Just a few days ago, the Trump administration released its long-anticipated Executive Order on Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security, one of the first policy responses to the “Mythos moment” from a few months ago. It takes a voluntary approach, stopping short of mandatory controls, and introduces a process for model evaluation. And, importantly for critical infrastructure owners and operators and the cybersecurity community at large, it directs the Treasury Department to work on a “clearinghouse” that will coordinate the nation’s approach to vulnerability discovery, validation, and patching.Â
What does the Executive Order get right when it comes to cybersecurity? What remains to be done? How might the EO’s proposed “clearinghouse” work in practice, and what other implications will the Trump administration’s EO have for cyber defenders, critical infrastructure owners and operators, and the cybersecurity community as a whole?
