Artificial Intelligence and National Security

The Trump administration on Thursday announced a crackdown to stop Chinese companies from extracting capabilities from U.S. artificial intelligence models, saying Washington will identify offenders, build technical defenses and impose penalties (ABC News).

The story begins with the rapid rise of advanced artificial intelligence systems and growing worry that those systems and their training data could be copied or stolen. Tech companies built ever-larger models and collected massive datasets, while foreign competitors, including some linked to China, pushed to acquire the same capabilities. That combination made insiders with access to model code, training data, or system architecture a prime national security concern.

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles will meet Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at the White House to discuss Anthropic's new Mythos AI model. The meeting is meant to address security concerns around the model and to discuss possible federal use under a technical evaluation period.