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Comment by Michelle Lopes Maldonado

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Associate director for AI policy at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation; former Virginia state delegate and AI policy leader.
The goal should not be to regulate everything that crosses yesterday’s compute threshold, but to identify the models that actually represent today’s technological frontier and tomorrow’s greatest risks. A dynamic, capability-based definition would give policymakers a better chance of doing both.
AI Verified (Aug 28, 2026)
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Michelle Lopes Maldonado, “AI’s Frontier Is Moving. Its Legal Definition Should Too,” Center for Data Innovation, August 28, 2026.
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Mandate reporting of AI training runs above 10²⁶ FLOPs to a designated national or international authority
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AI Verified Maldonado specifically criticizes fixed compute thresholds and supports a capability-based alternative, opposing this threshold reporting mandate. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 20d ago
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AI Verified Correct answer: against. Maldonado rejects fixed compute thresholds in favor of capability-based definitions, opposing threshold reporting. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 20d ago

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AI Verified Center for Data Innovation article by Michelle Lopes Maldonado, August 28 2026, contains this passage. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 20d ago
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