The Washington Post reported that President Donald Trump named David Sacks and Emil Michael, the Pentagon’s chief technology officer, to his Super Intelligence Force advisory panel on 4 October. Both have rejected calls for an industry-wide AI slowdown. Michael said in September that calls to prevent extreme AI harm promoted “extinction, death-cult-like philosophies”.
An accord signed by Trump and AI executives has prompted a dispute over who should audit companies’ systems. Sacks said on his All-In podcast that auditors “should be professional auditors, not these NGOs”. He also argued that the nonprofit METR was too close to Anthropic to be independent. Anthropic subsequently said it would work with Accenture to build a team of outside evaluators.
Nathan Leamer, director of Build American AI, said he has been briefing congressional staff about effective altruism, which he described as contrary to his Christian values.
On the All-In podcast, Chamath Palihapitiya said his start-up 8090 was building audit infrastructure for EY and planned to offer it more widely. EY said it was working with 8090 to develop capabilities for greater visibility, traceability and human accountability in consequential AI-enabled decisions and workflows.
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