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Executive Order 14409 creates classified cyber benchmarking for covered frontier models and a clearinghouse

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Executive Order 14409 directs Treasury, NSA and CISA to develop a classified benchmarking process to assess advanced cyber capabilities of AI models and designate covered frontier models, with a voluntary framework for pre-release government and trusted-partner access. It also orders an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse to coordinate vulnerability scanning, validation and remediation with industry, and states it does not create mandatory licensing or pre-clearance.

Why it matters

It is a US mechanism that designates models by cyber capability and gives the government early access before release to other trusted partners.

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  • Within 30 days, Treasury, with the National Cyber Director, NSA and CISA, is to form an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse.Sec. 2(d)
  • Within 60 days, Treasury, NSA and CISA are to develop and maintain a classified benchmarking process for advanced AI cyber capabilities used to designate covered frontier models.Sec. 3(a)
  • Voluntary framework lets developers ask whether a model is a covered frontier model, give the Federal Government access up to 30 days before release to other trusted partners, and work with the government to select trusted partners for early access.Sec. 3(b)(i)-(iii)
  • Sec. 3(c) states the order does not authorize mandatory licensing, preclearance or permitting for model release.Sec. 3(c)

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