特朗普政府拒绝提供与其自愿性 AI 测试框架相关的关键文件，尽管双方在 9 月达成协议，此前非营利组织“保护民主项目”曾提起《信息自由法》诉讼。白宫国家网络总监办公室周五致函该非营利组织，信函副本由《The Information》获悉，特朗普政府的 FOIA 办公室在信中援引国家安全豁免和商业豁免，主张无需共享该框架的完整草案，以及包括获准提前接触前沿 AI 模型的公司和其他组织记录在内的相关文件。信中确实提供了一些关于白宫“可信合作伙伴”计划以及框架范围的细节。
The Trump administration declined to produce key documents related to its voluntary AI testing framework, despite an agreement struck in September with the nonprofit Protect Democracy Project after a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. In a letter sent to the nonprofit on Friday by the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director and shared with The Information, the Trump administration’s FOIA office cited national security and commercial exemptions to argue that it did not have to share a full draft of the framework, as well as related documents including records of companies and other organizations allowed early access to frontier AI models. The letter did provide some details on the White House’s “trusted partner” program, as well as the scope of the framework.
该框架由 6 月的一项行政命令创建，一直是生产模型或使用其他实验室模型的 AI 公司担忧的来源。它规定了 Anthropic 和 OpenAI 等前沿 AI 公司在向公众发布新模型前，提交模型供政府审查的流程。尽管如此，白宫在 8 月初敲定框架后，仅向一小部分公司进行了简报，并拒绝更广泛地分享该流程如何运作的细节。这让许多公司在框架的关键方面仍存在未解疑问，包括哪些公司符合“可信合作伙伴”资格，可在模型广泛发布前获得前沿模型的高级访问权限。
The framework, which was created by a June executive order, has been a source of consternation for AI companies producing models or using other labs’ models. It lays out a process for frontier AI companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI to submit their new models for government review before releasing them to the public. Still, after finalizing the framework in early August, the White House has only briefed a select group of companies and refused to share details more broadly on how the process works. That has left unanswered questions for many companies on key aspects of the framework, including which companies qualify as “trusted partners” and can receive advanced access to frontier models before their wide release.
国家网络总监办公室周五发出的信件确实提供了一些答案。在为回应《信息自由法》诉讼而提交的一份文件清单中，白宫详述了一个由一份七页的 Word 文档组成的“自愿 AI 框架”。其余大部分文件是国家网络总监办公室和商务部发给 AI 实验室和供应商的电子邮件，确定了获准在发布前接触前沿模型的可信合作伙伴，表明政府正在为可信合作伙伴计划批准一份组织“白名单”。
The Office of the National Cyber Director’s letter sent on Friday does provide some answers. In a list of documents that it produced in response to the FOIA lawsuit, the White House details a “voluntary AI framework” consisting of a seven-page word document. The majority of the rest of the documents are emails from the Office of the National Cyber Director and the Commerce Department to AI labs and vendors identifying trusted partners cleared for pre-release access to frontier models, signaling that the government is approving a “white list” of organizations for the trusted partner program.
“联邦政府要求公众信任一个发布前审查 AI 模型的框架，但只有政府和 AI 公司知道框架的内容，”保护民主项目主任 Vivian Dong 在一份声明中说，“这是不可接受的，我们将继续在法庭上抗争，直到公众能够看到它。”白宫未回应置评请求。
“The federal government is asking the public to trust a framework for reviewing AI models before they’re released, but only the government and AI companies know what the framework says,” said Vivian Dong, a director at the Protect Democracy project, in a statement. “That isn’t acceptable, and we’ll keep fighting in court until the public can see it.”The White House did not respond to a request for comment.