Trump's latest AI czar has already resigned
The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position as czar. Chris Fall, the director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), has resigned, the agency confirmed to multiple news outlets. He was appointed just three months ago after the last appointee, Collin Burns, left in less than a week, The Washington Post reported at the time.
Key Takeaways
- Burns was reportedly "pushed out" of the job in April because he previously worked for Anthropic and the Trump administration had been battling with the company, sources told the Post.
- CAISI, which operates under the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is the primary organization for developing technical standards and testing methods for AI models as well as assessing cybersecurity risks.
Yet it was not the agency at the center of the most recent model-risk brouhaha.
- Earlier this month, the White House also signed an executive order for a new AI safety oversight program called "Gold Eagle" that creates a clearinghouse for cybersecurity vulnerability coordination.
A host of federal organizations were named as part of the program, including the Commerce Department and Department of Homeland Security.
- The administration was weighing efforts to somehow ban Chinese open models, Axios reported .
This sparked immediate debate and outrage over the weekend, including from Sacks , who argued that regulations shouldn't be used as a protectionism strategy for U.
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Burns was reportedly "pushed out" of the job in April because he previously worked for Anthropic and the Trump administration had been battling with the company, sources told the Post. No reason was given for Fall's departure. Prior to leading CAISI, Fall was the director of the Department of Energy's Office of Science during the first Trump administration and had been the acting director of the DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy.
He worked in the DOE's Office of Naval Research (ONR) prior to that. Before Burns and Fall, the agency was led by venture capitalist David Sacks, whose title at the time was White House AI and crypto czar. CAISI, which operates under the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is the primary organization for developing technical standards and testing methods for AI models as well as assessing cybersecurity risks.
Yet it was not the agency at the center of the most recent model-risk brouhaha. That occurred in June when the U. Commerce Department invoked an obscure export control directive that effectively forced Anthropic to pull its Mythos and Fable models from the market.
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