Policy scholar Dean W. Ball argues the U.S. operates an informal, opaque frontier AI licensing regime with no clear rules

We also apparently have unwritten rules that frontier models can't be trained outside the U.S.

This state of affairs probably won't persist for long, and it will probably be up to this administration and the upcoming edition of Congress to enshrine an actual written legal framework.

Whatever you may think of Dario or Anthropic, Friday’s decision, and the impetuousness and arbitrariness of it, was a terrible mistake that has left a stain that will last.

Washington needs to fix this.

@deanwball @zooko Anthropic has violated every layer of the survivability onion for tanks. Just put Dario back in the crystal and have a new CEO. Nothing else has to change, he only had one direct report and half the employees think like him anyway.

@deanwball yeah, everyone's shouting at Dario but it seems the anti-regulation folk got us here

@deanwball > it's just informal

Informal? It's based on vibes, culture, and how much your firm has donated to Trump's SuperPAC.

The new culture wars are artificial.

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@deanwball I voted for this!

@deanwball You’re the best placed to know that it was extremely close to be institutionalized under the previous admin with the EO on safe Ai development in Oct. 23 and the last EO in Jan. 25 introducing tiered partner countries.

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@deanwball Agreed but surely that makes the case for formal accreditation stronger

@deanwball @AnikVJoshi We await the rise of artisanal model development

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@deanwball Spot on! It’s a pay to play that would make corruption in Africa blush. @sama cashed in on his $50M payment after completing analysis on Fable.

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@deanwball so, like a business license

@deanwball It’s become rather difficult to justify living in the US anymore - from every angle

@deanwball should take a page from the russian shadow fleet tanker and just change their name to Smythos...

@GaryMarcus No one really understands what Anthropic wants to do anymore using ai. Even them :)

@deanwball I'd rather Anthropic move its lab to China.