What is White House?

The White House voluntary frontier model evaluation process covers only cybersecurity risk, leaving all other AI risk categories unaddressed.

“Currently many of the frontier labs are working with the White House on the so-called voluntary, but a lot of industry will call that not voluntary, model evaluation. And that process and mechanism is solving only a very specific problem, and that is to manage the risk of cybersecurity. It doesn't manage anything else.”

Scott Anderson notes that confirmed US-Iran negotiations are actually Iran-Oman and Iran-Qatar talks, not direct US-Iran negotiations, despite White House claims of direct talks.

“The only negotiations I think that we have reporting confirmed of is actually more Iran-Oman, and to some extent Qatar negotiations, not actually direct US-Iran negotiations.”

Steve Vladeck on White House coordination against lower federal courts.

“There is sustained coordination in this between the White House, the Justice Department, and congressional Republicans.”

The White House uses a 'born free vs. born in captivity' framework to categorize technologies by whether they require government approval to commercialize, identifying where to remove regulatory barriers rather than add them.

“There's there's there's technologies that are either born free or born in captivity.”

Karen Young on oil company executives privately ignoring White House pressure to invest in high-risk markets.

“If there is a risk which is too great to invest in some places then maybe they will say very politely yes we are looking into that we are very much interested and hopefully you know at some point something else is going to come along and maybe the US administration and the US president would have forgotten about that.”

IRA emissions modeling assumed transmission and interconnection bottlenecks would be fixed, but those fixes never materialized, undermining projected climate gains.

“Then in the footnotes of that, they're saying like, 'Well, and this is assuming that we're going to fix all kinds of transmission problems.' But then they didn't fix the problems with interconnection, with transmission, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.”

AI labs are pushing for only a 14-day pre-release government review window, sharply undercutting the White House's proposed 90-day requirement.

“The labs want to share their models just 14 days prior to release.”

The ethics provision in the Clarity Act is its single biggest legislative risk. The White House is open to it only if it applies broadly and does not exclusively target the president or vice president.

“The White House has pretty much signaled that as long as the ethics provision does not solely single out the president or vice president the constitutional officers that they represent they could be for they could be okay with it.”

Zvi Mowshowitz on how a jailbreak reporting field triggered a White House panic that led to export controls on Anthropic.

“A mandatory jailbreak reporting field, a non-technical reviewer, a panic that climbed all the way to the White House.”