The Trump Administration Has Created a De Facto Licensing System for Frontier AI Models - Center for American Progress
In early August, the Trump administration reportedly finalized but declined to make public a “voluntary framework” for developers of “covered frontier models,” which are best described as “highly capable general-purpose AI models that can perform a wide variety of tasks and match or exceed the capabilities present in today’s most advanced models.” This marked the final action required by the president’s June artificial intelligence (AI) executive order, a process that began with the April announcement that Anthropic’s new frontier AI model Mythos posed tremendous cybersecurity capabilities and hacking risks. The Trump administration’s unprecedented application of export controls in June to Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models, forcing their removal from public access, turned a secretive “voluntary framework” into something far more consequential: an emerging system of de facto licensing for America’s most powerful AI models that is “voluntary” in name only. Δdocument.getElementById( "ak