I'd looked forward to spending more time with Anthropic's Fable model today, but alas the government had other plans. As usual, Zvi has the most thoughtful, thorough commentary on things.
I am however taking the position that the implementation method chosen by the government, with no warning, was deeply terrible, even given our options with our current very terrible level of relevant state capacity, and reflects some combination of at least one of either malice or a deep misunderstanding by decision makers of how jailbreaks and cyber security work.
It makes me wonder if the answer is something like a Federal Reserve, but for AI. Certainly AI safety is a serious enough issue for government oversight, and too serious an issue for reactionary incompetence.
I know it's not a perfect analogy, but at the very least something with political independence, clear measures, and experts who actually understand what they're overseeing would do immense good. The Fed is one of America's best national government institutions that we have right now. It feels like a good watermark for AI regulation.