White House AI Testing Rules Are Ready, but Still Largely Secret

White House AI Testing Rules Are Ready, but Still Largely Secret
The White House has completed its promised framework for evaluating the most advanced AI models, moving to brief leading developers while keeping the operating rules largely out of public view.

Anthropic, OpenAI and Google are expected at a Tuesday staff-level meeting to review the model-testing framework, according to reporting on the planned briefing. The administration says the initiative meets a deadline set by a June 2 executive order and is voluntary, but its limited disclosure has created a divide between the government’s security rationale and outside demands for clarity.

A White House official said, “The voluntary framework outlined in the June 2nd executive order was complete by the deadline,” adding that talks with industry over implementation are under way. The official also said the administration is engaging more companies than the three prominent labs expected at Tuesday’s session.

The framework is intended to establish how developers determine whether models still in development fall within its scope, and what protections apply when the government gets access to them as much as 30 days before release. Those protections are expected to cover confidentiality, cybersecurity, insider risk, intellectual property and nondisclosure, as well as the possible role of “trusted partners.”

But the most consequential thresholds remain opaque. The executive order makes the benchmarking of advanced cyber capabilities classified, and the capability level that triggers coverage is also classified. Policymakers, safety advocates and U.S. allies had expected more visibility into the voluntary framework itself; companies, meanwhile, want early signals about whether their next models will be covered.

The White House’s response is that secrecy does not necessarily mean the process is unfinished. “Just because things are unclassified that doesn’t mean we are going to broadcast them to everyone,” the official said. Tuesday’s briefing may offer companies more detail, but not necessarily the public transparency critics have sought.

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