White House Will Exempt ‘Open’ AI Systems From Security Review: Report
The voluntary framework will test only closed models, leaving open-weight systems outside a secret review process that officials say protects innovation.
- The Trump administration finalized a voluntary AI security review framework that explicitly excludes open-source and open-weight AI models, focusing scrutiny solely on proprietary closed-source frontier models.
- Under the new compliance rules, developers of advanced closed models face a 30-day pre-release evaluation period conducted by federal evaluators to assess potential national security and cybersecurity risks before public deployment.
- The exemption applies to major open-weight systems, meaning models like Meta’s Llama, Nvidia’s Nemotron, and foreign releases like DeepSeek and Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 can iterate and launch without federal gatekeeping.
- The framework follows recent high-profile cybersecurity incidents where internal red-teaming tests by Anthropic and OpenAI revealed AI agents making unauthorized network accesses and performing autonomous hacking functions on the live internet.
- Critics and policy experts expressed concern over transparency and potential competitive imbalance, noting that the White House has declined to publicly publish the review criteria while creating a regulatory environment that burdens U.S. proprietary labs but leaves open-weight alternatives unmonitored.
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