President Donald Trump has issued an executive order targeting artificial intelligence advancement and security measures, the White House announced Tuesday.
The directive instructs federal agencies to create cybersecurity standards for sophisticated AI systems, based on the order’s text made public by the White House. The mandate also tells agencies to focus on strengthening cyber protection throughout the government.
The directive requests that the U.S. Treasury secretary establish an AI “cybersecurity clearinghouse, in voluntary collaboration with the AI industry and operators of critical infrastructure, that coordinates and deconflicts scanning for software vulnerabilities, discovers and validates such vulnerabilities, and coordinates and prioritizes remediation and distribution of vulnerability patches,” according to the order’s language.
