US Presidential Executive Orders on AI Quiz

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1. Which executive order launched the American AI Initiative in 2019?
   • EO 14110
   • EO 13859
   • EO 14179
   • EO 13960
2. What legal authority did EO 14110 rely on to require frontier model developers to report safety test results?
   • The Copyright Act
   • The Communications Decency Act
   • The Defense Production Act
   • The Federal Trade Commission Act
3. How was the reporting threshold for the most powerful models defined under EO 14110?
   • By training compute, roughly 10^26 operations
   • By the number of users of the model
   • By company annual revenue
   • By the number of model parameters exceeding one trillion
4. What happened to EO 14110 on January 20, 2025?
   • Congress codified it into law
   • It was expanded to cover state governments
   • A federal court struck it down
   • It was revoked by President Trump
5. What did EO 14179 direct the administration to produce?
   • A national AI licensing regime
   • An AI Action Plan
   • A ban on open-weight models
   • A federal AI tax
6. Why can most AI executive orders not directly impose obligations on private companies?
   • Because they only apply to foreign companies
   • Because they must first be approved by the Supreme Court
   • Because they direct the executive branch and reach private parties only through existing statutory authority
   • Because private companies are exempt from all federal rules
7. Which is a misconception about the revocation of EO 14110?
   • That it wiped out all federal AI governance
   • That the order could be revoked by a later President
   • That OMB guidance was later replaced
   • That NIST work on AI continued
8. Where does the guide suggest compliance teams should focus to find concrete obligations?
   • Presidential speeches
   • Campaign platforms
   • Social media posts from agencies
   • Implementing documents such as OMB memos and NIST frameworks