SCOOP: Head of Federal AI Safety Org Resigns

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Dr. Chris Fall, the director of the Commerce Department’s safety-centered artificial intelligence organization, has resigned, two sources familiar with the matter told the Daily Signal.

Fall, who served in the first Trump administration at the Department of Energy as the director of the Office of Science, was tapped to lead the Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation in late April.

“Following Chris’s departure, NIST Director Dr. Arvind Raman will continue to oversee CAISI and will serve as Acting CAISI Director,” a commerce spokesperson told the Daily Signal.

The Trump administration had initially picked Collin Burns, a former researcher at Anthropic and OpenAI, to lead the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, but while Burns was in the onboarding process, the Commerce Department selected Fall to lead the organization, the Daily Signal reported.

Fall resigned after only about three months in the role.

This comes after the Commerce Department imposed export controls on Anthropic’s new models due to concerns about offensive cyber capabilities. The agency lifted the export controls after about two weeks.

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Anthropic said at the time that researchers from the Center for AI Standards and Innovation had “tested both our prior and new safeguards and agree that they are extraordinarily strong.”