Making CAISI the AI agency the US needs - by Veronica Irwin
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The center has the right expertise, but lacks money, authority and influence
Credit: Oliver Kemp for Transformer CAISI isn’t under threat. But it has been sidelined. The Center for AI Standards and Innovation is the primary US government office tasked with overseeing frontier model development. Yet it was only peripherally involved in the administration’s decisions to impose export controls on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable, or in delaying then approving OpenAI’s GPT 5.6. The decision to block Mythos and Fable was technically taken by the Commerce Department, which contains the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) within which CAISI sits. Yet the…
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