The White House Is Keeping Its AI Cybersecurity Framework Secret
The White House Is Keeping Its AI Cybersecurity Framework Secret
白宫对其人工智能网络安全框架保密
The Trump administration has finalized a plan to address the cybersecurity risks posed by increasingly capable artificial intelligence models, a White House official confirmed to WIRED. But at least for now, it’s deliberately keeping the details under wraps, people familiar with the matter tell WIRED.
特朗普政府已敲定一项计划，旨在应对日益强大的人工智能模型所带来的网络安全风险。一位白宫官员向《连线》（WIRED）证实了这一消息。但据知情人士透露，至少目前，白宫正有意将细节保密。
The Trump administration invited staffers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Nvidia, and other leading AI companies to the White House on Tuesday to share an overview of its new AI oversight framework, the people said. AI developers will have the ability to voluntarily submit new models to the federal government up to 30 days ahead of their public release. The White House will then vet their cyber capabilities according to a classified benchmarking system and share the AI models with federal agencies and trusted corporate partners.
知情人士称，特朗普政府周二邀请了来自 OpenAI、Anthropic、谷歌、Meta、英伟达及其他领先人工智能公司的员工前往白宫，分享其新人工智能监管框架的概况。人工智能开发者可以在新模型公开发布前最多 30 天，自愿将其提交给联邦政府。随后，白宫将根据一套机密的基准测试系统审查这些模型的网络能力，并与联邦机构及受信任的企业合作伙伴共享这些人工智能模型。
The White House isn’t sharing more information about its testing criteria or which AI models will be covered by the framework, though open models will reportedly be excluded, according to Axios. That has left smaller AI startups, safety advocates, and third-party researchers in the dark about crucial aspects of how the federal government is addressing the cyber risks posed by advanced AI systems. Some argue that the secretive process will give an advantage to larger companies.
据 Axios 报道，白宫并未透露更多关于其测试标准或哪些人工智能模型将被纳入该框架的信息，不过据称开源模型将被排除在外。这使得较小的人工智能初创公司、安全倡导者和第三方研究人员对联邦政府如何应对先进人工智能系统带来的网络风险等关键方面一无所知。一些人认为，这种保密流程将使大型公司占据优势。
“They’re essentially creating an entrenchment program for the big AI model providers, which are now considered the most frontier,” says a person familiar with the White House’s discussions with AI labs, who requested anonymity to discuss confidential matters. “This creates an economic incentive program for critical infrastructure just to use them and leaves out smaller startups.”
“他们本质上是在为大型人工智能模型提供商建立一种巩固地位的计划，这些提供商目前被认为处于最前沿，”一位熟悉白宫与人工智能实验室讨论情况的人士表示，该人士因讨论机密事项而要求匿名。“这为关键基础设施使用这些大公司产品创造了一种经济激励计划，却将较小的初创公司排除在外。”
The White House did not respond to requests for comment.
白宫未回应置评请求。
The Trump administration may be keeping its AI security framework confidential because of national security concerns. A second White House official, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, emphasized that the new framework is intentionally narrow and is focused exclusively on the cybersecurity capabilities of the most advanced models on the market, such as Anthropic’s Fable and OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5.6.
特朗普政府对人工智能安全框架保密可能是出于国家安全考虑。第二位因未获授权向媒体发言而要求匿名的白宫官员强调，新框架的范围是有意缩小的，专门针对市场上最先进模型的网络安全能力，例如 Anthropic 的 Fable 和 OpenAI 的 ChatGPT 5.6。
But some AI safety advocates tell WIRED that any rules AI companies are being held to should be made public to ensure third-party groups can keep them accountable.
但一些人工智能安全倡导者告诉《连线》，人工智能公司所遵守的任何规则都应公开，以确保第三方团体能够对其进行监督。
“This is far too important an issue to be hidden behind a cloak of secrecy,” says Brad Carson, president of the nonprofit Americans for Responsible Innovation and cofounder of the pro-regulation Public First Action super PAC, which has funding from Anthropic. “This is not a handshake deal with tech companies. It’s the rulebook for ensuring they don’t endanger the public. If only tech companies know what’s in the rulebook, it doesn’t work.”
“这是一个太重要的问题，不能隐藏在保密的面纱之下，”非营利组织“美国负责任创新”（Americans for Responsible Innovation）主席、支持监管的超级政治行动委员会“Public First Action”联合创始人布拉德·卡森（Brad Carson）表示，该委员会获得了 Anthropic 的资助。“这不是与科技公司的握手交易。这是确保它们不会危害公众的规则手册。如果只有科技公司知道规则手册的内容，那它就起不到作用。”
Cyber Concerns / 网络担忧
The oversight framework stemmed from an executive order President Donald Trump signed earlier this year designed to address the cybersecurity risks of new AI models. In recent months, Trump officials have grown increasingly alarmed about the hacking capabilities of cutting-edge AI systems, which they worry could pose a serious risk to national security.
该监管框架源于唐纳德·特朗普总统今年早些时候签署的一项行政命令，旨在解决新人工智能模型的网络安全风险。近几个月来，特朗普政府官员对尖端人工智能系统的黑客攻击能力日益感到担忧，他们担心这可能对国家安全构成严重威胁。
Those fears escalated over the past two weeks when OpenAI and Anthropic said they discovered their AI models had unknowingly bypassed controls and hacked into third-party services during internal testing. The House Committee on Homeland Security sent a letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman last week requesting that he brief lawmakers about how one of the company’s AI agents breached the platform Hugging Face.
过去两周，当 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 表示发现其人工智能模型在内部测试中无意中绕过了控制并入侵了第三方服务时，这些担忧进一步升级。众议院国土安全委员会上周致信 OpenAI 首席执行官萨姆·奥特曼（Sam Altman），要求他向议员简要说明该公司的一款人工智能代理是如何入侵 Hugging Face 平台的。
“This incident really is a wake-up call for people that agent capabilities have now reached this level,” said Dawn Song, vice president of AI research at Meta, during a panel discussion on Saturday at UC Berkeley, where she is also a professor, referring to the Hugging Face breach.
“这一事件确实给人们敲响了警钟，人工智能代理的能力已经达到了这个水平，”Meta 人工智能研究副总裁、加州大学伯克利分校教授宋晓东（Dawn Song）周六在该校的一次小组讨论中提到 Hugging Face 入侵事件时说道。
The Trump administration’s new framework is an attempt to strike a balance between promoting competition in the AI industry and maintaining safety. The executive order notes that it should not be seen as a “mandatory licensing regime,” but critics have argued that the Trump administration’s opaque process has created just that.
特朗普政府的新框架试图在促进人工智能行业竞争与维护安全之间取得平衡。该行政命令指出，它不应被视为一种“强制许可制度”，但批评人士认为，特朗普政府不透明的流程恰恰造成了这种局面。
“The regulations necessary to prevent the catastrophic risks presented by uncontrolled AI and superintelligence should not be voluntary,” says Conor Leahy, executive director of ControlAI, a nonprofit focused on countering AI risks. “This action admits the danger but leaves the burden of safety in the hands of companies that have an incentive to proceed at full speed with disregard for the well-being of the public.”
“为防止不受控制的人工智能和超级智能带来的灾难性风险，必要的监管不应该是自愿的，”专注于应对人工智能风险的非营利组织 ControlAI 的执行董事康纳·莱希（Conor Leahy）表示。“这一行动承认了危险的存在，却将安全负担留给了那些有动力全速前进、无视公众福祉的公司手中。”
Weighty Matters / 重大议题
For the past year and a half, White House officials have been wrestling with how to mitigate the risks of advanced AI without stifling American innovation or ceding ground to China. President Trump returned to office promising to take a hands-off approach to AI, but his administration has shown a growing willingness to intervene on the issue. In June, for example, it took the unprecedented step of placing temporary export controls on Anthropic’s most advanced AI models over cybersecurity concerns.
在过去的一年半里，白宫官员一直在努力解决如何在不扼杀美国创新或向中国让步的情况下，减轻先进人工智能带来的风险。特朗普总统重返白宫时承诺对人工智能采取不干预的态度，但他的政府已表现出越来越强烈的干预意愿。例如，今年 6 月，出于网络安全考虑，政府采取了前所未有的举措，对 Anthropic 最先进的人工智能模型实施了临时出口管制。
The decision prompted Anthropic to take its models offline altogether until it could reach an agreement with the Trump administration. Later that month, OpenAI said it was delaying the rollout of its latest AI model, GPT-5.6, in response to a request from the White House. The saga prompted outcry from tech executives in Silicon Valley, who worried that excessive regulation could lock in a handful of companies as the winners of the AI race.
这一决定促使 Anthropic 将其模型完全下线，直到与特朗普政府达成协议。当月晚些时候，OpenAI 表示，应白宫要求，将推迟发布其最新的人工智能模型 GPT-5.6。这一事件引发了硅谷科技高管的强烈抗议，他们担心过度的监管可能会让少数几家公司锁定人工智能竞赛赢家的地位。
A key issue US officials have debated is whether to restrict the distribution of open-weight AI models, which can be freely downloaded and modified. A number of the leading ones are developed by Chinese companies and have become popular among researchers and startups. Some voices in Washington have called for a ban on Chinese open-weight models while others have advocated for promoting US open.
美国官员争论的一个关键问题是是否限制开源权重人工智能模型的发布，这些模型可以被自由下载和修改。其中一些领先的模型由中国公司开发，并在研究人员和初创公司中广受欢迎。华盛顿的一些声音呼吁禁止中国的开源权重模型，而另一些人则主张推广美国的开源模型。