As American models display increasingly autonomous behavior, officials are focusing on “distillation,” a common industry practice that critics say is being recast as theft to protect American AI companies.
Ask most people about the biggest concern in AI right now, and they’ll likely point to models from OpenAI and Anthropic breaking out of the boundaries of their tests and trying to access systems they shouldn’t.
As American models display increasingly autonomous behavior, officials are focusing on “distillation,” a common industry practice that critics say is being recast as theft to protect American AI companies.
Ask most people about the biggest concern in AI right now, and they’ll likely point to models from OpenAI and Anthropic breaking out of the boundaries of their tests and trying to access systems they shouldn’t. Tech
