This morning the White House issued a National Security Memorandum declaring that 'AI is likely to affect almost all domains with national security significance'. Attracting technical talent and building computational power are now official national security priorities.
It is now the official policy that the United States must lead the world in the ability to train new foundation models. All government agencies will work to promote these capabilities.
DoS, DoD and DHS 'shall each use all available legal authorities to assist in attracting and rapidly bringing to the United States individuals with relevant technical expertise who would improve United States competitiveness in AI and related fields'
The Department of State, the DoD, DoE, and the DoC shall, 'as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, use existing authorities to make public investments and encourage private investments in strategic domestic and foreign AI technologies and adjacent fields.'
Classified threat evaluations of the frontier going forward, delivered directly to the President. 'The United States Government shall advance classified evaluations of advanced AI models’ capacity to generate or exacerbate deliberate chemical and biological threats.'