… 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. …
… 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… …
… Concerns over job loss could also rise to the top of voters’ AI concerns as soon as this summer, according to Brendan Steinhauser, CEO of The Alliance for Secure AI, a nonprofit that aims to “defend humanity” in the AI age. “Based on what the technology is doing, and based on what leaders in the in… …
… But until recently, the Trump administration downplayed safety concerns and took a hands-off approach under former White House AI czar David Sacks. …
… There is no federal statute protecting AI company employees who disclose these kinds of safety concerns that are being aired in this piece. We have cases where Jan Leike, who was a senior safety guy at OpenAI, was leading super alignment at the company. …
… Achiam, who worked on AI safety, asked if that was really such a good idea. Musk called him a jackass. Years later, Musk is portraying his lawsuit as an attempt to avoid AI causing serious harm — something that, Altman’s team suggests, wasn’t high on his list of concerns back then. …
… The deal also requires Google to assist with making adjustments to its AI safety settings and filters at the government’s request. “We are proud to be part of a broad consortium of leading AI labs and technology and cloud companies providing AI services and infrastructure in support of national sec…
… Conversational attacks like this are “very hard to defend against,” Garraghan says, adding that safeguards will be “very context dependent.” The concerns extend beyond Claude — other chatbots are vulnerable to similar exploits, even being broken by prompts in the form of poetry. …
… Some of the most current ones are AI safety, the ways in which AI is being embedded in products, and the ways in which humans engage with the safety of AI and products. …
… He testified that he became involved in AI safety because he had a conversation with Google’s own Larry Page and asked, “What if AI wipes out all the humans?” Page essentially shrugged — as far as he was concerned, as long as the AI didn’t also go extinct, things were all right. “I said, ‘That’s in… …