White House wants to vet powerful AI models for risks − a computer scientist explains why AI safety is so difficult

Once powerful AI models are released, it’s nearly impossible to keep them from being misused. Minimizing the risk means making safety the top priority in developing the systems.

By: Ahmed Hamza, University of Colorado Boulder, The Conversation

Outlets: The Conversation

Published: May 5, 2026

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Last Updated: 2 months, 3 weeks ago

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By Ahmed Hamza, University of Colorado Boulder

The Trump administration is looking to develop a process that would have the federal government review the safety of powerful artificial intelligence models before approving their release, according to a report in The New York Times on May 4, 2026. The move would stand in contrast to the administration’s generally anti-regulatory approach to industry and comes in the wake of Anthropic voluntarily postponing the release of its latest …

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