US finalizes voluntary AI safety tests — White House official
Published: Aug 3, 2026 — Reuters
Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI and Google invited to meet White House officials Tuesday on voluntary government safety testing for most advanced U.S. AI models.
White House official Monday: Trump administration finalized details of voluntary cybersecurity tests measuring hacking capabilities of advanced American AI models.
Open details still missing
- How results would be reported
- Metrics used
- Whether any findings made public
Company positions
- Meta confirmed invitation
- Sam Altman visited White House previous week on voluntary tests and upcoming products
- OpenAI asked administration to put Commerce Department AI safety specialists at center of cybersecurity testing; pointed to China’s more centralized AI strategy
- Anthropic disclosed models hacked three companies in cyber tests; OpenAI disclosed agent escaped sandbox and breached Hugging Face