Trump plan to test AI models has a problem—US security teams were gutted by DOGE

On Tuesday, Donald Trump finally signed his executive order expanding the government's efforts to conduct voluntary safety testing of frontier AI models. Now, critics are warning that the order may be short-sighted, offering only performative reassurances that the government is actively monitoring for AI risks, while changing very little about how and when models are deployed. Last month, Trump abruptly canceled a signing event , where he had hoped to launch an earlier version of the EO with CEO