Super Intelligence Task Force tells AI firms to report rogue behavior

The Super Intelligence Task Force's first move stands out because it is a rare effort by the Trump administration to exert more power over firms developing advanced AI. The trigger was an Anthropic incident in which a testing model submitted visa applications, according to a State Department spokesman, and the task force has labeled its response a "notification and remediation process."

The administration's decision to make an example of Anthropic is likely to trigger more disclosures than before, even though frontier AI labs largely do this sort of disclosure and incident reporting already. Task force leaders Jay Clayton, Andrew Ferguson, Scott Kupor, and Emil Michael said delayed notification, inadequate corrective action, and a failure to take responsibility will not be tolerated.

Companies are seeking more clarity. The effectiveness and scope of the new requirements will depend in part on how the task force defines an "incident," how quickly it must be disclosed, who it must be reported to, and the consequences for not doing so. Officials have yet to lay out these details. Anthropic contacted the task force to disclose the latest incident and has a history of reporting security episodes publicly and tweaking models to prevent more harm.