Trump's Super Intelligence Force repositions federal AI policy

FAI's @hamandcheese argues that Trump's new Super Intelligence Force ends the David Sacks era of AI policy, putting national security at the center of AI policy: "If you read the charter, it’s a very interesting document. It’s Scott Kupor, Andrew Ferguson, the head of the FTC, Emil Michael, and Jay Clayton is leading the whole thing. He’s the Director of National Intelligence." "That right there tells you one thing, which is this is no longer the David Sacks era. The archetype of treating AI policy as a thing for venture capitalists, and less of a national security issue." "This is now squarely within the realm of the national security state and the Defense Department." "The other weird thing about the charter is everyone reports up to Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff. It’s…

FAI's @hamandcheese says Washington's Super Intelligence Force can't afford to wait 120 days when recursive AI self-improvement could arrive as early as 2027: "I hope that they are not just using the whole 120 days, ’cause also in the news today was Jack Clark revising his timeline to fully automated AI R&D, recursive self-improvement, from like mid ‘28 to like Q1 ‘27." "I am a mere economist. I try to be a good Bayesian and defer to people who are closer to the bare metal. And there’s a striking convergence in people’s timelines. OpenAI talks about having their automated AI researcher by mid next year." "Do we go foom? Is it a 2 to 3X speed up? Even if it fizzles, it’s still a step change in the pace of acceleration. And so 120 days is like a lifetime. We need to start acting now, and…

FAI's @hamandcheese argues that OpenAI and Anthropic should be allowed to coordinate in ways normally prohibited by antitrust law to prepare for superintelligence: "When you’ve crossed into these thresholds of recursive self-improvement, there’s no natural checkpoint, no natural milestone where you can pull back and take a look at the model, evaluate whether you can still control it." "Real coordination is going to be needed above and beyond just, do we have auditors in our company? And real antitrust protections are probably the only thing that will enable it. On the populist right, they hear antitrust protections for big tech and they think Section 230. This is not what I have in mind." "Under the Defense Production Act, 708 agreements are industry consortia. We just finalized one with…