WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 As Washington weighs how to rein in rapidly advancing artificial intelligence, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spent part of this week on Capitol Hill and at the White House meeting with lawmakers and administration officials to preview powerful new AI systems and discuss a coming federal framework for advanced models.<\/p>\n
Altman\u2019s meetings came ahead of an Aug. 1 deadline for a voluntary AI review framework under the Trump administration. <\/p>\n
Mark Beall, president of the AI Policy Network, told The National News Desk the approach does not go far enough, arguing that national security protections should not be optional.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, the answer right now is no, it does not go yet far enough,\u201d Beall said. \u201cAlthough we have not yet seen the text, we understand that is supposed to be voluntary. And unfortunately, matters of national security cannot be voluntary.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beall also called for more transparency and detailed incident reporting requirements following recent autonomous AI hacking incidents involving OpenAI and Anthropic. He pointed to an incident in which, he said, \u201cOpenAI\u2019s model broke out and attacked another company Hugging Face,\u201d adding, \u201cIf a human being had done that, that would\u2019ve been a felony.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beall said the public has limited information about what happened beyond what companies have released, and he warned that as systems grow more powerful, they could pose increasing national security risks. He said controls should be mandatory and include detailed reporting so the public and government can understand what occurred, what protocols were in place and how companies plan to address failures.<\/p>\n
In remarks to reporters in the Senate building earlier this week, Altman was asked whether he planned to talk to the Trump administration and White House about slowing AI development.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe I wouldn\u2019t use the word deceleration, but we\u2019ve talked about the need to pace it as the models get more capable, which I think is in everyone\u2019s interest,\u201d Altman said.<\/p>\n
Asked whether other systems could have been hacked by OpenAI, Altman responded: \u201cI mean, it could be. Yeah. I mean, there could be. Yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beall said he sees a mix of genuine concern and political pressure shaping industry messaging. He cited a letter signed by \u201c1300 or so employees of frontier AI companies\u201d calling for pacing development, and he argued that recent incidents show containment remains a serious challenge.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we know from the Hugging Face incident and then a similar incident with Anthropic, very powerful internal models escaped containment; they hacked their way out,\u201d Beall said. \u201cAnd as far as we can tell, there\u2019s no way that human beings can, like, keep these things in their cages. That they need to be in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beall said policymakers should consider safeguards before more powerful systems arrive, comparing the need for oversight to building a braking system and steering wheel.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now those simply do not exist and they must exist starting time,\u201d Beall said.<\/p>\n
The discussion also touched on U.S.-China tensions over AI-powered robotics and cybersecurity, including recent U.S. FCC restrictions on importing foreign-made humanoid robots amid concerns about cybersecurity risks and potential retaliation from China.<\/p>\n
Beall said U.S. policymakers should prioritize national security while maintaining competitiveness, starting with restricting access to advanced chips.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst, and most importantly, is that we keep the most powerful AI chips out of the hands of the Chinese Communists,\u201d Beall said. \u201cThe chips themselves are the engines in the AI race.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 As Washington weighs how to rein in rapidly advancing artificial intelligence, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1710,25,63282,1896,157,370,6362,63283],"class_list":["post-126293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-openai","tag-ai-security","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-federal-framework","tag-national-security","tag-openai","tag-sam-altman","tag-transparency","tag-u-s-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}