While AI Keeps Going Rogue, Trump’s Safety Theater Makes No Sense
America’s top AI companies must submit new models for government review and public release… unless, of course, they don’t feel like it. That appears to be the gist of the Trump administration’s new AI safety assessment framework, which was shared with industry leaders in a closed-door briefing at the White House on Tuesday. According to the Wall Street Journal, the new rules will apply exclusively to the small handful of American AI developers building proprietary models—i.e., AI systems like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini whose underlying code is hidden from external developers and protected as company IP.
- ▪America’s top AI companies must submit new models for government review and public release… unless, of course, they don’t feel like it.
- ▪That appears to be the gist of the Trump administration’s new AI safety assessment framework, which was shared with industry leaders in a closed-door briefing at the White House on Tuesday.
- ▪According to the Wall Street Journal, the new rules will apply exclusively to the small handful of American AI developers building proprietary models—i.e., AI systems like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini whose underlying code is hidden from ext
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America’s top AI companies must submit new models for government review and public release… unless, of course, they don’t feel like it. That appears to be the gist of the Trump administration’s new AI safety assessment framework, which was shared with industry leaders in a closed-door briefing at the White House on Tuesday. According to the Wall Street Journal, the new rules will apply exclusively to the small handful of American AI developers building proprietary models—i.e., AI systems like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini whose underlying code is hidden from external developers and protected as company IP.
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