Mandate reporting of AI training runs above 10²⁶ FLOPs to a designated national or international authority

If policymakers are worried about the most advanced systems, then oversight should focus on the highest-capability end of the stack. Commerce already moved in this direction when BIS proposed reporting requirements for advanced AI models and large co...

Congress must now codify the White House's EO with legislative action. Lawmakers need to create a legal framework that makes federal government review of advanced AI models mandatory. [...] These companies need oversight and cannot be trusted to do t...

We commend the BIS rule’s inclusion of a provision which requires the reporting [...] computing power greater than 10^{26} integer or floating-point operations.

submit a report to the Secretary of Commerce [...] requires a quantity of computing power greater than 10^{26} integer or floating-point operations.

to train models beyond a sufficiently high threshold of compute should be required to pre-register training runs [...] a threshold of 10^26 FLOPs would likely suffice.

we propose that AI developers pre-register large training runs [...] within their home country’s government [...] plausible bar for now would be 10^26 FLOP or higher.

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...

On September 11, 2024, the Department of Commerce (DOC), Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a proposed rule that would place an ongoing reporting requirement for entities developing, acquiring, or possessing advanced artificial intelligence...

Establishing a pre-release review or licensing regime for AI companies would grant the government, particularly the executive branch, significant control over AI technologies that could hinder innovation or control expression. [...] Such an approach ...

Mandated transparency may also not actually improve consumer education around their privacy choices. First, many consumers may grow fatigued and frustrated with the constant pop ups and consents as they do with current cookie pop ups. Second, a gover...

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

The question that people are debating is whether it makes sense to regulate research and development of AI. And I don't think it does.