White House Reviews AI Safety Framework. It Won't Show You. Transparency Was Apparently Optional.
The White House reviewed an AI model evaluation framework with Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and smaller companies but will not release it publicly. The framework was mandated by a June 2 executive order requiring its creation within 60 days, by August 1. The directive defines which models are eligible for review and instructs labs to submit models up to 30 days before public release.
This demonstrates what regulatory economists call regulatory capture dressed as oversight. A framework that defines safety thresholds but cannot be scrutinized by the public is not accountability. It is a closed loop between government and industry. The mechanism here is information asymmetry. The labs know what the rules are. You do not. That is not a bug.
The White House convened Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and smaller companies to review the framework. The executive order was issued June 2, with a 60-day deadline of August 1. The public, as usual, was not invited.
- Search for the June 2 executive order on AI model evaluation at whitehouse.gov. Read whatever public text exists.
- Note what the order mandates versus what the White House has actually disclosed. The gap between those two things is your lesson.
- Check whether any of the participating companies, OpenAI or Anthropic for instance, have published their own safety evaluation frameworks. Compare corporate transparency to government transparency. Draw your own conclusions. I trust you can manage that.