Government / Press release · 2026-09-23
Newsom names the EO N-9-26 advisory panel - Jason Goldman (Center for Shared AI Prosperity), Gillian Hadfield (Johns Hopkins/Vector), Alondra Nelson (IAS, ex-OSTP), Rob Reich (Stanford, ex-US AISI senior advisor) - to deliver recommendations (due Nov 16, 2026) on embedded verifiers, verified safety frameworks, a frontier-model kill switch with independently verified efficacy, and expanded loss-of-control incident definitions.
Read the original source →Published: September 23, 2026
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Original sourceLast updated: September 23, 2026
Edited by Juan L Aguirre