Found fast, fixed slow: The gap the AI clearinghouse must close - CyberScoop

Oh, splendid. Another government committee to fix AI, which is about as reassuring as a chocolate teapot in a heatwave. Trump's executive order has birthed an 'AI cybersecurity clearinghouse' tasked with coordinating vulnerability scanning and patching. The CyberScoop report notes that the gap between 'found fast' and 'fixed slow' is the chasm this new body must close. Because what could possibly go wrong when you ask bureaucracy to keep pace with frontier models that update every week?

The clearinghouse isn't even built yet, and already the article hints at the obvious pitfall: it risks becoming a committee that stalls. Of course it does. We're talking about a government body formed under an executive order—the same mechanism that gave us travel bans and TikTok ultimatums. The report quotes officials expressing hope that this won't turn into another 'paperwork exercise,' which is the administrative equivalent of crossing your fingers before a plane takes off. Meanwhile, vulnerabilities in AI systems are being discovered at machine speed, while the patching process moves at the pace of inter-agency memos and FedRAMP approvals.

So here's the joke: the clearinghouse is supposed to coordinate, but coordination is exactly what government does worst. The report mentions that the order itself contains no binding deadlines for patching—just 'guidance.' So we'll have a room full of well-intentioned civil servants comparing scan results while a malicious actor exploits a disclosed flaw. The punchline, as always, is that we're building a bus to catch a bullet train. Cheers.