A White House readout says the group will commission a PCAST report on AI risks and did not discuss new laws or rules. The FTC confirmed it sent OpenAI and Anthropic civil investigative demands, which are information requests.
President Donald Trump’s AI task force held its first meeting on Thursday and agreed to commission a report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology on risks in cybersecurity, biosecurity and “model control and accountability,” according to a White House account reported by Bloomberg and Reuters. The White House said the group will “develop protocols and mechanisms for labs to provide early warnings and systemized notifications to the government of breaches, hacks, jailbreaks, and other issues,” and set up a law enforcement and consumer protection coordination committee including the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission. The readout said the task force was formally established for 120 days and did not discuss any new laws or rules, Bloomberg reported. Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, who leads it, told CNBC on Friday the meeting was “very good.” Separately, the FTC has sent civil investigative demands to OpenAI and Anthropic in a consumer protection probe, an agency spokesperson confirmed to CBS News after Axios first reported them. Civil investigative demands are information requests, not findings of wrongdoing.
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