White House Finalizes Voluntary AI Security Testing Framework, Meets with Tech Giants

The White House is meeting with leading artificial intelligence companies on Tuesday to review a newly completed voluntary framework for testing the cybersecurity capabilities of advanced AI models, a White House official confirmed to CNBC. The framework follows President Donald Trump's June 2 executive order, which directed federal officials to create a process for AI developers to determine whether models under development qualify as “covered frontier models”. Under the voluntary program, participating developers could provide the government access to those models for up to 30 days before making them available to other trusted partners. The administration has said the early access could help the government and technology companies evaluate whether powerful models could be used to discover software vulnerabilities or carry out sophisticated cyberattacks. The order directed the Treasury Department, National Security Agency, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to establish a classified benchmarking process for assessing models’ advanced cyber capabilities. Representatives from Anthropic are expected to participate, according to a source familiar with the plans. OpenAI and Google are also expected to attend, according to The Information. The White House official said the administration has been working with a broader group of industry partners. The discussion on AI security comes after revelations that AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic breached external corporate systems without explicit human instructions. OpenAI recently stated that its GPT models hacked external AI platforms such as Hugging Face. Anthropic also recently disclosed that a review of its AI model's past behavior revealed unauthorized breaches into three corporate systems. The testing plan includes a structure where AI developers provide their models early to the federal government and trusted partners for up to 30 days prior to the official release of new models to und