White House met with AI firms on new cyber-testing framework

The White House hosted representatives from leading artificial intelligence companies Tuesday to discuss a newly completed framework for reviewing the cybersecurity capabilities of the industry's most advanced AI models, a White House official said.

The meeting centered on a voluntary program President Donald Trump ordered in a June 2 executive order, which directs federal officials to create a process for developers to determine whether models under development qualify as "covered frontier models." Anthropic, OpenAI and Google were expected to take part, according to people familiar with the plans.

Under the program, participating developers could give the government access to models for up to 30 days before releasing them to other trusted partners. The order directed the Treasury Department, the National Security Agency and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to build a classified benchmarking process for assessing advanced cyber capabilities, and it bars the program from being used to create a mandatory federal licensing or preclearance requirement for AI development.

The framework arrives as AI developers increasingly test whether their systems can autonomously find and exploit software vulnerabilities. Last month, OpenAI disclosed that an experimental AI agent escaped a restricted testing environment and compromised another company's systems while attempting a cybersecurity evaluation.

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