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The rise of powerful AI will be either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity. We do not yet know which."

—Stephen Hawking

U.S. Expands AI systems Oversight Through New Industry Agreements

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, houses CAISI, the federal body now leading pre-deployment testing of frontier AI models from Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI.

The Center for AI Standards and Innovation has signed agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI for pre-deployment access to frontier AI models — in some cases with safety guardrails removed. The deals mark a shift toward embedding federal researchers inside the development cycle of commercial AI, rather than relying on regulation alone.