Kristian Stout Cited in App Developer Magazine on AI Executive Order
App Developer Magazine cited Kristian Stout, ICLE Director of Innovation Policy, in a piece on the administration’s executive order addressing AI security and innovation. Stout argued that AI should be treated as a national security issue only where it genuinely touches that domain.
Read the full piece here.
Kristian Stout, who thinks hard about the intersection of innovation and policy, put the main point cleanly. Treat AI as a national security issue where it truly touches that domain, but do not pretend every model needs a permission slip from Washington. That is a telling break from ideas that would make frontier AI a licensed industry. It also rejects the easy mistake of treating AI as a single monolithic thing. Chips matter, sure, but smart policy looks at the pipeline of capability, access, and deployment. Where misuse actually happens is at the interface between powerful tools and real world systems. Security improves when useful capability is spread across firms, infrastructure, and end users rather than concentrated in a few government picked intermediaries. If you want reliability, put more trained eyes on the sky, not fewer.