Shashank Joshi
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204 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Aug
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The Trump administration assumed office, railing against the regulation of AI.
What's happened in the last couple of months is a dramatic reversal, a stance in which leading AI models are now under de facto, in some cases, pretty draconian regulation.
Well, fundamentally, Jason, it's that the models have got very good.
You recall the release of Mythos, the model by Anthropic that turned out to have extremely good cyber capabilities, including being able to find and exploit vulnerabilities in software, some of which had been undiscovered for years and years.
And so the administration was pretty worried about this, as I think any government would have been, and said, hang on a minute, you can't release this freely.
We're going to release this on a very careful basis.
There was a public version of the model called Fable 5 that was then put out.
It was pretty carefully restricted, but there was an alleged way to get around some of its safeguards.
And that prompted, in a kind of panic, the administration to say, you have to now shut down everything.
We've also seen in recent weeks OpenAI, which makes the chat GPT series of models, release another model called GPT-5.6 or SOL, a particularly capable variant of that.
And they have not been allowed to freely release it.
Basically, the government has given them permission to give it to a relatively modest number of trusted partners.
Well, there was an executive order on June 2nd, and it was a way of trying to impose some sense of governance of AI.
And it said, look, we should have a framework in which private companies can voluntarily share their most advanced models with the government and discuss the risks.
That was kind of happening anyway, right?
We know that OpenAI was doing that.
We know that Anthropic was doing it.
But the interesting thing about that order is that it explicitly says nothing should be a formal licensing regime.
This is not a compulsory or mandatory system for companies to follow because there are a lot of people in the Trump administration who basically think this should be unshackled to maximize innovation at a time when investment in AI infrastructure like data centers is really holding up some parts of the American economy.
effectively, we have a de facto licensing regime in place that is described as voluntary.
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