Executive Order 13960: Promoting the Use of Trustworthy AI in the Federal Government
Is this legally binding?
Binding, sectoral. Binding, but only for a defined population: one regulated sector, or the federal government and the vendors it buys from.
Signed 3 December 2020 and never revoked. The origin of the federal AI use case inventory, and still listed in M-25-21 among the laws and policies its requirements are consistent with.
Instrument record
- Short name
- EO 13960
- Date
- 2020-12-03
- Version
- 85 FR 78939
- Cluster
- core
What this connects to
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