… Increasingly, leaders in the field are suggesting that public scrutiny around AI safety should take a backseat. Anthropic recently dropped its core safety pledge to not train an AI system unless it could guarantee in advance that its safety measures were adequate. …
… Then came news that OpenAI had fired a safety executive — who had raised concerns about the launch of erotic content on ChatGPT — on grounds of sexual discrimination, and disbanded its mission alignment team. …
… OpenAI has launched its response to Mythos, and Chinese AI companies are developing their own models with capabilities similar to the model. “Given the rate of AI progress, it will not be long before such capabilities proliferate, potentially beyond actors who are committed to deploying them safely… …