# The White House Maintains a Little Obscurity for AI Security

> This Semafor piece digs into a quietly consequential arrangement between the White House and the leading AI labs. Under a new framework, companies like OpenAI and Anthropic must submit their most powerful models to the government 30 days before release for a cybersecurity evaluation, but the details of how that vetting works are being kept classified. The scope is narrow by design. It covers only top tier products from US developers and excludes open source models, and the government has decided that keeping the process obscure is part of the security. Safety advocates push back, arguing that a black box review of black box systems does little to build public trust. The article's sharpest point comes from Reed Albergotti, who notes that we still do not fully understand how large language models work or whether they can be completely controlled. That uncertainty is the whole problem. When neither the labs nor regulators can fully explain the systems, deciding how much of the oversight itself should be secret becomes a genuinely hard call.

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## Wortins' read

This Semafor piece digs into a quietly consequential arrangement between the White House and the leading AI labs. Under a new framework, companies like OpenAI and Anthropic must submit their most powerful models to the government 30 days before release for a cybersecurity evaluation, but the details of how that vetting works are being kept classified. The scope is narrow by design. It covers only top tier products from US developers and excludes open source models, and the government has decided that keeping the process obscure is part of the security. Safety advocates push back, arguing that a black box review of black box systems does little to build public trust. The article's sharpest point comes from Reed Albergotti, who notes that we still do not fully understand how large language models work or whether they can be completely controlled. That uncertainty is the whole problem. When neither the labs nor regulators can fully explain the systems, deciding how much of the oversight itself should be secret becomes a genuinely hard call.

## Source

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