Claim · 2024-10-24 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Subsection 3.3(e)(ii) of the national security memorandum of 24 October 2024 directs the AI Safety Institute, within 180 days, to issue guidance for AI developers on testing, evaluating and managing risks from dual-use foundation models, with the first listed topic being how to measure capabilities relevant to the risk that AI models could enable the development of biological and chemical weapons or the automation of offensive cyber operations.

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Memorandum on Advancing the United States' Leadership in Artificial Intelligence; Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Fulfill National Security Objectives; and Fostering the Safety, Security, and Trustworthiness of Artificial Intelligence → states provision → Guidance topic: how to measure capabilities relevant to the risk that AI models could enable development of biological and chemical weapons (Sec. 3.3(e)(ii)(A))

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Memorandum on Advancing the United States' Leadership in Artificial Intelligence; Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Fulfill National Security Objectives; and Fostering the Safety, Security, and Trustworthiness of Artificial Intelligencestates provision ↓Guidance topic: how to measure capabilities relevant to the risk that AI models could enable development of biological and chemical weapons (Sec. 3.3(e)(ii)(A))

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Provision: Required action · provision ID us-nsm-ai-2024-sec33eii-guidance-bio-chem-measurement
Subject version: As posted on the White House briefing-room page of 24 October 2024 (archived copy) · Published 2024-10-24 · Effective date not established
Date: 2024-10-24 · publication

Scope and limitsA directive naming a guidance topic. It states no method and no measurement result. The guidance published as NIST AI 800-1 drafts is recorded separately in the dataset; this record does not assert that those drafts discharge this directive. A presidential memorandum of 5 June 2026 states that it rescinds and replaces this memorandum and its associated guidance (recorded separately). The provision stays on record as the 2024 text stated it, and no implementation, continuing force or wider legal consequence is inferred.

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Memorandum on Advancing the United States' Leadership in Artificial Intelligence; Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Fulfill National Security Objectives; and Fostering the Safety, Security, and Trustworthiness of Artificial Intelligence

The White House (Biden administration), as preserved on bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov · Publication date unknown

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Source excerpt

“How to measure capabilities that are relevant to the risk that AI models could enable the development of biological and chemical weapons or the automation of offensive cyber operations”

Location in source Subsection 3.3(e)(ii)(A)

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-30

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Authors: The White House (Biden administration), as preserved on bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 7ade7bda82cd13e21aa9f22bd7204e183872fa98f6b9d01fd718bbd694f40f73). Archived White House briefing-room page carrying the memorandum's text, marked 'October 24, 2024' and labelled historical material frozen in time; retrieved 2026-10-28. The classified annex referred to in Section 1(a) is not part of this text. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 7ade7bda82cd13e21aa9f22bd7204e183872fa98f6b9d01fd718bbd694f40f73, the same bytes). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated.
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Accessed: 2026-10-28
Language: English (en)
Attribution: The White House (Biden administration), as preserved on bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov, “Memorandum on Advancing the United States' Leadership in Artificial Intelligence; Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Fulfill National Security Objectives; and Fostering the Safety, Security, and Trustworthiness of Artificial Intelligence”.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, AI and biosecurity (research/ai-bio). The quotation (29 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval whose SHA-256 equals the pack’s. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. The guidance is to build on guidelines issued pursuant to subsection 4.1(a) of Executive Order 14110. No human editorial review.

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Relation. An exact framework edition, or another document with an exact expression, states one provision: a capability threshold or risk level and its trigger, a required safeguard or action, a decision authority (who decides, recommends, can overrule or is informed), a stated exception, or another statement of its content, such as a licence term or a prospectus statement. The passage records what the document says, not implementation, compliance or effectiveness. Provisions with the same key align across editions of one family.

Date. Dated by the memorandum's posting; the directive runs 180 days from that date.

Record ID ab-gov-us-nsm-aisi-guidance-bio-chem