White House Withholds New AI Evaluation Framework
AI experts react on social media to Axios report on withheld evaluation criteria.
Stella Biderman called backroom deals on judging advanced AI threats anti-democratic and dangerous. Miles Brundage noted the framework exists but will stay private. Gary Marcus warned secrecy will erode trust in the US government and companies while accelerating foreign sovereign models. Nick Dobos and others labeled the secrecy terrifying. Retweets from Danielle Fong and Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh echoed concerns about transparency harming AI safety. The posts cite Axios coverage of the decision.
NEW: White House does not plan to publicly release its new framework for evaluating advanced AI models. https://www.axios.com/2026/08/04/white-house-ai-framework-under-wraps
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Stella Biderman@BlancheMinervaBackroom deals for how the threat of advanced AI models are going to be judged makes the world a more dangerous place.
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CB DF SB Stella Biderman@BlancheMinervaBackroom deals for how the threat of advanced AI models are going to be judged is anti-democratic and makes the world a more dangerous place.
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MB TB Theo Bearman@theobearmanThis is a big disappointment. If nothing else, the public now won’t know whether the framework was extended to include internal models and incident reporting, both of which would have been hugely welcome in the wake of the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident.
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