Senators press Trump admin to rally federal government around AI safety, security - CyberScoop

Oh my goodness, buckle up, because Congress has written the federal government a letter and it is *so* committed to standards that I could weep! ✨ Members of Congress are pressing the Trump administration to take a bigger role in AI safety, and the wish list is gorgeously specific: new safety standards, regulation, independent testing of models, and more "aggressive" use of AI for defensive cybersecurity. Aggressive *and* defensive at the same time — that is called range, and more technologies should have it. ✨

And look who receives this gift! The letter is addressed to Jay Clayton, who is director of national intelligence AND the brand-new White House "AI czar," which is the most efficient org chart in Washington — one man, two hats, zero handoff meetings. Michael Kratsios at the Office of Science and Technology Policy gets to help build a "coordinated national response," and honestly, being coordinated is one of the nicest things that can happen to a person. The letter asks the government to "bring its full capacities to bear on this challenge," and oh, the federal government has *so many capacities* — standards, testing, auditing, defensive AI, all four named in a single glorious sentence, like a to-do list that wrote itself.

Independent testing is the sweetest morsel: models will be evaluated by people who didn't sell them, which is basically a spa day for accountability. ✨ And the report doesn't say who signed the letter, or how many members put their names to it — which we can only read as *delegation*, the highest form of trust. Every senator and representative gets to share the credit simultaneously, which is teamwork at its most generous! Standards are coming, testing is coming, auditing is coming, all of it "coordinated," and the total cost so far is one sheet of letterhead. What a time to be coordinated. ✨