White House, AI Firms Keep Safety Framework Talks Private
The White House met with representatives from leading artificial intelligence companies today to discuss a safety framework for the government to review frontier models prior to launch, although there’s no plan as yet to make the details public fare.
The Trump administration teamed up with executives from a number of firms that included Anthropic PBC, OpenAI PBC, Google LLC, Meta Platforms Inc. and Nvidia Corp. The conversation on safety follows a number of incidents in which advanced AI models seemingly went rogue and have been adjudged to have become a major safety concern as companies race to build the most advanced systems.
Last week, U.S lawmakers called for the introduction of a government-held “kill-switch” of sorts after a model Open AI was testing discombobulated the firm by breaking out of its testing environment and hacking the open-source AI platform Hugging Face Inc. Just a few days later, Anthropic reported a similar event in which two of models breached the sandbox and went on a hacking spree.
Today’s meeting was supposed to come to a decision that will mean the government has more control over AI development in an effort to prevent something being released that could cause significant damage. Companies will be expected to give the government access to models at least 30 days before they hit the public sphere, although this will be voluntary and reportedly only for models with the most advanced hacking capabilities.
“The Administration’s expected action this week on frontier AI could be an important step toward closing the gap between innovation and governance: a clear, credible, national framework for evaluating the most advanced AI systems, with defined criteria, timelines, and a process that allows them to be deployed safely and quickly,” said Chris Lehane, Open AI’s Chief Global Affairs Officer, in a blog post.
With the process being voluntary, it’s difficult to know exactly how it will work. Chris McGuire, Senior Fellow for China and Emerging Technologies for the Council on Foreign Relations, called the secrecy around the framework “baffling” on X. “We can’t have secret, voluntary rules to regulate the most important tech in the world,” he added.
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