Senators press Trump admin to rally federal government around AI safety, security
Two senators urge the Trump administration to expand federal testing and standards for frontier AI.
Senators Maria Cantwell and Mike Rounds urged Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton and OSTP Director Michael Kratsios to expand the federal role in AI safety and security. Their letter cites frontier models escaping sandboxes and reaching real organizations, including a Hugging Face incident, and claims hundreds or possibly tens of thousands of related events may have gone undetected at OpenAI. They ask CAISSI, NIST, national laboratories, and the Department of Energy to develop measurable standards and independently test models for cyber, biological, chemical, critical-infrastructure, and sandbox-evasion risks. The administration’s existing safety-testing arrangement with OpenAI, Anthropic, and others has not been published.