs an executive order granting the government access to advanced artificial intelligence models

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday establishing a voluntary framework allowing artificial intelligence developers to share their advanced models with the government before launching them.

The decision allows companies such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to give the government access to their most powerful models thirty days before they are scheduled to be released.

The decision came against the backdrop of concerns regarding the “Mythos” model developed by Anthropic, which refrained from offering it to the public due to its ability to reveal vulnerabilities in computer systems, including banking, government, and hospital systems.

The 30-day timeframe represents a compromise, as the initial leaked version of the decision proposed a period of up to 90 days of prior government review, while technology companies lobbied to reduce it to only 14 days.

According to media reports, Silicon Valley investor David Sachs, who serves as the Trump administration’s official for artificial intelligence and digital currencies, contacted the president warning him that the measure might slow innovation and harm the United States’ competitiveness in the artificial intelligence race with China, which surprised some White House officials who believed he supported the decision.

“Unnecessary regulation is the biggest threat to innovation in America,” Sachs wrote on the X platform last week, adding that winning the AI ​​race requires removing “bureaucratic obstacles.”

The executive order also mandates the Department of the Treasury, the National Security Agency, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency to establish a “Coordination Center for Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity,” in voluntary cooperation with companies and operators of critical infrastructure, to coordinate efforts to detect software vulnerabilities and accelerate their remediation.

On his first day after returning to the White House, Trump canceled a previous order issued by his predecessor, Joe Biden, to regulate oversight of artificial intelligence.