Debate intensifies over whether AI companies should fund their own regulatory review
1 Sep 24 9:15 AM · 2d ago · 2 articles · 6 posts · 5 sources · development 1 of 1
The high costs are driving renewed discussion about whether frontier labs should bear the financial burden of safety review rather than taxpayers. Some experts propose a government tax on AI companies to fund independent safety operations. Anthropic and OpenAI have indicated openness to greater federal oversight and potential industry funding, while Elon Musk and others advocate for industry self-review without government involvement.
“It also may intensify calls to have the frontier labs to shoulder the financial burden of reviewing the models, especially with spending set to only balloon as the technology grows more advanced”
The Washington SunNational Security Agency AI testing and oversight agencyTrump administration Federal executiveAnthropic Frontier AI labOpenAI Frontier AI lab
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- Classified Estimates Show the NSA Is Paying Billions to Test AI Models HN Frontpage · 1d ago
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first by The Decoder, 1d ago
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The 4th Amendment in practice, as really any law, cannot preemptively stop the bad practices of actors working in bad faith. It's remediative, as in, the evidence it collects at least in theory cannot be admitted as evidence in court. If you look at indictments, informations, any initial charging document, you'll see at least some if not a deluge…
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Millions estimated: NSA spends billions of US dollars on AI testing The NSA is testing the best AI models and will pay billions of US dollars for it in 2026. The US Congress had assumed this would cost a few million. https://www. heise.de/en/news/Millions-esti…
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Scoop: The National Security Agency is spending billions this year on testing AI models - far more than previously known Per a classified NSA estimate described by sources Compute costs for AI have exploded - including for taxpayers https://www.washingtonsun.com/ ...
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the NSA is spending billions on testing AI models. But the details are classified. We don't know what for, which models, safety standards, nothing — www.washingtonsun.com/technology/ c...
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I feel like any AI regulation passed wouldn't have enough teeth to rein in the NSA because not even the Fourth Amendment seems applicable to the agency. let's not forget the ex-post-facto legalization of mass wiretapping and surveillance [0] with both establishment political parties supporting it on 'national security' concerns [1]. whatever…
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Sources: the NSA told lawmakers it is spending billions this year to test AI models; proposals for a US AI regulatory body estimated costs of $20M-$40M per year (Jeff Stein/The Washington Sun) https://www. washingtonsun.com/technology/c lassified-estimates-nsa-paying-billions-to-test-ai-models http://www. techmeme.com/260924/p37#a26092 4p37
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Obviously. The amount of data they hold on the American public alone is massive. They can't possibly read it all, they need a system that can pull out "dangerous" people, and find dirt on whoever they want to target, and AI will happily do that, badly. I just hope they actually take the time to review what it gives them for accuracy so that they…
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NSA Paying Billions to Test AI Models https:// politicalwire.com/2026/09/24/n sa-paying-billions-to-test-ai-models/?ap=m
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I guess I would be more surprised if the headline said "turns out NSA dropped the ball on AI and haven't even fired up a single LLM instance yet".It's mostly about "testing" and "billions". But I am sure "testing" here is in quotes just like I wrote it. They are not going to get an itemized list unless it's coming from Snowden 2.0- We "tested AI"…
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I seem to recall a certain former NSA affiliated person speaking on the conjecture of NSA Full Capture from fiber optic taps at a HOPE conference many many years ago. The statements alluded to automated custom robotic “drive shufflers” for even the tape and drive libraries already in use at that time, and heavily implied that in some cases exotic…
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Because they are watching everything, or most of it anyway, it would be really funny to know what kind of stuff they *actually* care about... and all the massive long string of crap that is considered incredibly abhorrent but just doesn't make the mark...
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"Testing"? Sure, Jan.They would have to be incompetent if they were not using them both for security penetration as well as social engineering / election meddling as everyone else is.
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An underappreciated aspect of LLMs is how good they are at zero-shot classification. I'd expect this is extremely good at monitoring communications streams, particularly in foreign languages.
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What do they test? In general, I don't understand the whole "AI safety" stuff. What are the scenarios we need to be protected from and how is this going to be accomplished?
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The "it only counts as a search if we find something" reasoning out of the FISA courts is batshit insane, dodging the 4th Amendment like bullets in The Matrix.
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Does anyone here happen to know the ballpark number of how much the three letters agencies are currently paying OpenAI/antropic/who ever per year/month..?
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Previously it was a little reassuring to understand that the Eye of Sauron required some human analyst to actually look at your data.
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