Shift from hands-off approach comes amid security concerns and policy changes.

On Monday, The New York Times reported that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is debating the possibility of subjecting artificial intelligence (AI) models to review before they are made available to the public.

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According to official sources and people familiar with the deliberations, the U.S. government is considering an executive order to create an AI task force.

This body would bring together technology sector executives and government officials to examine possible oversight procedures, including a formal state review process for new models.

White House officials have already conveyed these plans to executives of leading companies such as Google, OpenAI and Anthropic in meetings held last week.

Until now, the Trump administration had defended a nonintervention approach to give Silicon Valley free rein in developing this cutting-edge technology in order to outpace China in the AI race.

A determining factor in this shift in stance appears to have been the recent announcement by Anthropic of its cybersecurity model Mythos, a program that the company itself decided not to release to the public — but only to a group of American companies — due to its extreme capacity to identify critical vulnerabilities in software, which could trigger a cybersecurity crisis.

This shift also coincides with a restructuring in White House technology policy following the departure in March of David Sacks, known as the “AI czar.” Now, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have taken on a leading role in shaping AI policy.

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Source: EFE

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