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No one is saying, officially, what was decided\u00a0when top frontier AI labs\u2014Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta\u2014met with White House officials on Tuesday to discuss voluntary guidelines for testing new models.<\/p>\n

Read more The government was ready to expand its voting security work. Then it pulled the plug<\/a><\/p>\n

But Democratic lawmakers the Trump administration’s\u00a0approach to regulation as \u201cad-hoc and unpredictable,\u201d and said it\u2019s likely to boost global adoption of rival Chinese models at the worst possible time.<\/p>\n

Two officials with one of the labs said that Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI submitted a joint draft of the regulation around nine days ago and then began to work with each other and with the White House to find points of agreement. According to the officials, the labs all agreed they should be able to continue A\/B testing as part of the process for developing models, and the White House concurred.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Companies that agree to the framework will submit their models to U.S. inspectors to be evaluated for safety for 30 days before those companies can receive federal funding\u2014including from the Defense Department, whose 2027 budget request seeks more than\u00a0$54 billion for AI companies, according to the officials.<\/p>\n

A June White House executive order\u00a0adds that models from participating companies would get extra intellectual property protection from Chinese competitors or others who might seek to steal secrets.<\/p>\n

The White House is not commenting on how it will conduct the inspections. One of the officials said the the Office of Science and Technology Policy is still trying to set testing standards and how bodies like the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will conduct or design tests.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The murkiness around the policy\u2019s details has angered some top lawmakers. In\u00a0a\u00a0Tuesday letter, Senate Democrats ask\u00a0the White House to \u201cprovide an unclassified response, with a classified annex if necessary, clarifying the Administration\u2019s current policy and approach to limiting access to advanced AI models.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawmakers also evinced concern about the models’\u00a0new abilities to defy easy inspection, scrutiny, and limitation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring an internal evaluation [in July] OpenAI models escaped their testing environment and used high-level technical capabilities to compromise a third party\u2019s network without any instructions to take those actions,\u201d the letter reads. \u201cThe Federal Government cannot be passive as these capabilities emerge.\u201d<\/p>\n

AI\u2019s Jurassic Park moment<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last week, Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new open-weight model, Kimi 3, that performs as well as some top U.S. models and is being offered to consumers around the world at a far lower price.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers and others are increasingly worried the United States could fall behind\u00a0China in a race to develop faster, more efficient, more profitable models and to shape the way global populations use, buy, sell, and even build AI. Open weight models have become a key point of contention.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anthropic wants\u00a0more scrutiny of open-weight models and more\u00a0efforts to curb sales of high-performance chips to China to thwart distillation attacks. But others in the industry are taking a more supportive view of open weights.<\/p>\n

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A former senior White House official and a former senior defense official with direct knowledge of the discussion said Anthropic pushed for more language in the framework to address open-weight security, but came away disappointed.<\/p>\n

Anthropic did not comment for this story.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In recent months,\u00a0several of the newest AI models have broken\u00a0out of their virtual testing containers.<\/p>\n

Anthropic disclosed the first such incident in April, when an early version of their Mythos model was able to \u201cautonomously write some remarkably sophisticated exploits,\u201d including one that allowed it to escape an isolated testing environment that programmers use to test code for effectiveness and safety before it\u2019s released.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anthropic pulled the model from general release, but made it available under “Project Glasswing” so\u00a0the government and a handful of large companies\u00a0could find and fix vulnerabilities in their software.<\/p>\n

The White House responded with an export-control ban on June 12, barring access to the model not just to foreign countries but even foreigners\u00a0in the United States. That meant that Anthropic\u2019s own researchers, many of whom were born outside of the United States, could not work on the model. The White House reversed the ban on June 30.<\/p>\n

In July, tensions around a national AI safety strategy, or lack thereof, grew hotter. Both Anthropic and OpenAI revealed in which models breached their containment. It came as no surprise to many veteran cybersecurity experts. AI researcher and author Gary Marcus, in 2022, predicted such a possibility on his blog, describing it as an \u201cAI\u2019s Jurassic Park Moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week, AWS Chief Security Officer Stephen Schmidt\u00a0told reporters: \u201cContainers are not security boundaries. I actually have a T-shirt that says that, which I started wearing about three years ago.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

AWS hosts multiple models for users\u00a0through its Bedrock platform. Schmidt said the AI Mythos era requires a far more vigilant approach to cybersecurity, especially for researchers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the reasons that we built the virtualization infrastructure for AWS using our own Nitro Hypervisors so many years ago was we realized that containers were not an appropriate security boundary then. The same is true for AI. You cannot use an AI container as a security boundary.\u201d<\/p>\n

In March, a group of British researchers calculated the sandbox breakout period for various large language models, which proved very accurate months later.<\/p>\n

A follow-on paper published this week by the same group describes how to build better containment environments for the models emerging today.<\/p>\n

Read more IRS says a new policy \u2018moots\u2019 NTEU\u2019s First Amendment lawsuit. The union isn\u2019t so sure<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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