Americans for Responsible Innovation today applauded the White House’s release of a new executive order aimed at strengthening cybersecurity protections and establishing new safeguards for advanced AI systems. The executive order is one of the federal government’s strongest actions to date focused on cybersecurity and the national security risks posed by frontier AI models. The new action comes in the wake of Anthropic’s Mythos AI model, which has raised concerns about the cybersecurity vulnerabilities created by advanced AI.
Among the new safeguards outlined in the executive order are a new classified benchmarking process to assess the advanced cyber capabilities of AI models, 30-day predeployment access for the federal government, and establishment of an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse to discover and mitigate vulnerabilities.
“The White House is officially Mythos-pilled,” said ARI President Brad Carson. “The past couple months have served as a massive wake-up call for the kinds of vulnerabilities that AI can create. Today’s executive order signals that the Administration is taking those risks seriously. Policies on vulnerability detection, benchmarking, and pre-public access for the federal government are positive steps forward. Now it’s time for Congress to follow the White House’s lead and make these protections mandatory.”
Following news that the White House would begin development of an executive order related to AI model oversight and security, ARI shared guidance with the White House on how the Administration can conduct effective oversight of advanced AI models. ARI’s letter to the White House makes recommendations on scoping and covered domains, as well as the safeguards to bolster this system against gaming and abuse.
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Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to policy advocacy in the public interest, focused on emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI). Learn more at ARI.us.