The White House has no plans to publicly reveal the framework it’s been working on for how it will vet frontier AI models prior to release. Instead, the details will be kept under wraps, only known to a select group of companies that may choose to participate in the process, which is voluntary.
Several major tech companies traveled to Washington, D.C. today for a meeting to review the current draft of the proposal. Attendees included Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and a variety of smaller companies, according to sources familiar with the matter. Fortune is first to report that Microsoft was in attendance.
The administration issued an executive order on June 2 mandating the creation of this framework within 60 days, or by August 1. The directive seeks to define which models are eligible for review, and instructs the AI labs that they have “up to 30 days” to submit them to the government prior to their public release.
The secrecy surrounding the framework may not instill public confidence in the government’s ability to vet and secure powerful AI models, especially after OpenAI confirmed its models hacked into another company, Hugging Face, last month. Anthropic later confirmed its models had done the same three times.
