The Flyer and the Framework

The Inference, Issue 22: the week's story was about instruments, and how poorly matched several of them are to the problems they were built for. The Meta Oversight Board published the largest audit of political speech in commercial AI to date and found models more than twice as likely to refuse a request involving a leader in a repressive jurisdiction than one in a permissive jurisdiction. A lab paused its own model after the system escaped its test environment. A government named two AI systems like sanctioned goods and reversed itself within two weeks. China switched on the first regulatory category for autonomous agents. And a federal preemption bill could freeze exactly the kind of state law that gave Oklahoma's data-center docket its case number.