Drawing Lines: Tiers for Foundation Models

How should governments delineate foundation models to design proportionate regulation? Governments are taking action to govern foundation models. The US issued a landmark Executive Order that enshrined “dual-use foundation models” as a specific focus. The UK has honed in on frontier models as a narrower class of highly-capable foundation models as the subject of the world’s first AI Summit and their new AI Safety Institute. The G7 issued their principles and code of conduct for foundation models and generative AI. …