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White House Tells AI Labs to Test in US Before UK

White House Tells AI Labs: to Test in U.S.US Before U.K.UK

Above: U.S. President Donald Trump and Open AI CEO Sam Altman in Evian, eastern France, on June 17, 2026. Image credit: Ludovic MARIN/AFP/Getty Images

The Spin


SuperintelligenceAI should be governed by the nations that build it, not by foreign institutes or globalist bodies angling for a vetosay overin American innovation. Sovereign capability means domestic testing, domestic rules and domestic accountability, —with anything less handshanding outsiders leverage over critical infrastructure. Permissionless innovation built the greatest tech ecosystem on earth, and itAmerica will keepnot thechange frontierits hereways atfor homevested interests.

Walking away from the world's strongest government evaluation body is self-sabotage, becauseripping pre-deploymentup a testing framework that has already caught real vulnerabilities in nearly every major modelsystem release. SovereigntyU.S. isn'tAI autarkysovereignty —is it'snot optionality,undermined by trusted alliancesallies andhelping theensure capabilityAI tosystems checkare whatsafe getsfor deployedall. TurningFor safetythe expertisesake intoof athe globalworld, exportmiddle ispowers exactlylike howthe aU.K. mid-sizemust nationcontinue buysto real leverage overfrontier itsevaluation owncapabilities AIto futuremaintain a multi-directional global order.


Metaculus Prediction

There is an 81.5% chance that any frontier AI companu will experience soft nationalization before Jan. 1, 2030, according to the Metaculus prediction community.


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