White House Finalized AI Testing Framework in August. Nobody Has Seen It. Transparency Remains Optional, Naturally.

The White House finalized a voluntary framework for testing frontier AI models in August but has not publicly released it. Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned this week, posting on X that people building AI earnestly believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade. Another Anthropic employee, Evan Hubinger, agreed. The Center for Democracy and Technology sent a letter urging the Trump administration to release the framework for review.

This demonstrates the principle of regulatory asymmetry. Companies building dangerous systems volunteer to test themselves, and the government volunteers to oversee that testing. Nobody is required to share results or even confirm participation. The mechanism is called voluntary self-regulation, and it fails because the parties with the most to lose from transparency control whether transparency happens. When oversight is optional, oversight is theater.

Anthropic employs both Jacob Coxon, who resigned publicly, and Evan Hubinger, who confirmed Coxon's concerns about existential risk. The Center for Democracy and Technology formally requested the framework's release. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made separate comments last week.