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Federal AI Testing Institute Appoints Interim Director After Second Resignation

7/21/2026

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The federal AI testing institute experienced a second leadership turnover in three months when Chris Fall resigned as director.
Arvind Raman, former Purdue University engineering dean, was appointed interim director of the institute.
The Commerce Department gave no explanation for Fall’s resignation and the White House declined to comment.
The institute collaborates with Anthropic, DeepMind, OpenAI, Microsoft and xAI to test unreleased AI models for security vulnerabilities.

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The federal AI testing institute experienced a second leadership turnover in three months when Chris Fall resigned as director.
Arvind Raman, former Purdue University engineering dean, was appointed interim director of the institute.
The Commerce Department gave no explanation for Fall’s resignation and the White House declined to comment.
The institute collaborates with Anthropic, DeepMind, OpenAI, Microsoft and xAI to test unreleased AI models for security vulnerabilities.