Our model legislation does allow the executive to update the technical specifics as the technology advances.
The very first text in the section on rulemaking authority is “The Administrator shall have full power to promulgate rules to carry out this Act in accordance with section 553 of title 5, United States Code. This includes the power to update or modify any of the technical thresholds in Section 3(s) of this Act (including but not limited to the definitions of “high-compute AI developer,” “high-performance AI chip,” and “major AI hardware cluster”) to ensure that these definitions will continue to adequately protect against major security risks despite changes in the technical landscape such as improvements in algorithmic efficiency.” This is on page 12 of our bill.
I’m not sure how we could make this clearer, and I think it’s unreasonable to attack the model legislation for not having this feature, because it very much does have this feature.
Our model legislation does allow the executive to update the technical specifics as the technology advances.
The very first text in the section on rulemaking authority is “The Administrator shall have full power to promulgate rules to carry out this Act in accordance with section 553 of title 5, United States Code. This includes the power to update or modify any of the technical thresholds in Section 3(s) of this Act (including but not limited to the definitions of “high-compute AI developer,” “high-performance AI chip,” and “major AI hardware cluster”) to ensure that these definitions will continue to adequately protect against major security risks despite changes in the technical landscape such as improvements in algorithmic efficiency.” This is on page 12 of our bill.
I’m not sure how we could make this clearer, and I think it’s unreasonable to attack the model legislation for not having this feature, because it very much does have this feature.