Trump’s AI testing plan is limited and vague
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The Trump administration’s framework for assessing potential cybersecurity risks posed by advanced AI reportedly has no interest in testing open models. Axios reports that not only do the voluntary guidelines outright exclude open models — meaning anyone can download them and inspect their core components — but the framework explicitly says it can’t be used to restrict open models after they’ve been released.
The AI testing framework was created after President Trump signed an executive order in June, requesting that AI companies share their frontier models with the federal government prior to release to address cybersecurity concerns. AI companies, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, reportedly attended a briefingabout the finalized model testing framework at the White House yesterday, but the Trump administration isn’t...
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