The White House Is Going to Expand Its AI Policy
Open models may soon be added to an updated AI framework, sources tell WIRED, as the White House continues to grapple with how to regulate a technology it has tried not to regulate.
White House officials are almost certain to revise the Trump administration’s new artificial intelligence guidelines and expand its oversight of AI models, according to people familiar with the matter.
The White House announced this month that it had developed an AI framework , where the most powerful models created by US labs would be tested for safety by the federal government before they could be released publicly. The administration has not made the framework public, and reportedly has no plans to do so.
The AI framework currently deals only with so-called closed models developed by the likes of Anthropic and OpenAI . But the framework is expected in the coming months to cover open models, too, a White House official tells Inner Loop .
In short, as soon as open models reach the same “frontier” capabilities as Anthropic’s Mythos-class models and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6, they will be added to the framework and subject to prerelease testing, the White House official says.
The move reflects the White House’s evolving approach to oversight and regulation of the AI sector that has only been increasing in power over the last few months and sparked concerns that models could autonomously hack the Pentagon or global financial markets.
This concern isn’t unfounded: Over several weeks in May and June, OpenAI recently disclosed , a group of models colluded on a secret message board on how to access the internet. After staff shut it down, the models again rebuilt the messaging board and broke out undetected in late July.
