There you have it! A new Executive Order just landed — "Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligenc…
June 2, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 comments
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There you have it! A new Executive Order just landed — "Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security" — signed June 2, 2026.
And for once, I'm going to say it plainly: this is a good one.
Here's why.
It does the one thing Washington almost never gets right with technology. It pairs security WITH innovation instead of strangling one to pretend you're protecting the other.
Section 3 is the part everyone should read. It explicitly states there will be NO mandatory licensing, NO preclearance, NO permitting requirement to build, publish, or release a new AI model — including frontier models.
Now read the next sentence carefully.
That single line kills the regulatory-capture playbook the biggest labs have been quietly lobbying for. The "only we can be trusted with powerful AI" pitch. Dead on arrival. Innovation stays open. Builders stay free.
But it doesn't go soft on security either:
— Within 30 days, CISA issues Binding Operational Directives to harden civilian federal systems with AI-enabled defensive tools.
— Treasury stands up an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse in 30 days — voluntary, industry-driven — to deconflict vulnerability scanning, validate flaws, and push patches fast.
— Frontier-model access for rural hospitals, community banks, and local utilities. The targets nobody defends.
— DoJ told to actually prosecute AI-enabled hacking under 1030 and 1343.
— A classified benchmarking process to flag which models cross into real offensive cyber capability — voluntary collaboration, not a government chokehold.
30 days. 60 days. Real deadlines.
I deployed AI on the most sensitive government networks in this country. I lived the part where the policy was right and the execution died in a committee. So here's my one builder's warning:
An EO is a starting gun, not a finish line.
If this gets captured by the same contractors who turned every "modernization" into a decade-long PowerPoint, it fails. If a "voluntary clearinghouse" becomes a mandatory bottleneck in practice, it fails. If "trusted partners" means the same three primes and zero commercial speed, it fails.
Get this implemented at commercial speed, keep it model-agnostic, fix the acquisition and ATO process underneath it — and America wins the part of the AI race that actually matters.
The framing is right. The deadlines are aggressive. Now the only question is execution.
About time.
Thoughts?
And for once, I'm going to say it plainly: this is a good one.
Here's why.
It does the one thing Washington almost never gets right with technology. It pairs security WITH innovation instead of strangling one to pretend you're protecting the other.
Section 3 is the part everyone should read. It explicitly states there will be NO mandatory licensing, NO preclearance, NO permitting requirement to build, publish, or release a new AI model — including frontier models.
Now read the next sentence carefully.
That single line kills the regulatory-capture playbook the biggest labs have been quietly lobbying for. The "only we can be trusted with powerful AI" pitch. Dead on arrival. Innovation stays open. Builders stay free.
But it doesn't go soft on security either:
— Within 30 days, CISA issues Binding Operational Directives to harden civilian federal systems with AI-enabled defensive tools.
— Treasury stands up an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse in 30 days — voluntary, industry-driven — to deconflict vulnerability scanning, validate flaws, and push patches fast.
— Frontier-model access for rural hospitals, community banks, and local utilities. The targets nobody defends.
— DoJ told to actually prosecute AI-enabled hacking under 1030 and 1343.
— A classified benchmarking process to flag which models cross into real offensive cyber capability — voluntary collaboration, not a government chokehold.
30 days. 60 days. Real deadlines.
I deployed AI on the most sensitive government networks in this country. I lived the part where the policy was right and the execution died in a committee. So here's my one builder's warning:
An EO is a starting gun, not a finish line.
If this gets captured by the same contractors who turned every "modernization" into a decade-long PowerPoint, it fails. If a "voluntary clearinghouse" becomes a mandatory bottleneck in practice, it fails. If "trusted partners" means the same three primes and zero commercial speed, it fails.
Get this implemented at commercial speed, keep it model-agnostic, fix the acquisition and ATO process underneath it — and America wins the part of the AI race that actually matters.
The framing is right. The deadlines are aggressive. Now the only question is execution.
About time.
Thoughts?