(Bloomberg) — White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles said the US government would refrain from choosing winners and losers in artificial intelligence, the latest signal from a top aide to President Donald Trump as his administration prepares new AI policy directives.
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Wiles issued the statement Wednesday from her new account on X, as questions swirl about whether the administration will seek to screen new models and if it will deescalate its feud with Anthropic PBC.
“When it comes to AI and cyber security, President Trump and his administration are not in the business of picking winners and losers,” Wiles wrote. “This administration has one goal; ensure the best and safest tech is deployed rapidly to defeat any and all threats.”
She added that the administration “will continue to lead an America First effort that empowers America’s great innovators, not bureaucracy, to drive safe deployment of powerful technologies while keeping America safe.”
Wiles, who has taken a lead role in crafting the latest round of AI policy, offered no specifics about the scope or timing of any directive.
The White House did not immediately respond to questions about the post or offer any elaboration late Wednesday.
Yet the statement appeared to downplay the chance that the administration would step in to try and directly scrutinize new models.
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The Wall Street Journal reported earlier in the week that the administration was considering some type of procedure.
National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett said earlier on Wednesday that the administration was studying an order to set some sort of review process, likening it to a pharmaceutical review.
It would spell out how future models “that also potentially create vulnerabilities should go through a process so that they’re released to the wild after they’ve been proven safe, just like an FDA drug,” Hassett said in an interview with Fox Business.
He added that it was “really quite likely” that any testing spelled out under the order would ultimately extend to all AI companies.
On Tuesday, the Commerce Department announced the expansion of a voluntary program to test AI models before their release. Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Microsoft Corp. and xAI have agreed to give the US government access to their models to assess the systems’ capabilities and help improve security. OpenAI and Anthropic were already part of the initiative, led by the department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation.
