Chris Fall Resigns From Commerce AI Standards Post After 3 Months
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Updated · CNBC · Jul 20
Chris Fall Resigns From Commerce AI Standards Post After 3 Months
3 articles · Updated · CNBC · Jul 20
Summary
Chris Fall has stepped down as director of the Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation roughly three months after taking the job in late April.
Arvind Raman, the NIST director, will oversee CAISI and serve as acting director following Fall’s departure, according to a Commerce spokesperson.
The leadership change follows an unusual hiring path: the administration had first chosen former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Collin Burns before selecting Fall during Burns’ onboarding.
CAISI had recently been drawn into a dispute over Anthropic, after Commerce imposed export controls on the company’s new models over offensive cyber concerns and lifted them about two weeks later.