White House Drafting Executive Order for Pre-Deployment AI Model Vetting — Modeled on FDA Drug Approval Process

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The White House is drafting an executive order requiring pre-release vetting of frontier AI models, similar to FDA drug approval. NEC Director Kevin Hassett stated models should 'go through a process so that they're released to the wild after they've been proven safe.' Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI have agreed to let CAISI evaluate models pre-release, joining existing partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic — over 40 model evaluations completed since 2024.