Bores repeatedly addressed concerns about regulatory burden by saying that frontier AI developers’ own memos said this bill would add 1 full time employee, and so wasn’t that burdensome.
I’d be surprised if this was true and very surprised if it’s what frontier developers said even if it was true, given their incentives. I’m waiting to hear back on the memo
As far as I can tell, Bores never said that frontier AI developers’ own memos said this; rather, it was that an opposition memo said this. Bores mentions this memo a few times during the 90 minutes; here’s a typical quote:
I’ll note that what came in as an opposition memo said that they estimated that this would require one full-time employee to comply with.
I believe that this is the memo that Bores was talking about. It was written by Will Rinehart of the American Entreprise Institute, which opposed the bill.
Thanks. It was ambiguous who Bores meant by “they” in the Q+A but now that I’ve seen the memo I think you’re right. I had a request in to Bores office but didn’t hear back until after publication. AFAICT this is written by some guy, in which case it seems like Bores gives it too much weight.
As far as I can tell, Bores never said that frontier AI developers’ own memos said this; rather, it was that an opposition memo said this. Bores mentions this memo a few times during the 90 minutes; here’s a typical quote:
I believe that this is the memo that Bores was talking about. It was written by Will Rinehart of the American Entreprise Institute, which opposed the bill.
Thanks. It was ambiguous who Bores meant by “they” in the Q+A but now that I’ve seen the memo I think you’re right. I had a request in to Bores office but didn’t hear back until after publication. AFAICT this is written by some guy, in which case it seems like Bores gives it too much weight.