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Policy @bfl_ai. Affiliate @BKCHarvard. ex-Stability AI (weights), GoogleX (drones), Uber (rides), Coinbase (magic beans). Views my own
Et tu, Demis? "Once the assessment protocol is shown to be effective and robust, formalisation could quickly follow, meaning that Frontier Models would be required to pass it to be deployed in the US market." Ask ten different AI CEOs, godfathers, and safety institutes when a model release is acceptable (or when it's OK to publish frontier weights on Hugging Face), and you'll get ten different answers. That was the problem with these ideas in 2022, and it's still the problem today.
The steady provision of models will encourage global dependency on the labs and countries that share them. And vice versa. x.com/nathanbenaich/…
@wrwagox @robrombach The same way we handle every other capable, versatile, composable technology: layers of mitigation up and down the supply chain. There's more work to be done at the model layer. For most AI risks, there is more work to be done downstream too.
At the G7 today, sitting across from Presidents Trump and von der Leyen, our @robrombach made the case for open innovation in AI. "...It’s crucial that we strike the right balance. A climate of fear around open technology, or a focus on suppression over diffusion, will leave the world reliant on a handful of firms for critical infrastructure. @bfl_ai is ready to work with you all to make open and responsible innovation the norm, not the exception."
It will be ironic if AI's big "code is speech" war is fought by Anthropic. The reluctant Bernstein of our times.
What Anthropic wanted: a federal authority vetting model releases What Anthropic got: a federal authority vetting model releases
ARGH. This is so, so, so frustrating. Unlike 99.9% of the Hayes Valley chattering class, I've actually worked with the FAA and its 3-letter friends. I cannot imagine a better way to kill off open innovation in AI than "FAA for weights". But it's also disappointing because I x.com/DarioAmodei/st…
Anthropic already told us that with the right system prompt, Claude would SWAT its own user. That was a generous warning: i.e. model behavior can be amplified, modified, or suppressed based on features hidden from the user. Nothing about these Fable 5 guardrails is surprising. x.com/ahall_research…
You wouldn't guess it from all the "light touch" rhetoric, but the Obernolte-Trahan AI bill is uncomfortably close to FDA-for-models. CAISI will license auditors, who must verify the "adequacy" of the developer's safety framework for achieving an "acceptable" levels of risk.
I guess they need to offer a big carrot to justify federal preemption, although I'd prefer neither tbh.
I signed this call for mandatory DNA synthesis screening because it showcases how AI regulation is meant to work: (1) A tightly scoped intervention that (2) mitigates a credible risk (3) at the most proximate chokepoint, (4) preserving open access to versatile models. x.com/AlecStapp/stat…
A concrete example includes the Cotton-Klobuchar bill: cotton.senate.gov/news/press-rel…
Glad to see the distinction between model evaluation with & without pre-clearance is becoming clearer in industry advocacy, eg. @OpenAI's paper today. These are very different propositions. Conflating the two is why earlier proposals floundered (e.g. mandatory UKAISI testing).
Delighted that Martin Scorsese has joined us to explore how AI can be thoughtfully applied to storytelling. We're also sensitive to the depth of feeling on AI in Hollywood. That's understandable! It would be odd if folks didn't have strong views. A few personal reflections on x.com/bfl_ai/status/…
Per @WHOSTP47: "We are NOT conducting oversight of all new models, as that level of government overreach would have chilling effects on free speech and innovation"
Pope Leo is an open-source champion
Here's the thing: you don't need an EO to set up a voluntary beta release, nor do you need to define a "covered frontier model" for a voluntary beta. As @DavidSacks & POTUS correctly surmised, this EO was just one adjective and one sentence away from endorsing "FDA for weights". x.com/SophiaCai99/st…
