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Nathan Calvin

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General Counsel and VP of State Affairs @EncodeAction

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This is... not a remotely accurate description of what the 2023 Al executive order did? Undersecretary Emil Michael: "If you remember the Biden executive order on Al, which was this crazy executive order that limited the amount of compute any model company could do and was essentially grandfathering in a small number of ai companies that they were gonna designate as the winners, and everyone else was out" Its not true that the EO limited the compute that AI companies could do. What it did do was require companies who were training models above a certain very high compute threshold (10^26 FLOP or 10^23 FLOP for models trained primarily on biological sequence data) to notify the government and share what testing and red teaming they were doing for certain national security risks. People are free to dislike the Biden AI EO! But it seems good to factually describe what the policy said.

This is... not a remotely accurate description of what the 2023 Al executive order did? Undersecretary Emil Michael: "If you remember the Biden executive order on Al, which was this crazy executive order that limited the amount of compute any model company could do and was essentially grandfathering in a small number of ai companies that they were gonna designate as the winners, and everyone else was out" Its not true that the EO limited the compute that AI companies could do. What it did do was require companies who were training models above a certain very high compute threshold (10^26 FLOP or 10^23 FLOP for models trained primarily on biological sequence data) to notify the government and share what testing and red teaming they were doing for certain national security risks. People are free to dislike the Biden AI EO! But it seems good to factually describe what the policy said.

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Bernie Sanders talking about the “Model Evaluation Threat Research Group” graph during his talk at Stanford

Bernie Sanders talking about the “Model Evaluation Threat Research Group” graph during his talk at Stanford

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