SCOOP: Trump Admin Considering Expanding AI Framework to Open Models 

Trump administration officials told AI industry leaders on Tuesday that they are considering expanding an artificial intelligence vetting framework to open-weight models, as such models are currently exempted. 

Administration officials held a meeting Tuesday with executives from companies including Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI, to preview a framework for voluntary government reviews of advanced frontier AI models. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on June 3 requiring a framework for prerelease testing to address growing security risks associated with new AI models.

For instance, last week, OpenAI announced that two of its most advanced models had escaped a closed testing environment and breached the AI developer platform Hugging Face. A new analysis from Hugging Face on Tuesday said the two OpenAI models carried out 17,600 hacking actions on the internet between July 9 and July 13.

Media reports have said open models would be exempted from the administration’s voluntary vetting framework, but sources familiar with Tuesday’s meeting told the Daily Signal that while open models aren’t currently included in the vetting, they could be in the future. An open-weight AI model has trained parameters, or weights, that are released to the public, allowing others to download and customize the models. Nvidia is a top U.S. developer of open weight models, and the company’s CEO, Jensen Huang, met with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and President Trump last week. 

Two sources familiar with Tuesday’s meeting told the Daily Signal that some AI industry members felt they were given little guidance on how the framework will operate, but others say that this is an evolving framework that will change as technology develops. 

The framework will not be shared with the public, sources said, a detail first reported by Axios. AI experts on both sides of the aisle have criticized the administration for keeping the information private. Others have cited national security concerns and the evolving nature of the document as reasons for secrecy.

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 “A secret process by which the government gets early access to cutting edge AI — what could go wrong?” said Neil Chilson, head of AI policy at the Abundance Institute, in a post on X. 

“There may be good reasons to classify the benchmark used to test those models,” he added. “There is no good reason to hide how the program works.” 

“The White House has created a framework that shapes access to the most advanced AI models,” Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Mass., said. “It’s disappointing that they have chosen to block its public release.”

Sam Hammond, AI policy director at Foundation for American Innovation, filed a FOIA request to get a copy of the framework. 

“ONCD and implementing agencies (Treasury, DHS, NIST, OSTP) do not have executive privilege,” he said. “Final agency decisions like this are textbook public records.”

Theresa Payton, former White House chief information officer under President George W. Bush, told the Daily Signal that no one has a great understanding of what will subject their model to extensive testing. Payton said how the administration will integrate frontier models into the framework is “to be discussed and to be determined.”

“National security is a primary concern, but trust and transparency go together,” she said, “and I believe we can actually do both. We shouldn’t have to choose between national security and transparency.”