Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that calls for the creation of a voluntary framework in which AI companies would provide the government with access to new models for a 30 day review period before their release.

The order signaled a move toward more oversight of AI, in an administration that has generally taken a hands off approach to development of the technology. That said, the moves are hardly the kinds of stringent regulation some have called for, amid safety and security fears and mass job displacement.

The executive order read, “It is the policy of the United States to promote AI innovation and security by working collaboratively with the private sector to modernize government and private sector information systems and harden them against external threats; to protect American ingenuity and intellectual property from exploitation and theft by adversaries; and to cultivate America’s advanced AI-enabled capabilities.”

The executive order calls for designing a “voluntary framework” with AI developers. The framework includes a provision to provide the federal government “with access to covered frontier models, subject to appropriate confidentiality, cybersecurity, insider-risk, and intellectual-property protection, use, and nondisclosure requirements, for a period of up to 30 days before they plan to release such models to other trusted partners.”

The order also stated, “Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the creation of a mandatory governmental licensing, preclearance, or permitting requirement for the development, publication, release, or distribution of new AI models, including frontier models.”

Trump signed the order without fanfare. Last month, he had planned to gather tech executives to the White House to sign a previous version of the order. But the event was abruptly canceled, with Trump telling reporters, “I didn’t like certain aspects of it, I postponed it. I think it gets in the way of, we’re leading China, we’re leading everybody, and I don’t want to do anything that’s going to get in the way of that lead.” California Governor Gavin Newsom had signed an executive order on AI earlier in the day.

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