White House Wants to Review AI Models Before Roll Out

The White House reportedly wants to give government agencies a chance to review advanced AI models before release.

An executive order on the plan could come as soon as Thursday (May 21), The Information reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.

The report followed a briefing earlier this week hosted by the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director for companies that, per the sources, included OpenAI, Anthropic and Reflection AI, plus cloud providers, semiconductor and cybersecurity firms and banks.

According to the report, the executive order would create a voluntary framework for developers of frontier models to notify the government about planned new AI releases, sources said. AI labs would share their models with the government up to 90 days before their release, they added.

AI companies, meanwhile, are lobbying to share their models with the government two weeks in advance of release, the sources said.

The order would let government agencies including the National Security Agency, ONCD, Office of Science and Technology Policy and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency determine which models are subject to review. Those agencies would establish a classified process for evaluating models that fall under that designation, the sources said.

The White House in March introduced a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence. This is a set of legislative recommendations the administration says is designed to help American industry innovate while letting the public benefit from the technology and providing a consistent national policy.

“Importantly, this framework can succeed only if it is applied uniformly across the United States,” the White House said in a news release. “A patchwork of conflicting state laws would undermine American innovation and our ability to lead in the global AI race.”

These efforts come as American businesses are both adopting AI and dealing with threats related to the technology.

For example, research by PYMNTS Intelligence and Trulioo finds that larger enterprises are increasingly the ones dealing with today’s cresting wave of AI-generated cyberattacks.

The report found that a majority (58%) of companies with more than $1 billion in yearly revenue reported encountering AI-generated documents or deepfake-related attacks in the last year, a full 11 percentage points above smaller businesses.

“Larger firms, with their larger footprints, can be more susceptible to the AI-powered spoofing of identity documents thanks to the industrialization of deepfakes and automated data scraping capabilities by adversarial cyber actors,” PYMNTS wrote this week.