David Robusto
Associate Director of Policy Strategy
Former Emerging Technology Analyst at Gates Ventures
Authored Insights
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Transparency in Frontier AI
ARI ranks seven big-name AI models on measures of transparency. The study explores transparency in four primary areas, including user-facing documentation, risk and safety, technical transparency, and evaluation and impact. The research uses 21 metrics to rank models in each of the four areas.
Read Full Analysis →Policy Recommendations: Full Funding for NIST and AI Incident Reporting
Today, ARI is releasing two new policy memos for the Trump administration and the 119th Congress as they develop their AI policy priorities. Implementing the memos’ primary recommendations – fulfi...
Read Full Analysis →Explainer: Trump’s Week One Actions on AI, What’s Affected, and What Comes Next?
President Trump’s first round of executive orders included a dramatic shift in U.S. AI policy. On his first day in office, Trump repealed the cornerstone of former President Biden’s AI policy, EO ...
Read Full Analysis →Star-Spangled AI: OpenAI’s Blueprint for Progress and Politics
At the end of December, my colleague Iskandar Haykel and I wrote a blog post recapping three major trends in the AI industry in 2024, one of which was that frontier AI labs are backing away from their...
Read Full Analysis →The Murky State of Frontier AI Transparency
Medical AI “scribes” are now documenting over 1.3 million physician-patient encounters each month, with investment doubling to $800 million in 2024 alone. These AI assistants promise to re...
Read Full Analysis →2024 AI Recap: Three Trends in AI This Year
Moving Away from Big Models, Embracing the Military, and Fighting Regulation
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