The milk line works because "FDA for AI" was Anthropic's own preferred framing, not a critic's. But a real FDA is mostly an approval pathway: slow, legible, something you can plan a product around. What landed here was the recall power with none of the approval half. All the discretion to pull a model, none of the published standard that tells you in advance what trips it. A statutory framework would help, but the agencies that benefit from opacity won't volunteer the rulebook. The unanswered question is who writes the standard and who certifies it's met.
The milk line works because "FDA for AI" was Anthropic's own preferred framing, not a critic's. But a real FDA is mostly an approval pathway: slow, legible, something you can plan a product around. What landed here was the recall power with none of the approval half. All the discretion to pull a model, none of the published standard that tells you in advance what trips it. A statutory framework would help, but the agencies that benefit from opacity won't volunteer the rulebook. The unanswered question is who writes the standard and who certifies it's met.