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Biden’s AI national security memo makes the AI Safety Institute labs’ main contact

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Source: GovInfo (Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents)Also reported by The White House (archived statement)

President Biden signed a national security memorandum on AI on 24 October 2024. It made the US AI Safety Institute at NIST the government’s primary point of contact with private AI developers for voluntary pre- and post-deployment testing of frontier models, told it to pursue preliminary testing of at least two frontier models within 180 days, and set up a companion Framework to Advance AI Governance and Risk Management in National Security.

Why it matters

Frontier labs had a named federal counterpart for safety and national-security testing, and defence and intelligence agencies got a governance framework for their own AI use.

When
24 Oct 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0047
Who
The White House, U.S. AI Safety Institute, NIST; Joe Biden

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from GovInfo and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at GovInfo

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2024-0047: “Biden’s AI national security memo makes the AI Safety Institute labs’ main contact.” wheresthe.ai, 24 Oct 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/us-national-security-memorandum-ai-2024-10/ (source: GovInfo (Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents)).

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