With public anxiety growing over mounting reports about out-of-control artificial intelligence agents, the tiny U.S. government division charged with assessing the safety of new AI offerings lacks a permanent leader and has stopped publishing its research.
Officials with the Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence, or CAISSI, an independent division of the Commerce Department, recently were asked to informally report to an office of the White House. That’s according to two former government officials with knowledge of the ongoing conversations who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to avoid repercussions for current staffers.
The new arrangement concerns some critics, who worry that the executive branch might be politicizing decisions that could affect everything from cybersecurity to bioweapons and that the center’s findings could be altered or muted in deference to the tech industry, which has been largely entrusted to police itself.
Nothing says “independent department” like naming yourself after an in-group propaganda term that the actual worldwide sector refuses to acknowledge. If you hear a person use the term “super intelligence” to refer to LLMs and AI as a whole, then they are a fascist. Full stop. No AI developers will ever use this term because it actually has a legitimate meaning in machine learning and AI advancement, and words still matter to some people.
Yeah thr better one to reference which isn’t AI industry bankrolled would be www.red-lines.ai/
