Five questions the U.S. government should answer about its classified frontier AI framework

AI governance and policy advisor Michelle De Mooy writes in Tech Policy Press, raising five questions that should be publicly answered about the frontier AI review framework developed under U.S. Executive Order 14409. The order requires an NSA-led group to develop a framework allowing AI developers to open their models to the government for up to 30 days before release, without requiring public disclosure of evaluation methods, and the White House has said the framework will be kept classified. The author argues the framework should publish the capability thresholds that trigger review, set a time limit on review with default approval upon expiration, disclose access criteria, provide an appeals process and public reporting, and notes that current policy targets only individual models, not agentic systems composed of multiple models and tool calls.