America is in an AI race that will shape our economy, our national security, and our future. But you cannot win a race by giving some competitors the rules and leaving everyone else guessing.

The White House has finalized its new AI safety framework, but it does not plan to publicly release the framework or the evaluation criteria it will use for advanced AI models. Instead, only a handful of large AI companies will be informed of the standards and can therefore act accordingly. Despite clearly good intentions to protect national security while fostering growth, this decision is the worst of both worlds, pairing all the competition-slowing harm of nebulous governance with the trust-destroying lack of transparency and favoritism.