AI Cyber Models Push Trump Administration Toward Pre-Release Safety Reviews
Kevin Roose and Casey Newton argue that the Trump administration’s shift toward AI safety is being driven by frontier models that can find and chain software vulnerabilities, not by a broad ideological conversion. Drawing on New York Times reporting about a possible executive order for pre-release model review, they describe a policy scramble over Anthropic’s Mythos, chip access to China and which federal agency should judge dangerous models. Nikesh Arora, Palo Alto Networks’ chief executive, says the cyber problem is already operational: attacks that once unfolded over days may soon move in minutes.
Hard Fork·May 15, 2026·21 min read
