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The head of the Trump administration's AI safety agency CAISI has resigned after three months in the role, leaving the body without a permanent director.
Arvind Raman, director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, will serve as acting director, a spokesperson confirmed.
How standards bodies work and why this matters Government AI safety oversight is not primarily a policy function.
The mechanism works like this: an executive-level directive that says "AI should be safe" has no operational meaning until a body like CAISI translates it into specific evaluation criteria and procurement guidance that agencies and vendors can act on.
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