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More than two dozen organizations from both the left and right are urging the White House to publicly release its voluntary AI security framework, per a letter shared first with Semafor.
“The government has a fundamental responsibility to share the parameters of the process for reviewing frontier AI models prior to wider deployment,” reads the letter, led by Americans for Responsible Innovation and the Center for Democracy and Technology.
The White House previewed the long-awaited framework last month with a select group of tech companies.
Pressure to release it has increased ever since, especially following OpenAI’s attack on AI model repository Hugging Face and the release of OpenAI’s latest model, Astra.
Earlier this month, nonprofit Protect Democracy sued the Trump administration to enforce a Freedom of Information Act request on the framework — part of Trump’s June order on AI — and the legal authority behind it.
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The Trump administration met its Aug. 1 internal deadline to roll out its voluntary framework for reviewing certain powerful AI models before they’re released to the public. Yet only a few people have actually seen it, with smaller and open-source AI companies generally getting excluded from the administration’s conversations.
As polls show the public increasingly favoring guardrails for AI safety — and opposing data center buildouts — the White House is likely to face still more calls for an explanation of why a more transparent framework is not possible.
The letter’s authors, including conservative-leaning groups like Americans for Prosperity and the R Street Institute along with pro-consumer groups like Free Press and Public Citizen, write that “a lack of accountability over the governance of a technology that is becoming more critical to our nation would be inconsistent with democratic values and likely lead to a loss of public trust.”
The groups also argue such a lack of transparency could entrench the most powerful labs and models with open-source companies in the dark, and that Congress should be looped in as well.