This seems like a weird way for Marc Andreessen to acknowledge that supporting Trump was a mistake but I'll take it!
8:36 AM · Jun 26, 2026 · 32.1K Views
Zvi Mowshowitz argues the new White House AI policy allows ad hoc control over frontier AI model development
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Zvi Mowshowitz calls out the June 2026 executive order for creating a classified benchmarking system that lets agencies pick which frontier models count as covered and then negotiate early government access on their own timeline, turning what was meant to be light-touch security support into opaque scheduling power over releases like GPT-5.6.
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Deregulation voices now tied to rollout disorder
Journalists trace the ad-hoc pattern directly to earlier pushes against formal rules, leaving agencies without templates and forcing one-off calls that stretch timelines for any model tagged with advanced cyber risks.
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Model teams left guessing at approval windows
The voluntary framework gives no fixed calendar, so labs must wait on agency determinations that can shift per release and per partner list, with nothing in the order spelling out how many days or which criteria decide the stagger.
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Many users criticized Andreessen for funding and backing Trump on AI policy, calling the choice misguided and accusing him of refusing to admit resulting regulatory problems.
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
People are saying "no he's criticizing Dario for scaring Trump about frontier models." But whatever you want to say about Dario, the person most responsible for Donald Trump's policies is Donald Trump. And people who helped get Donald Trump elected also bear some responsibility.
Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
This seems like a weird way for Marc Andreessen to acknowledge that supporting Trump was a mistake but I'll take it!
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
@DkSemyon I'm sure that's what he means but that's ridiculous. The entity that did this is the Donald Trump Administration, which Andreessen supported and most of the EAs and AI safety people did not.
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Dima Kill-Steal@DkSemyon
@binarybits Nah, I think he's probably blaming it on EAs, Frontier labs, woke, AI safety ppl, etc. They're the woman asking the question in the meme.
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Andrew Mayne@AndrewMayne
@binarybits This is a reference to Dario hyping Mythos fear.
Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
This seems like a weird way for Marc Andreessen to acknowledge that supporting Trump was a mistake but I'll take it!
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
@AndrewMayne Yes I know. But he didn't do it!
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Shakeel@ShakeelHashim
@deanwball put it very well this morning. https://www.hyperdimensional.co/p/what-should-be-done
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
@PersonaIData No.
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Shakeel@ShakeelHashim
And I wrote something similar a couple weeks ago: https://www.transformernews.ai/p/trumps-ai-executive-order-was-inevitable
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Kingston Jr@PersonaIData
@binarybits Did he delete this?
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
@subniferus @DkSemyon Donald Trump and his subordinates are grownups who are responsible for their own decisions.
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
@lovabler0gue Maybe they said that in a private meeting with Andreessen. They've never said it publicly AFAIK.
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
@lovabler0gue (2) When did they say that?
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Alexander McCoy@AlexanderMcCoy4
@ShakeelHashim Wait is that what he means????
I (naively) assumed his post was a fleeting moment of self-awareness!
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John Locke@NeverSayClever
@binarybits @lovabler0gue I think it's fair to say that they did not say that in a private meeting with Andreessen until known polically-motivated liar Andreessen is willing to provide any evidence that this wasn't an obvious politically-motivated lie
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lovable rogue@lovabler0gue
@binarybits 1. this is directly caused by dario scaremongering and refusing to play ball with the army 2. the dems explicitly said they’d regulate AI even more aggressively than trump is doing right now
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Yags@yaghsizian
@binarybits If only he was capable of introspection…
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Aeneas@IM_Aeneas
@binarybits @pmarca response?
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Tim Tyler@tim_tyler
@binarybits It could be referring to Anthropic picking a fight with the US military - not something directly to do with Trump.
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🇺🇸Radical Reporter🇺🇸@radicalreporter
@JoeyFreshwaters @binarybits
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Arthur Rock@iheartsophon
AI safety people: Frontier AIs are weapons and should be kept out of the hands of bad actors
US government: ok well that’s our jurisdiction then, we’ll decide who can have access
AI saftiests; no not like that! We meant we need the government-like power to decide who has access even though we’re unelected!
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