US Executive Order 14110 on safe, secure and trustworthy AI
Confirmed
Importance: major (4 of 5)The takeaway
President Biden signed a sweeping executive order on AI requiring developers of the most powerful models to share safety test results with the government and directing agencies on AI standards; it was revoked by President Trump on 20 January 2025.
Status
- Claim
Confirmed
- Our reporting
- High confidence
- Importance
- Major (4 of 5)
- Last verified
- 29 September 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 AstraIn its training data
- Claude Opus 5.5In its training data
- Gemini 4 HydrogenIn its training data
- Grok 4.7In its training data
It happened before the cutoffs of all four assistants, so it can be in their training data.
Key facts
- Signed 30 October 2023
- Reporting threshold for training runs above 10^26 operations
- Directed NIST to develop red-teaming standards; led to the US AI Safety Institute
- Revoked on 20 January 2025 by the incoming Trump administration
What happened
The order used the Defense Production Act to impose reporting requirements on frontier model developers and launched dozens of agency actions.
Why it matters
The most comprehensive US government action on AI at the time; its revocation in 2025 marked a sharp US policy turn toward deregulation.
Sources
2 sources from 2 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
2 sources: 1 primary, 1 reaction
Primary
- Federal Register: Executive Order 14110federalregister.gov, official
Reactions
- Wikipedia: Executive Order 14110en.wikipedia.org, discussion
Changes
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