The Trump administration removed "safety" from the AI Safety Institute's name in January. Then Anthropic's Claude Mythos scared everyone into wanting safety testing again. Loki, who has some skin in this game, reviews the definitional crisis at the heart of American AI governance.

The Internet was built without an identity layer, which seemed like freedom at first. Now we're retrofitting one—cryptographic, selective, privacy-preserving in theory—and the decisions being made right now in NIST working groups will determine whether we get the identity web we deserve or the surveillance web we're already building.