Samuel Hammond

The federal government is really the only entity powerful enough to be a real check on these companies. If they become joined at the hip, that check goes away. It can easily become a form of regulatory capture.

For too long, the United States has borne the economic and political costs of semiconductor export controls while leaving room for foreign suppliers to free ride, backfill, or slow-roll their alignment. The MATCH Act creates a simple rule: either our...

Either our allies match our controls on the most important tools and components for advanced semiconductors, or the United States closes the loopholes itself.

Even if taking partial ownership of frontier AI companies can make sense on paper, in practice it's a recipe for political favoritism and corruption.

The Chip Security Act (CSA) is a bipartisan bill that would require high-end AI chips to have the capability to verify their location before being exported. [...] With the confidence that sensitive exports are going to their intended foreign buyers, ...

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.

LLM scaling laws also suggest the computing resources required to train large models are a reasonable proxy for model power and generality. Consistent with our argument for refining the definition of AI systems, the NTIA should thus consider defining...