Behind the Trump Administration’s Potential Rethink on A.I.

The Trump administration, which took a noninterventionist approach to artificial intelligence, is now discussing imposing oversight on A.I. models before they are made publicly available.

The move follows the Trump administration’s feud with Anthropic.

Both parties can agree to do a whole lot on A.I., but they have to move faster.

Michael Kratsios, the president’s technology adviser, accused Chinese companies of stealing leading AI models made in the U.S.

Earlier this month the AI company Anthropic said it had created a model so powerful that, out of a sense of responsibility, it was not going to release it to the public. Anthropic says the model, Mythos Preview, excels at spotting and exploiting vulnerabilities in software, and could pose a severe risk to economies, public safety and national security. But is this the whole story? Some experts have expressed scepticism about the extent of the model’s capabilities. Ian Sample hears from Aisha Down, a reporter covering artificial intelligence for the Guardian, to find what the decision to limit access to Mythos reveals about Anthropic’s strategy, and whether the model might finally spur more regulation of the industry. ‘Too powerful for the public’: inside Anthropic’s bid to win the AI publicity war Support the Guardian: theguardian.com/sciencepod Continue reading...

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Despite recently being designated a supply-chain risk by the Pentagon, Anthropic is still talking to high-level members of the Trump administration.