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President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing executive-branch agencies to replace “artificial intelligence” and “AI” with “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in applicable non-statutory materials. The order preserves the statutory AI definition in 15 U.S.C. § 9401(3) unless Congress or a future president changes it, while requiring the White House science and technology office to propose a federal SI definition within 60 days. The administration also introduced America.gov, an AI-powered chatbot for navigating federal services.
At a White House technology summit, Trump and leaders from Alphabet/Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, NVIDIA, and xAI signed a voluntary White House accord, also described as the Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities. The nonbinding, “morally binding” commitment calls for internal monitoring and validation, independent external assessments, and board-level oversight of frontier AI systems, with emphasis on cybersecurity and biological and chemical risks. Participants also pledged to develop shared safety standards, while Trump said the administration could appoint an overseer and potentially convert elements of the agreement into regulation.
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Trump unveiled America.gov, an AI chatbot intended to help Americans navigate U.S. government services. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said it could eventually support fully online first-time passport applications.
Trump and leaders from Anthropic, Google/Alphabet, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Nvidia signed a voluntary White House accord on frontier-model responsibilities. It calls for internal monitoring and validation, independent external assessments, board-level oversight, and shared safety standards, including attention to cyber, biological, and chemical risks.
President Trump signed an executive order directing executive-branch agencies to use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in applicable non-statutory materials. The order retains the existing statutory AI definition pending possible legislative or future executive changes and requires a proposed federal definition within 60 days.
OpenAI halted the rollout of a new model because of safety concerns, one day before the White House AI announcement.
During Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Washington, the United States and China agreed to establish a channel for handling AI-related incidents.
A January 2025 White House order directed development of an AI action plan intended to preserve U.S. leadership in the technology.
NIST's Center for AI Standards and Innovation signed agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI to test frontier models before and after public release.
A White House executive order on AI innovation and U.S. cybersecurity stated that its framework did not authorize mandatory licensing or preclearance for frontier models.
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President Donald Trump announced plans to establish an **“AI Force”** and appoint an AI czar, likening the effort to the creation of the U.S. Space Force. He said the initiative would promote rather than constrain the AI sector, arguing that maintaining U.S. leadership over China is essential and asserting AI could account for as much as 25% of U.S. GDP; no operational structure, authority, or implementation timeline was disclosed. The announcement rejects calls for a slowdown in advanced-model development and dismisses AI-safety warnings, as well as opposition to data-center construction, as a “hoax.” It follows renewed warnings from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and current and former AI-industry personnel about loss-of-control, AI-agent, botnet, and cybersecurity risks—concerns also amplified by reported agent-testing incidents and by data-center objections involving power prices and local impacts. Trump and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang opposed slowing AI progress.
Sep 24, 2026
President Trump signed an executive order, **"Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security,"** that directs federal agencies to strengthen cyber defenses across national security, defense, and civilian systems while promoting U.S. AI innovation. The order tasks **CISA, NSA, OMB, Treasury, ONCD**, and other agencies with near-term deadlines to prioritize cyber defense, expand AI-enabled defensive capabilities, and issue operational directives where appropriate. It also creates an **AI cybersecurity clearinghouse** to coordinate voluntary vulnerability scanning, validation, remediation, and patch distribution with AI companies and critical infrastructure operators, alongside a classified benchmarking process to determine when a system qualifies as a **"covered frontier model."** The final order adopts a narrower oversight approach than earlier drafts, preserving a **voluntary** framework for developers to share advanced models with the federal government and selected trusted partners before broader release while explicitly rejecting mandatory licensing, preclearance, or permitting. Reporting indicates the administration scaled back stronger pre-deployment review proposals after internal debate over how aggressively to address frontier-model cyber risks, with concerns centered on threats to critical infrastructure and the financial system and on whether the **Office of the National Cyber Director** has sufficient authority to coordinate the response. The order also directs the attorney general to prioritize criminal enforcement against actors who use AI to illegally access, damage, or exploit computer systems and data.
Sep 1, 2026
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey urged strong federal AI oversight and clear safety standards after President Donald Trump dismissed AI-safety concerns and argued that constraints could hand China an advantage. Congressional action on frontier-AI safety appears unlikely before the midterm elections: Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson favor industry self-regulation, while unresolved disputes include mandatory risk frameworks, independent testing, shutdown mechanisms, development pauses, federal preemption of state laws, and the scope of oversight for model developers. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Greg Cezar introduced the **Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act**, which would pause specified advanced-AI development, establish a cabinet-level enforcement agency, and impose penalties of up to 20 years' imprisonment for violations. The push follows calls for restraint from leaders at Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and xAI amid concerns over loss of control, misuse in bioweapons research, and intense competitive pressure; proponents argue that durable controls would require both a U.S. regulatory framework and international coordination, particularly with China.
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