The White House says it discussed a framework for evaluating the cybersecurity risks of frontier AI models with OpenAI and Anthropic, but it doesn’t plan to release details publicly. The secrecy (frontier labs are being asked to submit the most powerful models for assessment 30 days before releasing them) has drawn criticism from AI safety advocates. There’s little expectation an AI model can truly be certified as “safe” — the technology is used in literally every industry and safety evaluations rely on valuable knowledge from past mistakes. No lab, nonprofit, or government agency can address the worst fears of the most extreme AI-safety critics: that AI models could one day be so powerful that humanity loses control of them. If you buy that argument, this is the first technology in history where we can’t afford to learn that way.