The Trump administration has reversed a September order that blocked US AI labs from sharing unreleased frontier models with Britain's AI Security Institute. The 17-day freeze kept Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5.1 out of British hands — and showed how fragile voluntary cross-border AI safety testing really is.
The Trump administration formed a "Super Intelligence Force" led by DNI Jay Clayton, tasked with delivering a federal AI risk assessment report within 120 days. The same week, the White House convened OpenAI, Anthropic, and NVIDIA executives and settled three voluntary safety principles.
On September 29, Trump signed the "Super Intelligence Accord" at the White House with executives from Google, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and NVIDIA, requiring frontier AI systems to have internal controls, independent evaluations, and board oversight. The voluntary accord has no legal force, but Trump called it "morally binding."