Mariam Baksh

2 weeks ago | insideaipolicy.com | Mariam Baksh

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has added to the ongoing drama surrounding a multi-state AI policymaking campaign with a letter to the Future of Privacy Forum that seeks to tag the group as anything but a “neutral facilitator” in coordinating related efforts. “It appears FPF is attempting to hide its work in support of former President Biden’s AI Executive Order,” reads an April 7 letter the Senate Commerce Committee chairman addressed to Jules Polonetsky, the group’s CEO. Up until Feb....

2 weeks ago | insideaipolicy.com | Mariam Baksh

The government should establish a venue akin to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s AI Safety Institute for testing artificial intelligence models in a classified setting, Eric Schmidt told lawmakers during a hearing on the future of the technology that largely focused on a need to counter China’s advances in the field.

2 weeks ago | insideaipolicy.com | Mariam Baksh

Witnesses at a House Science Committee hearing on the implications of China’s artificial intelligence advances argued lawmakers are wrong to take comfort in the idea that developers of the DeepSeek AI model were only successful because they were copying off the work of U.S. companies. “DeepSeek reportedly distilled their models from OpenAI's systems, demonstrating that Chinese AI development remains reliant on our innovations,” Rep.

2 weeks ago | insideaipolicy.com | Mariam Baksh

A high-profile organization’s assessments of AI models is insufficient for comparing responsibility across developers, Stanford University researchers said in their annual report on the status of the industry and policies governing it. “Third-party evaluators like Gryphon, Apollo Research, and METR assess only select models, and their findings cannot be widely validated by the broader AI community,” reads the 2025 AI Index released April 7 by Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI.

2 weeks ago | insideaipolicy.com | Mariam Baksh

Getting companies to produce and use more computer chips from within the United States would require increasing the market for artificial intelligence and similar technologies across the globe, the Semiconductor Industry Association said in comments to the Office of Management and Budget, calling for an extension of CHIPS and Science Act investments.