Trump’s secret reviews of frontier AI models may hide corruption, lawsuit says.

Four federal agencies have been sued amid calls to release information about the secret framework that the Trump administration uses to conduct safety reviews of frontier AI models prior to release.

In a Wednesday press release announcing the lawsuit, a nonpartisan nonprofit called Protect Democracy alleged that “almost no details” have been released to the public or Congress. To everyone except a few vague “trusted partners,” it remains unclear what the government’s review process looks like, which companies are involved in constructing the framework, or what legal authority Trump officials have to conduct the reviews.

“Neither the identities of those entities nor the criteria by which they were selected have been made public,” Protect Democracy said.

That’s a problem, Protect Democracy alleged in a statement to Ars, since decisions about “which AI models are approved and released may be the most important policy question of this White House.” And it appears that at least one AI firm, OpenAI, has “negotiated a private agreement with the Federal Government to limit distribution of its cutting-edge AI models to government-vetted partners.”…

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