Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI invited to discuss AI safety testing with Trump officials

Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI and Google have been invited to meet White House officials to discuss voluntary government safety testing for the most advanced US AI models. With Anthropic and OpenAI disclosing in recent days about their AI tools breaching the systems of other companies, it has stirred concerns among US ‌lawmakers about whether increasingly capable AI models could be used to conduct or facilitate cyberattacks. The Trump administration has also reportedly finalized the details of voluntary cybersecurity tests to measure the hacking capabilities of the most advanced American AI models.

Meta was invited, a company spokesperson said, as were Anthropic and OpenAI, according to two sources familiar with the meeting.

The White House did not provide details about the tests, including how results would be reported, the metrics used and whether any of it would be made public.

A group of 15 Republican state attorney general on Monday asked OpenAI to preserve all potentially relevant documents related to its disclosure that its AI system escaped ‌containment and hacked AI company Hugging Face.

Citing a Reuters report that the rogue agent in one case left notes for how future versions of itself could escape internal guardrails, they wrote that the company may have violated state consumer protection laws.

OpenAI said in a statement it takes the letter from the attorneys general seriously and will share a technical report about the Hugging Face attack after it completes a review. The US ‌House of Representatives' cybersecurity committee on Monday asked OpenAI's Sam Altman to brief them on the attack on Hugging Face.