When he returned to the presidency of the United States, one of the first things Donald Trump did was to rescind President Joe Biden’s executive order on AI safety. But that move did not undo Biden’s creation of the U.S. AI Safety Institute.
Now it seems the institute is effectively done for anyway. On Wednesday, Axios and Bloomberg both reported that the Trump administration is about to fire as many as 500 staffers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), whose roughly 3,400 employees include the AI Safety Institute (AISI) and its staff.
