By Karen Freifeld, Jody Godoy and Courtney Rozen
May 21 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he had postponed signing an executive order on AI because he “didn’t like certain aspects of it.”
Trump had planned to sign the order at a ceremony on Thursday afternoon attended by CEOs of AI companies.
The order would create a voluntary framework for AI developers to engage with the U.S. government before the public release of covered models, two sources told Reuters on Wednesday.
The president also had planned to direct the U.S. government to use the advanced models to improve the cybersecurity defenses of government systems, along with networks owned by sectors that are vital to the nation’s economy, such as banks and hospitals, according to another source.
Concerns are growing across the U.S. government and in the private sector about the cybersecurity risks posed by powerful new AI systems, including Anthropic’s Mythos. Anthropic has warned that Mythos could supercharge complex cyberattacks, though cybersecurity experts told Reuters that fears of unfettered hacking are overstated.
The president’s executive order, if implemented, could hurt the industry’s profits if it slows the rollout of new models or prompts companies to change how they perform to address security concerns.
Trump, who spoke to reporters on Thursday in the Oval Office, did not say which parts of the order he didn’t like.
(Reporting by Courtney Rozen, writing by David Ljunggren, Editing by Franklin Paul and Deepa Babington)
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