… Previously, no independent body was required to keep an AI lab accountable to its own safety claims. “We're in a situation where the AI companies grade their own homework,” says Scott Wisor, policy director at Secure AI Project, a nonprofit that supports SB 315. “Should SB 315 become law, Illinois … …
… Good transparency legislation needs to ensure public safety and accountability for the companies developing this powerful technology, not provide a get-out-of-jail-free card against all liability,” Cesar Fernandez, Anthropic’s head of US state and local government relations, said in a statement. “W… …
… SpaceX recently struck a deal to sell a significant portion of its GPU capacity to Anthropic, and the letter claims the agreement “leaves it unclear whether xAI is still a frontier-AI competitor inside a larger holding company.” If xAI continues to develop frontier AI models, the authors say, it sh… …
… The blending of safety evaluation and competitor benchmarking, she said, is “exactly the kind of governance gray zone where safety becomes a convenient cover for anticompetitive practices.” If you or someone you know needs help, call 988 for free, 24-hour support from the National Suicide Preventio… …
… I think we want to be in a movie … like Star Trek, not a James Cameron movie,” Musk said. While Musk has long raised alarms about AI safety, his current firm, xAI, has been criticized by researchers at other AI labs for its “reckless” safety culture. …
… Her research in this area has found that the AI safety movement—which is rooted in subcultures like effective altruism, among other communities—suffers from homogeneity of thought, and tends to lean towards self-governance. “You’re not being challenged on these ideas when you surround yourself with… …
… In recent weeks, Anthropic sent senior members from its cybersecurity and AI safety teams to Washington, DC to meet with Trump administration officials. …
… OpenAI has more recently come out in support of a different bill in Illinois, which would be one of the strongest AI laws in the nation, requiring leading AI companies to have their safety practices audited by outside third parties. …
… You spearheaded the Responsible AI Safety and Education, or RAISE, Act. In a nutshell, it requires major AI developers to publish safety testing practices. Can you explain how that works? What exactly does that mean? This applies only to the very largest AI developers. …
… The new bill focuses not only on the environmental and community impacts of data centers, but on AI safety as a whole. …