Huge exemptions archived by the Trump administration and the so -called government department may appear this week at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a non -regulatory agency responsible for establishing reference points that provide everything from all of them Cosmetic products Quantum computers are secure and reliable.
According to several current and former employees of Nist, the agency has been preparing for cuts since President Donald Trump took office last month and ordered the billionaire Elon Musk and Dog to reduce expenditure on the federal government. Last week, fears were increased when some Nist workers witnessed a handful of people they considered to be associated with dog inside the 225 building, which houses the Nist Information Laboratory in Gaithersburg, Maryland, according to many people informed about observations. One of the people said that Doge employees were looking for access to IT NIST systems.
Shortly after the alleged visit, Nist Leadership told employees that Doge employees are currently not in the campus, but according to the same people, office space and technology were delivered to them.
On Wednesday, Axios AND Bloomberg He informed that Nist began to inform some employees that they could soon be released. According to reports, about 500 last employees who are still in a trial state and can be easier to let go. Three sources inform Wired that cuts probably influenced the praise of technical experts in managerial positions, including three laboratory directors who have been promoted over the past year. One person acquainted with the agency tells Wired that official dismissal notifications can come on Friday.
The White House and the Nist spokesman, which is part of the trade department, has not yet refunded the applications for commentary.
One of the NIST teams, which was afraid of cuts because of the number of trial workers, is the American Institute of AI Safety Institute (Aisi), which was created after the execution of the executive ordinance of the former president Joe Biden in AI published in October 2023. tilted The order shortly after taking office last month, describing it as “a barrier to American leadership in artificial intelligence.”
AI Safety Institute and its about two dozen employees work closely with AI companies, including rivals to start XAI, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, to understand and test the possibilities of their most powerful models. Musk was an early investor at Openai and is currently suing the startup to decide to go from a non-profit organization to a profit-oriented corporation.
The inaugural director of AISI, Elizabeth Kelly, announced She left her role at the beginning of this month. In recent weeks, several other eminent NIST leaders have passed on AI, including Reva Schwartz, who managed the assessment of the risk and effects of AI, and Elham Tabassi, the main adviser of AI Nist. Kelly and Schwartz refused to comment. Tabassi did not answer the request for comment.
US Vice President JD Vance recently signaled the intention of the fresh AI Security Deportization Administration at the top of the AI shares, the main international meeting in Paris last week, that Aisi and other government employees were government not invited According to three people who know this matter. “I’m not here this morning to talk about AI safety,” Vance said in his first significant speech as a vice president. “I am here to talk about AI’s possibilities.”