… 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 … …
… But Gleave also believes that the findings show that models can be systematically tested for safety. “There's an optimistic angle here,” he says. “Defense and safety really are possible.” Rohin Shah, the director of AGI safety and alignment at Google DeepMind, says the results of the report “should… …
… Saachi Jain, who previously led safety teams at OpenAI, will become the company’s interim head of safety systems, reporting to Glaese. “The demands on safety continue to increase—we are training models at a much faster cadence, and release cycles have come down greatly in turn,” said Chen in the me… …
… That same year, head of policy research Miles Brundage and Steven Adler, who led research on dangerous capabilities of AI models, both departed OpenAI to found nonprofits that advocate for AI labs to adhere to strong safety and security standards. …
… Hedley says the number of safety incidents xAI has experienced and the regulatory attention they received is “far out of proportion to its market share.” As lawmakers grow increasingly alarmed by the cyber capabilities of advanced AI models like Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, new security regulations m… …
… But as AI labs continue to release more powerful AI models that raise novel safety and cybersecurity challenges, such as Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, these questions feel increasingly prescient. …
… Following incidents of high-profile rogue activity by some of its AI agents, OpenAI said this week that it is halting model training runs and overhauling internal safety protocols. The company said that its upcoming Astra model may represent a turning point of “critical” cyber capabilities. …
… The attacks are, as OpenAI’s security boss said last year, an “unsolved security problem.” And, as security researchers have repeatedly warned while picking holes in the tools, long-standing web security practices, such as same-origin policy that stops websites interacting with each other, can be m… …
… During the Agentic AI Summit at Berkeley over the weekend, OpenAI cofounder Wojciech Zaremba, who serves as the head of AI resilience at the company’s philanthropic arm, said that the AI industry is “entering a new era.” “Imagine what would happen if, all of a sudden, the locks to your house stoppe…
… 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… …
