On June 2, 2026, President Trump signed the Executive Order 14409 („Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security„”) was issued. EO 14409 follows on from the repeal of the earlier EO 14110 from President Biden.
You can tell right from the introduction what kind of thing the EO is:
The United States continues to lead the world in artificial intelligence (AI) because of the tremendous talent and innovation in our AI industry, and because we refuse to stifle this innovation with overly burdensome regulation. My Administration has spurred tremendous technological growth and economic investment […]
The fact that the government does not want to slow down the development of AI systems is, of course, not merely a matter of economic promotion, but is also in the government’s own interest — the EO is primarily intended to ensure privileged access to the most powerful models, at least in the interest of national security as well.
To this end, the EO calls for measures in the area of cybersecurity, at high altitudes, but above all for closer integration of the development of particularly high-performance models with government involvement. The means to achieve this is voluntary cooperation, although “voluntary” should probably be viewed on a spectrum:
- Voluntary Framework: Government officials and developers are to work together to develop a voluntary framework for classifying AI models.
- „Covered Frontier Model“: A benchmarking process within this framework is intended to evaluate the capabilities of AI models in the cybersecurity domain and establish a threshold above which a model is considered a „Covered Frontier Model.“ However, the criteria are „classified,“ meaning they are not publicly available.
- Early access: Developers can grant the administration privileged access to Covered Frontier Models up to 30 days before the model is shared with other „trusted partners.“.
- Trusted Partners: The administration and developers will jointly determine the „trusted partners“ who are to be granted early access to the models.
The EO leaves open the question of what incentives will be offered for such cooperation.