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Trump’s Mythos Panic Attack

After a yearlong anything-goes policy toward A.I., the White House is suddenly talking about “vetting” new models and wrapping the industry in red tape. Is the pivot a reaction to midterm polling, J.D. Vance’s 2028 push, or Trump officials seeing something that scared them straight?

Donald Trump
Ever since getting a peek under the hood of Mythos, the secretive Anthropic model that is ostensibly too powerful to release to the public, the Trump team seems to have changed its tune. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images
Ian Krietzberg
May 12, 2026

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Is the White House about to make a massive pivot on A.I.? That was the question pinging around Washington last week after The New York Times reported that President Trump was weighing executive actions concerning government oversight for new models. In an appearance on Fox News, National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett suggested that future A.I. models might go through an F.D.A.-like preapproval process. “We’re studying possibly an executive order to give a clear roadmap to everybody about how this is going to go,” he said.