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To force companies to be more transparent about rapid developments, Illinois would likely rely on “the Big Four accounting and auditing firms—Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and PwC—to audit their safety practices,” Wisor said. The required independent audits will likely frustrate Trump, who has tried and failed to stop states from implementing AI safety laws as Congress stalls on passing any legislation. For Trump, the priority has been to promote AI industry interests, but he began considering expanding federal government safety testing after Anthropic’s Mythos was released and the AI firm limited acces

Under the order, Trump directed the National Security Agency to set up a classified benchmarking process to determine the threshold for designating an AI model as a “covered frontier model.” The NSA must also collaborate with the US Treasury Department and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to establish a “cybersecurity clearinghouse” to scan and patch vulnerabilities at scale, as well as a voluntary framework for AI developers to submit models for safety testing. Critics have pointed out, however, that the text of the EO makes it clear how unprepared the government is