Classified estimates put NSA spending on AI model testing at billions a year.

Jeff Stein's Washington Sun piece (September 24) says the money comes from classified parts of the national security budget with compute as the largest cost, far above public proposals like the roughly $20M a year in the AI Security and Innovation Act. The Pentagon declined to discuss "resource allocation for its AI tools." It reopens the question of whether labs should pay for independent audits rather than taxpayers.