Dario Amodei · White House · Anthropic · China · Donald Trump · Google · Wired
Since then, there have been no new AI oversight proposals seriously under consideration at the White House
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Trump’s ire has stemmed at least in part from a 3,822 word missive by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on the dangers of frontier AI.
Key facts
- Trump’s ire has stemmed at least in part from a 3,822 word missive by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on the dangers of frontier AI
- White House aides initially started sketching out a framework for an AI oversight agency connected to the administration soon after Google DeepMind’s cofounder Demis Hassabis floated the idea
- The Treasury Department and the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy envisioned a body where leading AI labs would self-regulate the development of frontier models, and they put
- The bipartisan Frontier Act, a bill introduced this summer by House Democratic senior whip Lori Trahan and Republican House Energy and Commerce Committee member Jay Obernolte, is widely seen
Summary
For weeks, Washington has been abuzz with talk of needing to push through some sort of AI regulation amid mounting concerns about the risks of highly capable frontier AI models going rogue. But there is no reason to think any one measure can win the support of the White House, where officials have paused work on creating a FINRA-style regulatory body after President Donald Trump soured on the idea, or of Capitol Hill, where lawmakers have competing proposals that lack the votes to pass.
But when a chorus of tech executives —including Trump’s former AI czar David Sacks and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg—learned of the effort, they one by one called Trump in August to express their opposition.