Editing News-Ball-Buchanan-Bipartisan-AI-Security-May-2026

'''May 4, 2026''' — Two former White House AI advisers from opposing administrations co-authored a New York Times op-ed calling for bipartisan action on AI security risks. Dean Ball, a former Trump White House AI policy adviser, and Ben Buchanan, who served as President Biden's White House adviser for AI, urged Congress and the executive branch to work together on catastrophic AI risk mitigation.<ref name="ussa-ball-buchanan">[https://ussanews.com/2026/05/04/the-federal-ai-moat-anthropic-is-selling-regulatory-capture/ USSA News — The Federal AI Moat: Former Trump and Biden aides call for bipartisan AI security action] New York Times — This Is What Should Unite the Right and the Left on A.I.]</ref>

The op-ed, titled "This Is What Should Unite the Right and the Left on A.I.," recommends tighter export controls on advanced AI chips and mandatory safety audits for frontier AI models. Ball and Buchanan wrote that while they "disagree on plenty," AI has national security implications that "deserve a careful and bipartisan government response."<ref name="nyt-opinion" />

The bipartisan appeal comes as the Trump administration is reportedly considering an executive order to create an AI working group for model vetting, and follows the administration's previously noninterventionist AI Action Plan. Buchanan is currently an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.<ref name="nyt-opinion" />

The op-ed specifically calls for the left and right to avoid partisan fights over catastrophic AI risk, arguing that national security concerns transcend partisan divisions in an era of rapid AI capability advancement.

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