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A day after reporting from The New York Times said the Trump administration was considering whether to tighten its oversight of the AI industry, Google, Microsoft and xAI have signed agreements to provide the federal government with early access to their AI systems. According to the The Wall Street Journal, the Commerce Department Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) will evaluate new models the companies develop.
“Independent, rigorous measurement science is essential to understanding frontier AI and its national security implications,” CAISI director Chris Fall told The Journal. “These expanded industry collaborations help us scale our work in the public interest at a critical moment.” The deal reportedly calls for Google, Microsoft and xAI to provide their models to CAISI with reduced or even disabled safeguards in order for the organization to probe them for national security-related capabilities and risks.
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