… SpaceX and xAI did not immediately respond to WIRED’s request for comment. The letter also outlines examples of how xAI has not kept up with industry-standard safety practices such as publishing detailed frameworks for mitigating risks around its AI models being used in cyber attacks. …
… "Liability already exists under common law and provides a powerful incentive for AI companies to take reasonable steps to prevent foreseeable risks from their AI systems,” says Thomas Woodside, cofounder and senior policy adviser at the Secure AI Project, a nonprofit that has helped develop and adv… …
… It defines a frontier model as any AI model trained using more than $100 million in computational costs, which likely could apply to America’s largest AI labs, like OpenAI, Google, xAI, Anthropic, and Meta. “We support approaches like this because they focus on what matters most: Reducing the risk … …
… OpenAI says that the initiative fits into its broader security efforts, including an application security AI agent launched last month known as Codex Security, a cybersecurity grants program that began in 2023, a recent donation to the Linux Foundation to support open source security, and the “Prep… …
… Miko reaffirmed that its customer data has not been publicly accessible or compromised. “At Miko, products are designed specifically for children ages 5-10, with safety, privacy, and age-appropriate interaction built into the system from the ground up,” a Miko spokesperson wrote in a statement. “Th… …
… When enabled, these conversations are not shown in a user’s log history or used to improve OpenAI’s models. But these chats are not as ephemeral as they may feel for users. “For safety purposes, we may still keep a copy for up to 30 days,” reads OpenAI’s website. …
… 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. …
… One of the open positions on OpenAI’s site is for a “product marketing lead, advertising,” and part of the role's responsibilities is to “identify product risk areas e.g., performance, safety, policy, trust and drive cross-functional plans to mitigate them.” Ads come with risks, and how they’re exe… …
… Public advocacy groups disagree that funding alone is sufficient. “I am among the many people who are glad to see how many philanthropic resources the OpenAI foundation has at its disposal to do good work,” says Nathan Calvin, VP of state affairs for the AI safety nonprofit Encode, which filed an a… …
… OpenAI’s attorneys questioned him about why his worries seemed to intensify the same year he founded his own AI lab, xAI, as a company rather than a nonprofit. He testified that xAI’s for-profit structure does pose some safety risks to society. …