Your Company Doesn’t Need an AI Strategy

**Nathaniel Whittemore** (0:00)
Today on the AI Daily Brief, you don't need an AI strategy, you need an AI learning system. Before that on the headlines, might we finally be heading for resolution between the White House and Anthropic? The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI.
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Might we actually be heading into the end of the week with some good news on the horizon? New reports suggest that talks between the White House and Anthropic are actually moving forward in something of a positive direction. Specifically, Politico reports that the talks have shifted towards designing a framework to assess the severity of security flaws in AI models.
By way of background, heading into the week, Anthropic's position was that the Fable jailbreak wasn't a serious issue, and that the administration was overreacting based on a misunderstanding. It was clear from the reporting that the administration did not like this disposition. First of all, from a technical perspective, they wanted Anthropic to quote-unquote fix the jailbreak and wasn't willing to budge on that. But second, they didn't like the attitude which they saw as nonchalance, colored by more than a bit of hypocrisy as well, given Anthropic's brand as the safety-focused AI lab. Now, however, writes Politico, the negotiations between Anthropic and the administration reflect an understanding that no AI model can be completely immune to hacking, part of Anthropic's initial defense of its model, and that government should lay out the rules for companies to measure security risks by.
Politico adds that although the export controls haven't been lifted at this stage, the shift towards setting technical standards is a sign that talks are progressing. As recently as a couple of days ago, the tone was very different, with the White House seemingly digging its heels in, based, it seems, on a lack of technical understanding. There has also been mounting pressure on the government to find a way to back down. Throughout the week, this type of use of export controls has been criticized by everyone from security experts to business leaders to, of course, the AI community. In another story, Politico argued that the Fable ban might not even be legal. They note that the Commerce Department has yet to file the proper paperwork to support the use of export controls, with former Commerce Department official Kevin Wolf suggesting the heavy-handed approach wouldn't scale. If this is going to be their position going forward with every other model or every other data center, that will be a dramatic shift. And as for the specific case of blocking foreign nationals from logging into a cloud service, Wolf added, I don't know what the legal authority is for that. Speaking to The Verge, Andrew Reddy, a professor of public policy at UC Berkeley, said that this was an unsettled area of law to say the least. In some ways, he said, I think this episode makes clear the unsustainability of the existing governance regime. If creating models that are impossible to jailbreak becomes the de facto standard for the United States, then it will have no AI models.