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MIT Technology Review reports that Chinese AI model progress has triggered public infighting among current and former Trump AI advisors, including AI czar David Sacks, directed at leading US AI companies. The piece covers the political and strategic tensions within the US AI policy establishment over how to respond to Chinese competition. This signals meaningful fractures in the US government's approach to AI industrial policy at a critical moment in the US-China AI race.
Andrew Ng analyzes a new White House executive order on AI, characterizing it as a reasonable compromise between promoting AI development and addressing cybersecurity concerns. The order was partly motivated by Anthropic's Mythos system, which demonstrated automated vulnerability detection in code. Ng credits advisors David Sachs and Sriram Krishnan for keeping the order from being overly burdensome, while warning that legitimate cybersecurity risks now give lobbyists a stronger tool to push for excessive regulation. He argues that governments lacking technical judgment should err toward restraint rather than overregulation.