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Failed Executive Order AI Safety

Biden AI EO

Executive Order 14110 (Safe, Secure, Trustworthy AI)

Comprehensive federal AI policy requiring safety testing, reporting, and standards development. Revoked in January 2025 by new administration.

Jurisdiction

United States

Enacted

Oct 30, 2023

Effective

TBD

Enforcement

Various federal agencies

Revoked January 2025

Federal Register

Why It Matters

Demonstrates instability of US federal AI policy. EO-driven requirements can evaporate overnight — treat as unstable unless codified in law or contracts.

Recent Developments

Revoked by EO 14148 (Jan 2025). New policy emphasizes deregulation and "sustaining AI dominance." Compliance roadmaps based on this EO are now stale.

Who Must Comply

  • Federal agencies
  • AI developers (via reporting requirements)

Safety Provisions

  • Required dual-use foundation model reporting
  • Safety testing requirements for powerful AI
  • Directed agency AI governance actions

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United States

Focus Areas

General regulation

Cite This

APA

United States. (2023). Executive Order 14110 (Safe, Secure, Trustworthy AI).

Related Regulations

In Effect US

White House AI Legislative Framework

Non-binding White House framework outlining seven legislative pillars for Congress, including child safety protections, federal preemption of state AI laws, liability limitations for AI developers, intellectual property protections, free speech safeguards, AI infrastructure investment, and workforce development. Calls for a unified national standard superseding state AI regulations while preserving state child safety, consumer protection, and anti-fraud laws.

In Effect US

EO 14409

US executive order directing federal cyber-defense upgrades and establishing a voluntary framework under which advanced-AI developers may submit 'covered frontier models' for classified national-security benchmarking up to 30 days before release. Expressly prohibits any mandatory governmental licensing, preclearance, or permitting requirement for the development, publication, release, or distribution of AI models.

In Effect KR

KR AI Ethics Principles

Government-wide AI ethics principles issued under Article 27 of Korea's AI Framework Act, setting three core values and seven principles applying across the AI lifecycle. Non-binding, addressed to AI suppliers, users, and government.

Enacted US-CA

CA SB 1276

Amends California's sexual-exploitation-of-a-child offence (Penal Code Section 311.3) so that it covers digitally altered or artificial-intelligence-generated matter depicting a person under 18 engaged in sexual conduct, and adds knowingly downloading, streaming or accessing such matter through electronic or digital media to the prohibited conduct. It makes the same extension to the definition of sexual exploitation that triggers mandated reporting under the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act (Section 11165.1).

Enacted US-CA

CA SB 503

Requires developers and deployers of AI clinical decision support systems used by health facilities, clinics and physician practices to make reasonable efforts to identify systems with a known or reasonably foreseeable risk of biased impacts on people with protected characteristics. Developers must mitigate those risks and give deployers an intended-use and risk statement plus documentation on training data, evaluation and data governance; deployers must regularly monitor the systems and mitigate.

In Effect US-MD

MD HB 895

First US state law to outright ban surveillance-based personalized pricing in food retail and third-party delivery, prohibiting use of protected class data and dynamic pricing tied to consumer personal data with limited exceptions for cost-based pricing, loyalty programs, and explicit consent.

Last updated January 22, 2026. Verify against primary sources before relying on this information.