Inside the Biden Administration’s Unpublished Report on AI Safety

Inside the Biden Administration’s Unpublished Report on AI Safety

The US government conducted a groundbreaking study on frontier models—and never published the results.

NIST’s Unpublished AI Risk Study Remains Shelved Amid Administrative Change

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) completed a report on the safety of the advanced AI models near the end of the Joe Biden administration, but the document was not published following the transition to the Donald Trump administration. Although the report was designed to assist organizations in evaluating their AI systems, it was among several NIST-authored AI documents withheld from release due to potential conflicts with…

NIST Shelves AI Vulnerability Report Amid Trump Policy Shift

In the waning days of the Biden administration, a pivotal exercise in artificial intelligence safety unfolded behind closed doors, revealing vulnerabilities in cutting-edge AI systems that could reshape how the tech industry approaches risk management. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), under the Commerce Department, orchestrated a red-teaming event in October 2024, where dozens of AI researchers stress-tested frontier mo…

Sources: NIST withheld publishing an AI safety report and several other AI documents at the end of Biden's term to avoid clashing with the Trump administration

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