Trump forced to admit Biden was right on AI safety testing. This week, the Trump administration back pedaled and signed agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI to run government safety checks on the firms’ frontier AI models before and after their release. Previously, Donald Trump had stubbornly cast aside the Biden-era policy, dismissing the need for voluntary safety checks as overregulation blocking unbridled innovation. Soon after taking office, he took the extra step of rebranding the US AI Safety Institute to the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), removing “safety” from the name in a pointed jab at Joe Biden. But after Anthropic announced that it would be too risky to release its latest Claude Mythos model—fearing that bad actors might exploit its advanced cybersecurity capabilities—Trump is suddenly concerned about AI safety. According to White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, Trump may soon issue an executive order mandating government testing of advanced AI systems prior to release, Fortune reported. In CAISI’s press release, the center acknowledges that the voluntary agreements signed by Google, Microsoft, and xAI “build on”
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President Donald Trump said Monday that he intends to suspend the federal gas tax amid soaring prices at the pump as the US war with Iran drags on. The spike is deepening consumersâ pessimism about the economy, adding to Republicansâ…
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President Donald Trump said Monday that he intends to suspend the federal gas tax amid soaring prices at the pump as the US war with Iran drags on. The spike is deepening consumersâ pessimism about the economy, adding…
Read original at CNN →Critics say document outlining strategy is both âcompletely Trumpianâ and an âalarmingâ escalation in rhetoric When Donald Trumpâs counter-terrorism âczarâ, Sebastian Gorka, introduced the Trump…
Read original at The Guardian →Trump forced to admit Biden was right on AI safety testing. This week, the Trump administration back pedaled and signed agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI to run government safety checks on the firms’…
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President Donald Trump said Monday that he intends to suspend the federal gas tax amid soaring prices at the pump as the US war with Iran drags on. The spike is deepening consumersâ pessimism about the economy, adding to Republicansâ…
View source →Critics say document outlining strategy is both âcompletely Trumpianâ and an âalarmingâ escalation in rhetoric When Donald Trumpâs counter-terrorism âczarâ, Sebastian Gorka, introduced the Trump administrationâs…
View source →Trump forced to admit Biden was right on AI safety testing. This week, the Trump administration back pedaled and signed agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI to run government safety checks on the firms’ frontier AI models…
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