The US Department of Trade renamed the AI Institute at the AI (Caisi) Standards and Innovation Center, transferring its concentration from general security to combating national security threats and preventing “burdensome and unnecessary regulations” abroad. Howard Lutnick Secretary of Trade announced a change On June 3, calling the agency in order to “assess and improve innovation in the US” and “ensuring us the dominance of international AI standards”.
The AI Safety Institute was announced in 2023 under the government of the former president Joe BidenPart of the global effort to create the best practices for the rule limiting the risk of the AI system. He signed a memorandum of arrangements with the main American AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic to access up-to-date models and suggest improvements before release. At the end of Biden’s term at the beginning of 2025, Issued a project of guidelines In order to manage the risk of AI, which included the utilize of systems for creating biological weapons or other clear threats to national security, but also more common categories of harmful content, such as children’s sexual material (CSAM).
Lutnicka’s statement says that the up-to-date institute “focuses on risk, such as cyber security, biological security and chemical weapons” in its assessment. It will also examine “malicious foreign influences resulting from the use of AI enemy systems”, which probably includes Deepseek, a Chinese immense language model that shook the American industry AI at the beginning of this year.