Last week we were expecting an Executive Order on Thursday.

Then Trump cancelled it, and said he wouldn’t sign it because he was worried it would be too burdensome.

Then, with one change, he went ahead and signed it on Tuesday anyway.

The Overton Window has shifted. Nothing was not really a viable option anymore.

The Previously Dead Executive Order

For several days, we thought that David Sacks, together with others like Elon Musk, had successfully lobbied to kill the Executive Order. The ‘My Offer Is Nothing’ faction looked to have won. Word on the street was the order was essentially dead.

Dean Ball and Daniel Kokotajlo agreed, with the Executive Order looking dead, that the particular regime in the Executive Order is likely worse than nothing. This is plausible, given it did not exactly involve a lot of deliberate thought.

Nothing, however, was clearly not going to cut it.

We are facing, and will increasingly face, calls for action to regulate AI.

Representative Lori Trahan: There's no federal law on the books governing how the most powerful AI systems in the world are built, tested or deployed. No independent [...]

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Outline:

(00:46) The Previously Dead Executive Order

(05:18) The Return Of The Executive Order

(05:59) What Does The Executive Order Do

(07:11) Thirty Days Is a Lot Less Than Ninety Days

(07:30) Yes Your Frontier Lab Will Be Participating

(08:10) The Rules Will Be Classified

(08:40) Yes Prior Restraint With Confidential Testing Is Rather Regulatory

(14:38) We Have Concerns

(18:26) Saving Face

(21:37) How Frontier Or Different Are We Talking Here

(22:09) What To Watch For

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First published:
June 3rd, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yDnfHrBzKc2pNQNdw/trump-signs-executive-order-for-ai-testing-prior-to-frontier

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