CBCF EXECUTIVE ORDER TRACKER Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security Executive Order #14409
Date Issued: June 2, 2026 Topic: Artificial Intelligence, Technology, National Security
WHAT DOES THIS EXECUTIVE ORDER DO? This executive order directs the federal government to accelerate the use of advanced artificial intelligence in cybersecurity and to coordinate national security action around increasingly capable AI systems. It rests on the administration’s policy of promoting AI innovation by “slashing the bureaucratic constraints that the prior administration placed on America’s AI developers,” The order frames AI governance around innovation, private-sector collaboration, cyber defense, and protection of American intellectual property from foreign adversaries. The order instructs agencies to harden government and privatesector information systems against AI-enabled cyber threats. The order creates a new AI cybersecurity clearinghouse, led by the Treasury Department in voluntary collaboration with the AI industry and critical infrastructure operators, to coordinate the scanning, discovery, and patching of software vulnerabilities. It names rural hospitals, community banks, and local utilities as intended beneficiaries of expanded federal cybersecurity tools, including access to advanced AI models.
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