He was appointed just three months ago after the last appointee, Collin Burns, left in less than a week, The Washington Post reported at the time. Burns was reportedly 'pushed out' of the job in April because he previously worked for Anthropic and the Trump administration had been battling with the company, sources told the Post. No reason was given for Fall's departure. Prior to leading CAISI, Fall was the director of the Department of Energy's Office of Science during the first Trump administration and had been the acting director of the DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. He worked in the DOE's Office of Naval Research (ONR) prior to that. CAISI, which operates under the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is the primary organization for developing technical standards and testing methods for AI models as well as assessing cybersecurity risks. Yet it was not the agency at the center of the most recent model-risk brouhaha. That occurred in June when the U.S....
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