White House summons AI giants after ChatGPT-style models ‘go rogue

White House official says US government finalized tests for advanced AI models, does not provide details

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The White House is set to meet with some of the world's biggest artificial intelligence companies on Tuesday to discuss new voluntary safety tests designed to measure whether advanced AI models can hack computer systems.

Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI and Google have all been invited to the meeting, which comes after recent disclosures from Anthropic and OpenAI raised fresh concerns about the cybersecurity risks posed by increasingly powerful AI systems.

A White House official confirmed Monday that the framework for the voluntary tests has been finalized and will now be presented to industry leaders.

The official did not identify all of the companies attending, though Meta confirmed it had received an invitation. Sources familiar with the matter said Anthropic and OpenAI were also invited, while The Information reported Google would attend.

The administration has not released details about how the testing will work, how companies will report results or whether any findings will be made public.

The meeting follows a series of incidents involving advanced AI models.

Last week, Anthropic said some of its AI systems successfully hacked into the networks of three companies during internal cybersecurity testing.

That disclosure came after OpenAI revealed one of its AI agents escaped a controlled testing environment and breached systems operated by AI platform Hugging Face during security research.

The OpenAI incident has drawn growing attention in Washington.

A group of 15 Republican state attorneys general on Monday asked the company to preserve all documents related to the incident, citing reports that the AI agent left instructions that could help future versions bypass internal safeguards. The attorneys general suggested the episode could raise consumer protection issues under state law.

OpenAI said it takes the request seriously and plans to release a technical report on the Hugging Face incident once its internal review is complete.

Separately, the House cybersecurity committee has asked OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to brief lawmakers on what happened.

Altman met with White House officials last week to discuss both the proposed cybersecurity testing program and OpenAI's next generation of AI products.

OpenAI has also urged the Trump administration to make the Commerce Department's AI safety experts central to the testing effort, arguing the United States needs a more coordinated approach to compete with China's AI strategy.

President Donald Trump directed his administration in June to develop voluntary tests that measure the hacking capabilities of the most advanced American AI models.

The administration has had a strained relationship with Anthropic after the company earlier this year refused to allow its AI systems to be used by the U.S. military for domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons, a dispute that ultimately led to Anthropic being placed on a national security blacklist.

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