The Trump White House is ready to regulate AI, but it's exactly the wrong
body to do so, and its control could become a problem

Date:
Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:29:45 +0000

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Donald Trump just signed an executive order that gives the US Government unprecedented control over future AI frontier models. This could be a recipe for disaster

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter With little fanfare, US President Donald Trump may have signed one of the most important executive orders in his second term at the White House. With the " Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security " EO, the US government is finally putting its finger on the scale of AI development, more or less demanding that AI companies provide it with access to their Frontier Models for a period of 30 days before their public release.

Since no national US regulations currently exist for AI and much of the oversight is being left to a hodgepodge of mostly in-process state-level regulation, this is the first whiff of broad-based control. While most of the major AI companies, including Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, appear to support the order, they also appear caught off guard by the casual signing and have yet to weigh in. Latest Videos From Watch full video here: You may like "This framework can succeed only if it is applied uniformly across the United States": White House rolls out national legislative AI framework that looks
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On X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman posted a Bible verse at roughly the same time as Trump signed the order:

"One of the quotes I find most inspiring on a hard day: 'Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor
wisdom' Ecclesiastes 9:10"

That may or may not be a commentary on Trump's order, but one could fairly wonder whether there's a hint of concern there, and in other AI halls, about White House meddling in the course of AI. one of the quotes i find most inspiring on a hard day:"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom"Ecclesiastes 9:10 June 2, 2026 With new models coming out almost monthly and regular reports that China is closing the gap between Western models and its own model work, there are concerns that a delay to allow the US Department of War, the NSA, and other
US Government trusted partners to examine these models could slow down
OpenAI, Anthropic, and others, and result in them and the US falling behind this crucial race. Get daily insight, inspiration and deals in your inbox
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Anthropic, which is not exactly the US Government's favorite AI purveyor ,
may have sparked this move to, if not control, manage the scale and growth of AI when it released its potential cybersecurity-breaking Mythos model , which could find hidden vulnerabilities in almost any vintage software.

Ostensibly, this is the kind of risk the US Government will be looking for: any threat to cybersecurity or infrastructure. But the order doesn't really specify how these agencies will carry out their work, and, to be honest, I do wonder whether the Trump administration will be digging around for other "issues." Where have I seen this before? It's highly unusual for commercial software to run through a government agency for vetting unless, say, you're
in China, which demands access to all technology developed within its
borders. It's one of the reasons the US Government was never comfortable with the Chinese company ByteDance developing the TikTok algorithm. What to read next Sam Altman urges Anthropic and the Pentagon to 'find a way to work together' Google Pentagon deal shapes AI in war around 'any lawful government purpose' China refuses to buy Nvidias AI chips after Trumps tariff plan backfires

One has to wonder if global partners will soon be looking sideways at
Frontier Model work subsequently provided by Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft , and other US-based companies.

Who's to say the US government won't look for Frontier model responses that
go against the US government party line on various policies? Could they also look for DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) principles and demand they be scrubbed from Frontier models before they're released?

The problem here is that this is an executive order coming from a White House that has made no bones about where it stands on a range of social issues.
When people talk to their AI chatbots, they often discuss personal issues
that could concern topics that run afoul of the White House's current
policies and stances.

It would be better if regulation came from a bipartisan or third-party independent space, one with no stance on police beyond general principles of common good and fairness.

But because the US government cannot agree on anything, that's not going to happen.

The White House happily steps into this gap and is now in a position to regulate virtually every major model released within US shores. It might be helpful, but it could also be a recipe for disaster on many levels. Follow TechRadar on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds. Replace this check in here for a relevant ecomms block to include. If none, include a Hawk widget instead



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