AI Safety Newsletter

Also, Anthropic Removes a Core Safety Commitment.
Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required.
In this edition, we discuss the conflicts between Anthropic and the Department of War and Anthropic's recent removal of a core safety commitment.
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Pentagon Declares Anthropic a Supply Chain Risk to National Security
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (left) and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (right) Thursday, March 5th, the US Department of War (DoW) announced that Anthropic is designated a “supply chain risk,” meaning that Anthropic products cannot be used by the DoW or in any defense contracts. This comes after several weeks of tensions between the two organizations over whether Anthropic models would be used for [...]
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Outline:
(00:59) Pentagon Declares Anthropic a Supply Chain Risk to National Security
(05:51) Anthropic Drops Core Safety Commitment
(07:22) Opportunity for Experienced Researchers: AI and Society Fellowship
(07:58) In Other News
(08:02) Government
(09:07) Industry
(10:17) Civil Society
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First published:

March 13th, 2026


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Plus: The Pentagon Accelerates AI and GPT-5.2 solves open mathematics problems..
Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required.
In this edition, we discuss the AI agent social network Moltbook, Pentagon's new “AI-First” strategy, and recent math breakthroughs powered by LLMs.
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Other opportunities at CAIS include: Research Engineer, Research Scientist, Director of Development, Special Projects Associate, and Special Projects Manager. If you’re interested in working on reducing AI risk alongside a talented, mission-driven team, consider applying!
Moltbook Sparks Safety Concerns
Screencapture from Moltbook's home page. Source. Moltbook is a new social network for AI agents. From nearly the moment it went live, human observers have noted numerous troubling patterns in what's being posted.
How Moltbook works. Moltbook is a Reddit-style social network built on a framework that lets personal AI assistants run locally and accept tasks via messaging platforms. Agents check Moltbook regularly (i.e., every [...]
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Outline:
(01:04) Moltbook Sparks Safety Concerns
(05:10) Pentagon Mandates AI-First Strategy
(07:59) AI Solves Open Math Problems
(10:41) In Other News
(10:45) Government
(11:31) Industry
(13:06) Civil Society
(14:52) Discussion about this post
(14:56) Ready for more?
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First published:

February 2nd, 2026


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https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/ai-safety-newsletter-68-moltbook

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Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required..
Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required.
In this edition we discuss President Trump's executive order targeting state AI laws, Nvidia's approval to sell China high-end accelerators, and new frontier models from OpenAI and DeepSeek.
Listen to the AI Safety Newsletter for free on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
Executive Order Blocks State AI Laws
U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order aimed at halting state efforts to regulate AI. The order, which differs from a version leaked last month, leverages federal funding and enforcement to evaluate, challenge, and limit state laws. The order caps off a year in which several ambitious state AI proposals were either watered down or vetoed outright.
A push for regulatory uniformity. The order aims to reduce regulatory friction for companies by eliminating the variety of state-level regimes and limit the power of states at impacting commerce beyond their own borders. It calls for replacing them with a single, unspecified, federal framework.
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Outline:
(00:34) Executive Order Blocks State AI Laws
(03:53) US Permits Nvidia to Sell H200s to China
(06:11) ChatGPT-5.2 and DeepSeek-v3.2 Arrive
(08:52) In Other News
(08:55) Industry
(09:42) Civil Society
(10:26) Government
(11:35) Discussion about this post
(11:39) Ready for more?
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First published:

December 17th, 2025


Source:

https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/ai-safety-newsletter-67-trumps-preemption

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Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required..
Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required.
In this edition we discuss President Trump's executive order targeting state AI laws, Nvidia's approval to sell China high-end accelerators, and new frontier models from OpenAI and DeepSeek.
Listen to the AI Safety Newsletter for free on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
Executive Order Blocks State AI Laws
U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order aimed at halting state efforts to regulate AI. The order, which differs from a version leaked last month, leverages federal funding and enforcement to evaluate, challenge, and limit state laws. The order caps off a year in which several ambitious state AI proposals were either watered down or vetoed outright.
A push for regulatory uniformity. The order aims to reduce regulatory friction for companies by eliminating the variety of state-level regimes and limit the power of states at impacting commerce beyond their own borders. It calls for replacing them with a single, unspecified, federal framework.
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Outline:
(00:34) Executive Order Blocks State AI Laws
(03:42) US Permits Nvidia to Sell H200s to China
(06:00) ChatGPT-5.2 and DeepSeek-v3.2 Arrive
(08:23) In Other News
(08:27) Industry
(09:13) Civil Society
(09:58) Government
(11:07) Discussion about this post
(11:11) Ready for more?
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First published:

December 17th, 2025


Source:

https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/ai-safety-newsletter-67-trumps-preemption

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Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required..
Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required.
In this edition we discuss the new AI Dashboard, recent frontier models from Google and Anthropic, and a revived push to preempt state AI regulations.
Listen to the AI Safety Newsletter for free on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
CAIS Releases the AI Dashboard for Frontier Performance
CAIS launched its AI Dashboard, which evaluates frontier AI systems on capability and safety benchmarks. The dashboard also tracks the industry's overall progression toward broader milestones such as AGI, automation of remote labor, and full self-driving.
How the dashboard works. The AI Dashboard features three leaderboards—one for text, one for vision, and one for risks—where frontier models are ranked according to their average score across a battery of benchmarks. Because CAIS evaluates models directly across a wide range of tasks, the dashboard provides apples-to-apples comparisons of how different frontier models perform on the same set of evaluations and safety-relevant behaviors.
Ranking frontier models for [...]
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Outline:
(00:33) CAIS Releases the AI Dashboard for Frontier Performance
(04:05) Politicians Revive Push for Moratorium on State AI Laws
(06:39) Gemini 3 Pro and Claude Opus 4.5 Arrive
(09:17) In Other News
(09:20) Government
(10:15) Industry
(11:03) Civil Society
(12:00) Discussion about this post
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First published:

December 2nd, 2025


Source:

https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/ai-safety-newsletter-66-aisn-66-evaluating

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