There you have it! The White House just finalized its AI cybersecurity framework — and decided yo…
August 5, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 comments
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There you have it! The White House just finalized its AI cybersecurity framework — and decided you're not allowed to read it.
Full breakdown on Unbiased Headlines: https://lnkd.in/e9e4KGEb
Here's the deal. AI companies can voluntarily hand over new models up to 30 days before launch. The government tests them against a classified benchmark and shares the results with federal agencies and "trusted corporate partners."
Which companies got briefed at the White House this week? OpenAI. Anthropic. Google. Meta. Nvidia.
Which companies got left out? Open source. Every startup. Anyone not already sitting at the table.
Let me be clear about what I actually support. Testing frontier models for cyber risk is smart. A model that writes working exploit code is not the same as a chatbot doing homework. And keeping some benchmarks classified can make sense — you don't publish the exam if publishing it hands attackers the answer key.
I understand why you classify a test.
But here is where this goes wrong.
Nobody outside a handful of giant companies and a few officials can verify the rulebook works — or that it's fair. No public list of covered models. No published criteria. No way for a startup to even apply.
That's not a security framework. That's a moat with a government stamp on it.
Five companies get vetted. Everyone else gets locked out. Federal agencies and corporate buyers drift to the "approved" names by default — not because the smaller player is less safe, but because he was never invited into the room.
You don't beat China by handing five incumbents a permanent head start and calling it national security. You beat China by building faster than they do. You can't build faster with a closed shop.
President Trump should demand one clear, fast, technically credible test.
Public criteria. Open to every lab. Decided on merit — not on who got the invite.
Secret rules written for the biggest players in the market aren't a strategy. They're a market being carved up behind a closed door.
Who wrote the rulebook you're not allowed to read?
Full breakdown on Unbiased Headlines: https://lnkd.in/e9e4KGEb
Here's the deal. AI companies can voluntarily hand over new models up to 30 days before launch. The government tests them against a classified benchmark and shares the results with federal agencies and "trusted corporate partners."
Which companies got briefed at the White House this week? OpenAI. Anthropic. Google. Meta. Nvidia.
Which companies got left out? Open source. Every startup. Anyone not already sitting at the table.
Let me be clear about what I actually support. Testing frontier models for cyber risk is smart. A model that writes working exploit code is not the same as a chatbot doing homework. And keeping some benchmarks classified can make sense — you don't publish the exam if publishing it hands attackers the answer key.
I understand why you classify a test.
But here is where this goes wrong.
Nobody outside a handful of giant companies and a few officials can verify the rulebook works — or that it's fair. No public list of covered models. No published criteria. No way for a startup to even apply.
That's not a security framework. That's a moat with a government stamp on it.
Five companies get vetted. Everyone else gets locked out. Federal agencies and corporate buyers drift to the "approved" names by default — not because the smaller player is less safe, but because he was never invited into the room.
You don't beat China by handing five incumbents a permanent head start and calling it national security. You beat China by building faster than they do. You can't build faster with a closed shop.
President Trump should demand one clear, fast, technically credible test.
Public criteria. Open to every lab. Decided on merit — not on who got the invite.
Secret rules written for the biggest players in the market aren't a strategy. They're a market being carved up behind a closed door.
Who wrote the rulebook you're not allowed to read?