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by culi 18 days ago
You seem to be trying to win a technical argument while ignoring the practical implications of the order. But even technically I think you are wrong. Just because it's not passed by Congress doesn't mean it's not "regulation". OMB Memorandum M-26-04[0] is absolutely regulation and was created exactly because of this order.

[0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/M-26-0...

Other agencies like the NIST (lookup NIST AI Risk Management Framework), the NAIAC (which was created in 2020) are the ones like in charge of:

> Agencies’ development of metrics, methods, and standards to test and measure AI, where such metrics, methods, and standards are for use by the general public or the Government as a whole, rather than to test AI for a particular agency application