President Biden on Monday will sign what the White House is calling a ‘landmark’ executive order that contains the ‘most sweeping actions ever taken to protect Americans from the potential risks of AI systems.’ 

Among them is requiring that artificial intelligence developers share their safety-test results – known as red-team testing – with the federal government. 

‘In accordance with the Defense Production Act, the Order will require that companies developing any foundation model that poses a serious risk to national security, national economic security, or national public health and safety must notify the federal government when training the model, and must share the results of all red-team safety tests,’ the White House says. ‘These measures will ensure AI systems are safe, secure, and trustworthy before companies make them public.’ 

‘The National Institute of Standards and Technology will set the rigorous standards for extensive red-team testing to ensure safety before public release,’ the White House continued. 

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‘The Department of Homeland Security will apply those standards to critical infrastructure sectors and establish the AI Safety and Security Board,’ it added. ‘The Departments of Energy and Homeland Security will also address AI systems’ threats to critical infrastructure, as well as chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and cybersecurity risks.’ 

In response to concerns about AI putting people out of work, the White House says the executive order will ‘Produce a report on AI’s potential labor-market impacts, and study and identify options for strengthening federal support for workers facing labor disruptions, including from AI.’ 

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The White House also says the executive order is aimed at protecting Americans from AI-enabled fraud by establishing standards and best practices to differentiate between AI-generated and authentic content. 

‘The Department of Commerce will develop guidance for content authentication and watermarking to clearly label AI-generated content,’ it says. ‘Federal agencies will use these tools to make it easy for Americans to know that the communications they receive from their government are authentic—and set an example for the private sector and governments around the world.’ 

The moves by the White House come after the Senate hosted its first-ever bipartisan AI forum last month. 

‘More action will be required, and the Administration will continue to work with Congress to pursue bipartisan legislation to help America lead the way in responsible innovation,’ the White House says. 

JERUSALEM — Allegations of recurring United Nations anti-Israel activity, including accusations that United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres seemed to rationalize Hamas’ murder of 1,400 people — illustrate the world body’s obsession with the Jewish state.

‘Of course, (Guterres) should resign,’ Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital. ‘Many aspects of the U.N., like the Human Rights Council and UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency), are either antisemitic or give cover for terrorism or both. The behavior of the secretary-general this week was shameful even by the standards of the U.N.’ 

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, on Tuesday urged Guterres to resign, ripping into the U.N. secretary-general for ostensibly rationalizing Hamas’ murder of 1,400, including Americans, Oct. 7 in Israel. 

Guterres said Hamas’ attacks ‘did not happen in a vacuum,’ and the ‘Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. This is false. It was the opposite,’ Erdan said, describing Guterres’ words as ‘pure blood libel.’

Guterres responded to the criticism against him by noting in a statement outside the U.N. Security Council, ‘I am shocked by the misrepresentations by some of my statements yesterday in the Security Council. As if … as if I was justifying acts of terror by Hamas. This is false. It was the opposite.’

The U.N. has long faced accusations by critics of antisemitism and anti-Israel hatred. 

In 1975, a majority of U.N. member states passed a resolution equating the founding philosophy of the state of Israel — Zionism — with racism. Critics say significant damage has been done by the resolution since, even though member states overturned the antisemitic resolution in 1991. But severe injury had been inflicted on the reputation of the Middle East’s only democratic state, Israel. 

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New York’s former Democratic Mayor Ed Koch in 1982 called the world body a ‘cesspool’ for passing an anti-Israel resolution against the Jewish state for annexing the Golan Heights.   

The late Israeli Ambassador to the U.N., Abba Eban, famously quipped, ‘If Algeria introduced a (U.N.) resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.’ 

Guterres’ move to blame the Jewish state for an alleged ‘occupation’ of the Gaza Strip omitted information regarding Israel’s withdrawal from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in 2005.  

Erdan condemned Guterres, calling on him to resign. 

‘His statement that ‘the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum’ expressed an understanding for terrorism and murder,’ Erdan said. ‘It’s really (unfathomable).’ 

A spokesman for the secretary-general sent Fox News Digital a statement defending his speech and rejecting criticism. 

‘Nothing can justify the deliberate killing, injuring and kidnapping of civilians — or the launching of rockets against civilian targets,’ Guterres said in his statement.

‘Indeed, I spoke of the grievances of the Palestinian people, and in doing so, I also clearly stated, and I quote, ‘But the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the appalling attacks by Hamas.’

‘And then I went on with my intervention referring to all my positions on all aspects of the Middle East crisis. I believe it was necessary to set the record straight, especially out of respect to the victims and to their families.’

When asked if Guterres believes the U.N. should sanction Hamas as a terrorist organization, Guterres’ spokesman declined to comment. 

‘The United Nations system — its secretariat from the secretary-general to its high commissioner for human rights, its bodies and agencies from the General Assembly and Human Rights Council to the Security Council — has systematically treated Israel differently than any other state for over half a century,’ Anne Bayefsky, president of Human Rights Voices and director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust,  told Fox News Digital. 

‘Discriminated against Israel. Demonized Israel. That demonization is not an abstraction. It’s lethal, as should now be excruciatingly obvious,’ she said.

Bayefsky continued, ‘The U.N. has no definition of terrorism because Islamic states claim targeting the Jewish state and its people is not terrorism. Last week, Navi Pillay, head of a U.N. Commission of Inquiry, presented a U.N. report condemning Israel that put the word terrorism in quotation marks.’

‘She justified ‘armed struggle’ against Israel and backed the secretary-general’s contextualization — rationalization — of Hamas atrocities. She said, ‘The secretary-general made a correct statement … the attack (of Oct. 7) isn’t an isolated incident. It flows from all these violations on both sides.’ This is the face of modern antisemitism — a straight line from discrimination to death.’

‘This is a familiar circle of terrorists opposed to a Jewish state and steeped in antisemitism, expecting and finding the U.N. has their back. The secretary-general is a man who has smashed any pretense of a U.N. moral compass. He is a disgrace and lost any entitlement to head an organization theoretically dedicated to human rights,’ Bayefsky stated.’

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the LA-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, told Fox News Digital he met last week with a U.N. diplomat in the secretary-general’s office ‘on all these roiling issues. When I saw the secretary-general’s statement, I was shocked and disappointed. My sense is that many seasoned professionals, journalists and, yes, diplomats just don’t get it.’

He continued, ‘They want to treat this as just another round of violence between Hamas and Israel. It isn’t, and the Jewish people will reject any efforts to do just that. Instead of berating Israel, the secretary-general should be telling the viciously one-sided UNHRC COI to wrap up their inquisition.’ 

The U.N. Human Rights Council commissioned a ‘commission of inquiry’ to investigate mainly Israel’s alleged human rights violations. The COI and its members have been accused of antisemitism by critics.  

Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley in 2018 pulled the plug on U.S. participation in the U.N. Human Rights Council because of its alleged bias against Israel. She said at the time the council ‘has been a protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of political bias.’ 

President Biden rejoined the body in 2021.

Haley also denounced the U.N.’s Paris-based UNESCO, which supports various educational and cultural projects around the world and has faced criticism for naming ancient Jewish sites as Palestinian heritage sites and granting full membership to the Palestrian Authority in 2011. 

‘UNESCO is among the most corrupt and politically biased U.N. agencies,’ Haley said after the U.S. announced it would quit the agency in 2017. 

The Biden administration rejoined UNESCO in 2023.

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‘The Jewish people will not be lectured to. They will not allow Hamas to commit more crimes against humanity. The speechwriters and special rapporteurs live in their bubbles. We live in the real world. It’s not 1943, but 2023,’ Cooper said.

The Wiesenthal Center is named after the legendary Nazi hunter, Simon Wiesenthal, who survived the death camps of the Hitler movement. 

Cooper took the U.N. specialized agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, to task for ‘serving as staging areas for weapons and missile launches.’ 

The United Nations Security Council has also faced intense criticism for its efforts to sanction Israel. Germany’s former ambassador, Christoph Heusgen, equated Israel with the terrorist movement Hamas during one session, prompting the Wiesenthal Center to list Heusgen’s remarks as one of the worst outbreaks of antisemitism and anti-Israeli conduct in 2019.  

President Trump’s Middle East envoy, Jason Greenblatt, blasted the UNSC in 2019 for impeding peace between Israel and the Palestinians. He called the conduct of the Security Council ‘the constant drumbeat of tired rhetoric that is designed to prevent progress and bypass direct negotiations. It is time to retire that rhetoric.’ 

On Friday, the United Nations General Assembly failed to condemn Hamas in a non-binding resolution. The Jordanian-sponsored resolution calling for a ‘humanitarian truce,’ sailed through with some 120 nations voting for it. Erdan told delegates the vote ‘will go down in infamy.’

‘We have all witnessed that the U.N. no longer holds even one ounce of legitimacy or relevance,’ Erdan said. ‘This organization was founded in the wake of the Holocaust for the purpose of preventing atrocities, yet the spectacle we just saw proves beyond a doubt that the U.N. is committed, not to preventing, but ensuring, further atrocities.’

On Monday the United Nations Security Council scheduled an emergency session to discuss the initial ground invasion by the Israelis into Gaza. 

The Associated Press and Fox News staff contributed to this report. 

Israel should take responsibility for protecting innocent civilians in Gaza even though Hamas is using them as human shields, Biden administration national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday, as Israeli forces continue to bombard the Gaza Strip following the deadly terrorist attack more than three weeks ago.

Sullivan appeared on CNN’s ‘State of the Union,’ saying the Israeli government should take every possible action to distinguish terrorists from civilians during its ongoing operations.

‘Hamas is making life extremely difficult for Israel by taking civilians as human shields and putting their rocket infrastructure and terrorist infrastructure among civilians,’ Sullivan said. ‘That creates an added burden for Israel, but it does not lessen Israel’s responsibility under international humanitarian law to distinguish between terrorist and civilians and protect lives of innocent people.’

Sullivan added: ‘And that is the overwhelming majority of the people in Gaza.’

While Sullivan said President Biden will speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later Sunday about protecting Palestinian civilians in Gaza, he added that the U.S. has already been holding conversations behind closed doors about protecting civilians.

‘We have had conversations privately, as well as our public pronouncements, private conversations with Israel about the need to protect innocent civilians and be targeted in their military operations so that it’s focused on the terrorists and not on innocent people whose lives deserve to be protected,’ he said.

Netanyahu on Saturday announced that his forces have entered the ‘second stage’ of its war with the terrorist group Hamas, greatly expanding its ground operations in Gaza.

Since Hamas terrorists first infiltrated Israel on Oct. 7, as many as 8,700 people have been killed in the war on both sides, including at least 1,400 Israeli civilians and soldiers and 33 Americans. The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry claims more than 7,300 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and 110 in the West Bank, although the Biden administration has looked at numbers coming from Hamas with a degree of skepticism. 

At least 10 Americans are feared to be among the 229 people held captive by Hamas.

As the world’s attention remains divided on the Israel-Hamas war and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a delegation from the Ronald Reagan Foundation visited Taiwan last week seeking to shore up U.S. support for the island that continues to be threatened by Beijing.

‘Taiwanese skepticism about America’s staying power and its ability to deter aggression is on the rise,’ Heino Klinck, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia, told Fox News Digital. 

‘The Biden administration’s precipitous Afghanistan withdrawal, piecemeal material support to Ukraine, inability to provide defense articles in a timely manner, as well as other foreign policy woes are the fodder for Chinese disinformation and propaganda that fuel this skepticism.’ 

The foundation’s trip recalls two visits President Reagan made while still serving as governor of California, first in 1971 and again in 1978. The delegation included members from the foundation and members of various groups, including former politicians, military experts and members from companies like Google and Citigroup.

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen met with the delegation, thanking the group for its ‘hospitality and considerable support’ when she visited the Reagan Library earlier this year and highlighted the work done to ‘enhance Taiwan-U.S. relations.’ 

‘Taiwan and the U.S. share the values of freedom and democracy,’ Tsai said. ‘Together, we strive for peace and prosperity in the region. … Our other distinguished guests have continued President Reagan’s legacy and ideals in advocating for individual freedom, economic opportunity and global democracy.’

Reagan established himself as a ‘devoted defender’ of Taiwan, often calling for the establishment of ‘official’ or ‘government-to-government’ relations, according to an article from The Washington Post written during his first presidential campaign. 

‘I would not pretend, as [President] Carter does, that the relationship we now have with Taiwan, enacted by our Congress, is not official,’ Reagan said regarding the difference between him and the man he would eventually defeat. Reagan would later temper his language to align more with official U.S. policy, but his actions toward Taiwan remained those of a close friend and ally. 

When Reagan visited China in 1984, he sought to reassure Taiwan he would not agree to any deals that would hinder relations between Taipei and Washington, with assurances delivered verbally and in briefings to representatives from Taiwan, The New York Times reported at the time. 

The Foundation quoted Reagan, saying, ‘There are cultural differences making nations each unique in its own way, but at the same time I think all are bound together with a common heritage of a love of freedom,’ and ‘our destiny is democracy and the defense of that destiny is one that all of us share.’ 

Reagan Foundation President David Trulio told Fox News Digital the group undertook the trip because it is ‘strongly behind the long-standing bipartisan consensus supporting Taiwan.’ 

‘The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute was honored to lead this delegation to Taiwan, a vibrant democracy and an absolutely key economic partner in Asia, a region vital to America’s future,’ he said.

Klinck in his comments to Fox News Digital continued to focus on the growing Taiwanese public skepticism, arguing that the people worry that U.S.-Taiwan relations have regressed to ‘a sub-component of the U.S.-China relationship.’ 

‘The merits of Washington-Taipei relations in all domains must be emphasized outside of Washington-Beijing dynamics,’ Klinck said. ‘Leveraging opportunities such as completing a U.S.-Taiwan free trade agreement and U.S. leadership to internationalize peace, security and stability in the Taiwan Strait would be strong messages underscoring American commitment.’

Concern over U.S. commitment to Taiwan has accelerated following the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, which has consumed global media and political minds and seemingly sucked the oxygen from other conflicts. Even Ukraine coverage has found diminished airtime in the face of the rapidly escalating situation in the Middle East. 

Former Sen. James Talent, R-Mo., told Fox News Digital Ukraine ‘is very much on the minds of Taiwanese leaders’ who ‘appreciate America’s policy of support’ for Ukraine because Taiwanese leaders ‘think it is important for the democracies of the world to make clear that unprovoked aggression is something they will resist.’

‘We need to strengthen deterrence, which means both Taiwan and the United States building up the kind of military capabilities that gives Beijing pause about blockading or invading Taiwan,’ Talent said. ‘That’s the big and most urgent challenge.’

He highlighted other challenges, such as the way China uses economic power to advance national objectives. But he praised Taiwan’s efforts to develop ‘self-sufficient’ defensive power and ‘a greater role in Asian affairs.’ 

Trulio stressed that America must keep in mind that ‘the world is watching’ how it handles these various crises, and the way Ukraine and Israel play out will have ‘impacts’ on ‘both sides of the Taiwan Strait.’

‘The Chinese Communist Party is attempting to use misinformation to make the Taiwanese people skeptical about America’s will to support its friends and allies,’ Trulio argued. ‘It was clear from our discussions in Taiwan that strong support for Ukraine counters that skepticism and would make China less inclined to initiate a crisis.’

LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Former Vice President Mike Pence is out of the running. 

‘I came here to say it’s become clear to me this is not my time,’ the former vice president said in his surprise announcement at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership meeting, which this year attracted all the major GOP White House contenders. 

‘So after much prayer and deliberation, I have decided to suspend my campaign for president effective today,’ Pence said.

The big question going forward is which contenders will follow Pence’s lead in suspending their campaigns for the 2024 Republican nomination in a race dominated by former President Donald Trump.

While four lesser-known candidates had already called it quits, Pence became the first of the major contenders to suspend his 2024 campaign. 

One thing’s for sure: More will follow

‘There’s no question others will follow suit. The question is one of timing,’ RJC chief executive officer Matt Brooks told Fox News.

Veteran Republican consultant and media strategist Ari Fleischer, a Fox News contributor, highlighted that ‘consolidation is inevitable. It happens in every cycle… this field will shrink.’

Longtime Republican strategist David Kochel, a veteran of numerous presidential and Iowa based campaigns, said that ‘this is the beginning of the winnowing of the field.’

The former vice president launched his 2024 campaign in early June. While he spent plenty of time over the summer and into the autumn on the campaign trail in the crucial early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, his White House bid never took off. 

Pence stood in the mid to low single digits in the latest surveys and his fundraising was meager. The former vice president struggled — but ultimately succeeded to reach the polling and donor thresholds to qualify for the first two Republican presidential nomination debates. But as of Saturday, he still remained short of hitting the criteria to make the stage at next month’s third debate.

Sources in Pence’s political orbit tell Fox News the final decision to drop out of the race came just in the past day or two, after recent fundraising didn’t alleviate concerns about reaching the donor threshold to qualify for the Nov. 8 debate in Miami.

Failure to make the stage at the next debate could lead others to drop out. 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie have spotlighted that they’ve reached the polling and donor thresholds required by the Republican National Committee to qualify for the debate. And on Saturday, as first reported by Fox News, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina also said he’d hit the criteria.

But North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson — who failed to make the stage at the second debate — have yet to qualify.

‘There will be more candidates who don’t get on the debate stage who fall off — whether formally or literally,’ longtime New Hampshire based national Republican consultant Dave Carney told Fox News. ‘I think you’ll see more consolidation.’

But Carney, who’s worked on presidential campaigns for more than three decades, said that ‘the money and the ego’ will keep some of the other candidates in the race.

Carney predicts four or five candidates will still in the race at the beginning of next year, ahead of the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, the first two contests in the 2024 GOP nominating calendar.

‘Iowa and New Hampshire will do the real weed whacking,’ he said.

Kochel concurred, saying most of ‘the attrition is going to take place between Iowa and New Hampshire.’

Pence has long been a champion to social conservative voters, and was trying to make inroads with Iowa’s evangelicals, who play an outsized role in Hawkeye State GOP politics.

‘When someone exits the race, that’s the natural question. Where do those supporters go?’ said Nicole Schlinger, a long time Iowa based conservative strategist who’s well-connected with evangelical groups.

‘If you are Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis or Tim Scott, your team is trying to figure out how to appeal to Iowa voters who were leaning in Mike Pence’s direction,’ she told Fox News.

Schlinger, pointing to Scott’s push for social conservatives, said ‘Tim Scott has the most natural appeal with voters who were leaning towards Pence.’ But said that DeSantis also has ‘a solid record on life.’

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