White House AI advisor David Sacks and the White House set the record straight after The New York Times implied that the Trump administration might be micromanaging AI companies with its new executive order.
In an X post, Sacks praised Trump’s newly signed executive order on Tuesday, directing the Department of War, the Department of Homeland Security, and various other parts of the administration to work with the AI industry to ensure significant new AI models advance U.S. interests and do not pose a security threat. Sacks specifically addressed that while there have been concerns that “this could morph into an ‘FDA for AI,’” this executive order “expressly forbids the creation of a new licensing, preclearance, or permitting regime.”
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