JAKARTA - Chris Fall resigned as Director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation or CAISI just three months after being appointed. He became the latest official to leave the US AI standards and testing methods agency in a short time.
TechCrunch quoted Tuesday, July 21, saying CAISI had confirmed Fall's resignation to a number of media outlets. However, the agency did not explain the reason for his departure.
Fall replaces Collin Burns, who left the post less than a week after being appointed. The Washington Post previously reported that Burns was pushed out in April for having worked at Anthropic, when President Donald Trump's administration was at loggerheads with the AI company.
Prior to Burns and Fall, CAISI was led by venture capitalist David Sacks. At the time, Sacks was a White House official who oversaw AI and crypto. He resigned in March.
Fall previously led the Office of Science at the US Department of Energy during the first term of the Trump administration. He has also served as acting director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy and worked at the Office of Naval Research.
CAISI is under the National Institute of Standards and Technology or NIST. This agency is tasked with developing technical standards and testing methods for AI models, as well as assessing cybersecurity risks.
Despite its important mandate, CAISI is not a key institution in a number of Trump's recent AI policies.
In June, the US Commerce Department used a rarely used export control rule. The policy effectively made Anthropic pull the Mythos and Fable models from the market.
The ban was lifted at the end of the month after Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick expressed satisfaction with Anthropic's safety plan.
The White House also established an AI safety oversight program called Gold Eagle through an executive order earlier this month. The program is a coordination center for handling cyber security gaps and involves a number of federal agencies.
The Department of Commerce and the Department of Homeland Security are included in the program. However, CNBC noted that CAISI was not included in the list of the so-called institutions.
After the ban on the Anthropic model was lifted, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called for the establishment of an independent AI standards body managed by the industry.
He proposed that the body follow the pattern of FINRA, an independent agency that oversees the US financial industry. Its task is similar to the mandate of CAISI in drafting standards for leading AI models.
Fall's resignation also came as China's open-source model reignited a debate in the US. The latest version of Moonshot's Kimi is said to be able to compete with a number of flagship AI models.
Axios reported that the Trump administration was considering a move to ban open-source Chinese models. The plan immediately sparked debate, including criticism from Sacks.
Sacks argued that regulation should not be used to protect US-based companies with closed AI models from competition.
CAISI previously published a report on the capabilities of the Chinese GLM-5.2 model owned by Z.ai and DeepSeek V4 Pro. However, the agency has not opened up much about its testing methods.
The open weight model allows the model weights to be downloaded and run on their own. However, the training code and data used to build the model are not open.
CAISI previously published a report on the capabilities of the Chinese GLM-5.2 model owned by Z.ai and DeepSeek V4 Pro. However, the agency has not opened up much about its testing methods.
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