Wiles vs Sacks: can the white house revive a dead ai order?
the white house is debating reviving a canceled ai order that requires mandatory safety testing for models like gpt-5.5. the outcome hinges on a power struggle between susie wiles and david sacks.
the trump administration is attempting to resurrect a nixed executive order establishing a voluntary framework requiring ai labs to grant the white house early access to models like anthropic's mythos and openai's gpt-5.5 for security testing. treasury secretary scott bessent and chief of staff susie wiles are leading the push, citing national security risks regarding software vulnerabilities. however, former ai czar david sacks strongly opposes the move, having previously urged trump to scrap the order to prevent regulatory overreach and maintain us leverage over china. the draft proposes a 90-day pre-release window, though executives worry about sharing unfinished models.