… 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… …
… Anthropic’s new, 158,000-square-foot office footprint will have space enough for 800 people—four times its current head count—giving it room to potentially outscale OpenAI, which itself recently announced an expansion in London. “Europe's largest businesses and fastest-growing startups are choosing… …
… It is a critique that echoes many contemporary debates around AI governance: Who controls the models? Who decides the criteria by which they are trained? …
… 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… …
… This is so irresponsible.” Privacy advocates have long pointed out that while child safety and public safety should always be paramount, child sexual abuse and other crimes still play out daily on chat apps and other digital services that do not offer the universal protection of end-to-end encrypti… …
… 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. …