… The group, which is backed by private donors, aims to improve the safety practices of frontier AI companies. Other AI safety nonprofits also signed on, including Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology, Encode AI, and The Midas Project. …
… "OpenAI has emphasized that a key part of its mission is safety and they are going to prioritize safety over profits," Schizer said. "Part of that is taking safety rules seriously, if something needs to be subject to safety review, it needs to happen. …
… 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… …
… 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 … …
… If OpenAI’s internal team decides that the situation represents a serious safety risk, ChatGPT proceeds to send the trusted contact an alert — either by email, text message, or an in-app notification. …
… These incidents have sparked a wave of lawsuits against OpenAI from grieving families seeking accountability for interactions they believe contributed to their loved ones' deaths. …
… Anthropic is primarily an AI safety and research company. Its founding mission is rooted in making AI that is safe and understandable, which is why safety-focused training methods like Constitutional AI are central to its work. …
… Ultimately, he said that there was a tension between the pursuit of AGI and safety. Russell’s larger concerns about the existential threats of unconstrained AI didn’t get aired in open court after objections from OpenAI’s attorneys led the judge to limit Russell’s testimony. …
… While PauseAI says it “unequivocally condemns this attack and all forms of violence, intimidation and harassment,” it also called out that “a handful of commentators have seized on this incident to paint the broader movement for AI safety as dangerous or extremist.” PauseAI organizes protests and t… …
… When he and others raised concerns, he says, Musk argued that OpenAI’s for-profit makeover created incentives to disregard safety, but his own xAI is for-profit and has, at best, a haphazard approach to safety. …