Mitchell Kominsky

vp of gov affairs @americans4ri, founder @futurelandvc, frm. senior gov official @usdot, @senaterpc, @houseoversight

[Chip Roy @chiproytx]

Federal pre-emption on AI is a non-starter.

[Americans for Responsible Innovation @americans4ri]

Great news for America's compute edge.

[Mitchell Kominsky @MitchKominsky]

Excellent to see @SenatorTimScott’s leadership to keep America’s distinct advantages in the AI race. A markup on export control bills by Senate Banking would likely result in overwhelming bipartisan support - and bolster both US economic growth and national security.

[Diego Areas Munhoz @Dareasmunhoz]

NEWS in AM: Senate Banking considering marking up export control bills to potentially include them in NDAA

This would be a big hawks win as it’d add momentum to these bills. Banking had been mostly silent on this as Mast in the House has been moving quickly

W/@BrendanPedersen

[Mitchell Kominsky @MitchKominsky]

Great piece by @egastfriend

[Eric Gastfriend @egastfriend]

My new Op-Ed in The Well News: The opioid epidemic has important lessons for AI regulation, that American society has not fully grasped. A thread 🧵
https://t.co/54KNzA1K1L

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Preempting states re: AI without enacting a sensible federal framework is just an amnesty for Big Tech.

Combined with a potential de facto bailout of OpenAI, it represents bad policy and even worse politics.

[Brad Carson @bradrcarson]

Today, Anthropic released its Advanced AI Framework (link in next post). I wanted to offer my take on the document, as a lot of people and several reporters have asked for my assessment.

In sum, on the questions that matter most to ARI, Anthropic made the right calls and pushed the debate forward productively. Let me walk through what we see as necessary parts of a frontier AI regulation and compare to the Anthropic plan.

Safety plans need to be evaluated by an independent entity, which could be an IVO but could also (more likely in at least the early days) be the government itself. This is in the Anthropic plan. ✅

The review by the independent entity must be more than a compliance exercise that just checks if the test the lab wrote and graded was in fact written and graded; it must be an independent substantive assessment of safety. This is in the Anthropic plan. ✅

The government must have the ability to prevent release of dangerous models. This is in the Anthropic plan. ✅

The government must have the ability to recall models whose dangerous capabilities are revealed only after deployment. This is Anthropic's plan. ✅

And very significantly, the preemption language offered up by Anthropic for consideratoin explicitly limits federal displacement to the specific frontier governance functions Congress has chosen to occupy — catastrophic risk testing, evaluator licensing, closely related reporting. Outside those functions, federal law cannot occupy the field, cannot preempt by implication, and cannot displace state statutory or common-law claims. States keep their authority over civil rights, child safety, labor, consumer protection, and tort law. Ambiguity is resolved in favor of state authority, not federal displacement. ✅

Just as importantly, the framework says that federal compliance does not create immunity, a safe harbor, or a presumption against liability under state law. That one sentence closes a door that opponents of accountability have been trying to open for years. ✅

I'm often asked, "What kind of preemption language would you ever support at ARI?" The language that is in the Anthropic proposal is what we like if preemption is insisted upon: narrow in fact, clear about limits, comprehensive in its instructions to courts about what is still permissible at the state level (basically everything from child safety to labor issues to CSAM screening to training data transparency and more) except the specified regulation of cyber, bio, loss of control for a few models). This is the kind of preemption language that should be in, say, the Trahan-Obernolte bill or any other frontier AI law, if any state laws are to be preempted. I hope Congress takes note.

The plan has more about cybersecurity and biosecurity, which I'll comment more on later. But wanted to offer this quick take on how I evaluate the safety provisions and the preemption language.

[Janet Egan @janet_e_egan]

CAISI has reportedly been directed to stop publishing public model assessments as the new AI EO gets implemented.

Natsec engagement on AI is essential. But pulling CAISI's evals from public view doesn't make the field more secure. It just means fewer eyes on the science when we need more.

Openness and natsec don't have to be in tension here. We should be doing both.

[Director Michael Kratsios @mkratsios47]

Today, @POTUS signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum on AI in the national security enterprise. The men and women who defend our nation deserve the best, most secure, and most reliable AI in the world, and our citizens deserve to know it is handled responsibly with the care and seriousness they expect.

The NSPM accelerates AI adoption from multiple vendors to prevent single points of failure, updates @DeptofWar’s guidance on autonomy in weapons systems to keep pace with the frontier, and ensures no entity can disable or degrade an AI system our warfighters depend on without prior approval.

Under @POTUS’s leadership, we are putting our AI dominance to work to defend the American people.

[Mitchell Kominsky @MitchKominsky]

Excellent work by @realDonaldTrump, @mkratsios47 and the admin’s national security team and IC in continuing to develop AI policy

[Americans for Responsible Innovation @americans4ri]

Strong moves by the White House this afternoon updating AI policies on national security and intelligence.

Today's memo addresses technical talent, secure compute, testing and eval infrastructure, and guidance for autonomous weapons.

Our statement:
https://t.co/xavYoe1BLn

[Americans for Responsible Innovation @americans4ri]

Strong moves by the White House this afternoon updating AI policies on national security and intelligence.

Today's memo addresses technical talent, secure compute, testing and eval infrastructure, and guidance for autonomous weapons.

Our statement:
https://t.co/xavYoe1BLn

[Director Michael Kratsios @mkratsios47]

Today @POTUS signed an EO that keeps America leading in AI while putting frontier AI capabilities to work strengthening our cyber defenses.

AI systems are now the most powerful tools we have ever had to harden our cyber infrastructure and stay ahead of adversaries. It is a real blessing that these capabilities are being developed by American industry, and not by those who would use them against us.
https://t.co/tsXXVuMWZ9

[Shakeel @ShakeelHashim]

This new EO says:

- government will evaluate models for advanced cyber capabilities (under a voluntary framework)

- if the government finds a model DOES have advanced cyber capabilities, goverment will get exclusive access to the model for up to 30 days

This would have been unimaginable even six months ago.

[Diego Areas Munhoz @Dareasmunhoz]

NEWS: TRUMP has signed the AI EO https://t.co/8b6S3Bqa17

[Brad Carson @bradrcarson]

Yes, yes, yes, JD Vance. A human should be in the loop for lethal autonomous weapons.

[Samuel Hammond 🦉 @hamandcheese]

Struggling to see how a voluntary program to expedite AI cyber defenses to critical infrastructure helps China or "slows down" AI progress.

[Americans for Responsible Innovation @americans4ri]

NEW: The Senate has unanimously passed the Stop Stealing Our Chips Act.

This bill is an important step towards strengthening export control enforcement in face of growing smuggling operations. America must retain its compute advantage.

Our statement: https://t.co/Uj0L6S38mk

[Americans for Responsible Innovation @americans4ri]

This Thursday on the Hill: a panel on U.S. compute export controls, national security, and the AI race.

With @DavidFeith (@HudsonInstitute), @janet_e_egan (@CNASdc), @KhanSaifM (@InstituteforProgress). Moderated by ARI's @MitchKominsky.

RSVP: https://t.co/KlGzJSsXMf

[Brad Carson @bradrcarson]

Promising!

[Mitchell Kominsky @MitchKominsky]

Excited to moderate this discussion. Come join to learn more about AI and policy related to semiconductors and export controls!

[Americans for Responsible Innovation @americans4ri]

Compute export controls are reshaping the global AI race.

Join ARI on May 21 at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center for a panel with @MarkBeall (@AIpolicynetwork), @janet_e_egan (@CNASdc), and @KhanSaifM (@IFP). Moderated by ARI's @MitchKominsky.

RSVP: https://t.co/KlGzJSspWH

[Mitchell Kominsky @MitchKominsky]

Excited to moderate this discussion with excellent panelists!

[Americans for Responsible Innovation @americans4ri]

AI is reshaping global power. Export controls are the policy lever.

Join @MarkBeall, @janet_e_egan, & @KhanSaifM for a panel on compute, security, and the AI race. Moderated by ARI's @MitchKominsky.

May 21, 2:30 PM, Capitol Visitor Center. Register now: https://t.co/KlGzJSspWH