Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good

This week, the Trump administration backpedaled and signed agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI to run government safety checks on the firms' frontier AI models before and after their release. Previously, Donald Trump had stubbornly cast aside the Biden-era policy , dismissing the need for voluntary safety checks as overregulation blocking unbridled innovation. Soon after taking office, he took the extra step of rebranding the US AI Safety Institute to the Center for AI Standards