Expert opinions on Transparency

It’s a catch-it-early and sound-the-alarm bill.

Rather than creating entirely new channels, policymakers should focus on ensuring that existing channels can effectively incorporate information related to frontier models and agents. Building on trusted relationships will be faster and more effectiv...

Developers publish broad, top-level safety and ethics frameworks that sound reassuring, but are publishing limited empirical evidence needed to actually understand the risks.

The draft implementing regulation should clearly differentiate between API access, which should be the preferred method for safety evaluations where access to documents and relevant information are deemed insufficient, and “further” means of access, ...

The future of AI and democracy should not be left only to engineers, companies, or governments. It must be shaped through democratic debate, legal accountability, public participation, and strong protection of fundamental rights.

It is not enough to invoke ethics in the abstract; robust legal frameworks, independent oversight, informed users and a political system that does not abdicate its responsibility are required.

For the most advanced frontier AI models, an independent, federally overseen, industry-backed organization could set safety standards and verify independent, voluntary audits, similar to how other critical sectors are managed.

The challenge ahead is therefore not merely regulatory. In a deeper sense, it is about governing rationality itself, ensuring that as these systems grow more capable, they remain accountable, interpretable and anchored in values that cannot be reduce...

We have a very natural instinct to say: we want as much interpretability as possible. One of the sci-fi worry cases is that agents start speaking in languages to each other that we don't understand. [...] I bet there are ways to define boundaries tha...

[...] principles requiring that AI be explicable are misguided. We should be deciding which decisions require explanations. Automation is still an option;

Developers conducting training runs above an agreed compute threshold could be required to register them in an international registry. Telemetry from export-controlled AI chips could be reported to national regulators.

According to the proposed rule, a covered US person will be required to provide quarterly reports to BIS if the US person “engages in, or plans, within six months, to engage in ‘applicable activities.’” “Applicable activities” include: “Conducting a...

A regulatory trigger calibrated to compute volume does not measure what it purports to measure, and it was designed around a snapshot of model architecture that the industry has already moved beyond.

Staff proposes adoption of Regulation 18450.12 to add language clarifying the circumstances under which disclosure is required in campaign advisements that have been created or modified using AI, as well as amendments to Regulation 18401 to make expl...

Overall, the push toward protecting the public from exposure to deepfakes in political advertising through greater transparency is well meaning, but also a concerning expansion of the government’s role in regulating political speech.

Inkling reports reasoning, agentic, factuality, chat, vision, audio, and safety benchmark results at effort=0.99.

However, it is important to differentiate regulating applications (which we need) vs. regulating the technology (which is ill-advised).