The White House’s plan to vet potentially dangerous AI is cloaked in secrecy
Photograph: Nathan Howard/ReutersView image in fullscreenSam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI. So far, the White House is keeping details of the framework private, in a blow to transparency and potential boon for secretive AI companies.On Tuesday, staff from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, Nvidia and Microsoft attended a private meeting with White House officials to review the AI framework. The order was a watered-down version of initial notions to make some parts of the vetting process mandatory.
- ▪Photograph: Nathan Howard/ReutersView image in fullscreenSam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI.
- ▪So far, the White House is keeping details of the framework private, in a blow to transparency and potential boon for secretive AI companies.On Tuesday, staff from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, Nvidia and Microsoft attended a private mee
- ▪The order was a watered-down version of initial notions to make some parts of the vetting process mandatory.
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Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI. Photograph: Nathan Howard/ReutersView image in fullscreenSam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI. Photograph: Nathan Howard/ReutersAI (artificial intelligence)AnalysisThe White House’s plan to vet potentially dangerous AI is cloaked in secrecyNick Robins-EarlyA Trump administration framework on AI testing leaves a lack of transparency – and plenty of open questionsFri 7 Aug 2026 09.00 EDTLast modified on Fri 7 Aug 2026 09.02 EDTShareAfter months of talking with tech industry leaders, the Trump administration finalized a framework this week for how it will test new artificial intelligence models for safety and cybersecurity risks.
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