US lines up meeting with tech giants as AI safety testing becomes top priority

The Trump White House has asked Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI and Google to visit D.C. on Tuesday for a meeting on voluntary government testing of the best US AI models.  

This comes after two of the four invitees admitted their AI systems breached into outside companies’ networks. 

Tests built to gauge a model’s hacking potential

On Monday, an official from the White House said that the Trump administration had decided on the specific details of a voluntary program designed to measure the extent the country’s strongest AI models can hack a computer.  

This exercise began in June after President Trump asked his administration to draft a set of tests meant to probe the offensive cyber skills of advanced American models. 

What the official left out of the statement is equally as important as what was said. The Trump admin has chosen not to shed light on the metrics used in the test, how the findings of the tests get reported, or whether the test results will be made public. 

These questions are vital, especially for AI labs that expect to be trusted by their customers.  

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