Nathaniel Whittemore

It's not a huge mistake, but a small to medium-sized one.

But I am fairly confident this is a mistake nonetheless.

And again, while Sacks says this isn't a step to more, the more safety-minded certainly see this as a crack in the Overton window that they can pry open.

Right-wing pundit Steve Bannon said, "...for the first time it's on a piece of paper, a structure and a process.

That process is still pretty ill-defined.

It doesn't meet our requirements.

But as I tell people, we're going to eat the elephant one bite at a time.

I strongly believe we're heading towards mandatory within the next couple of months.

We intend to ramp up the pressure campaign."

and showing how weird AI makes different political bedfellows, Bernie Sanders seems to want the same thing as Steve Bannon, saying, After calling efforts to regulate AI foolish, Trump finally acknowledged AI poses a real threat.

That's the good news.

The bad news?

His executive order is voluntary and does almost nothing to protect Americans.

Congress must act.

Ultimately, the reason that everyone is speculating around what the implications are is that the order itself doesn't do all that much.

The AI labs already have agreements in place to share new models with the government ahead of release.

David Remler from the Center for a New American Security said that the order, quote, effectively formalizes what has already been happening between the US government and the leading AI companies.

And so speculation about what comes next is the natural next place to go.

Certainly, there will be a lot to watch here, but for now, we actually do still have a few more headlines.

One of them from the very project which got this whole ball rolling, which is Project Glasswing, the specific way, of course, that Anthropic is releasing their Mythos model.