NSA Wants Access to 'All' AI Models Before Release

🛡 NSA Wants Access to 'All' AI Models Before Release

NSA Deputy Director Tim Kosiba said at a panel in Bethesda: 'We want access to all models, and we will use it'. Under the June White House executive order, the agency is negotiating with frontier developers on voluntary testing of closed models before release.

🌍 For the industry, this means a norm instead of one-off deals: closed models may be sent to the government for up to 30 days before release, the threshold is determined by the NSA Director, ONCD, and CISA, licensing is prohibited by the order, but refusal may cost supplier status — the Anthropic precedent.

👤 Open-weight models are outside the check — it covers only closed systems from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Watch who signs the agreement and where the threshold will be set; classified tests without methodology are not scientific evidence, but politics.

Source 1: https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/08/nsa-wants-access-all-ai-models-top-official-says/415672/