… 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. …
… 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 … …
… Dean Ball, a senior fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation and a former adviser to the White House on AI, wrote in a post on X that “degrading performance on ML research without telling the user is shockingly hostile and a terrible look.” He continued in another post that the “secret sabo… …
“The transparency-focused safety bills of 2025 were a really important start, but as the capabilities of AI systems continue to advance quickly—the policy responses need to match,” Cesar Fernandez, Anthropic’s head of US state and local government relations, told WIRED in an interview. “We think th… …
… "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 … …
… One of the letter’s signatories and coauthors is a new nonprofit called Guidelight AI Standards, which was cofounded by former OpenAI safety researcher Steven Adler and former OpenAI policy adviser Page Hedley. …
… OpenAI bars unsolicited safety testing, efforts to bypass safeguards, and using outputs to “develop models that compete with OpenAI.” Google prohibits attempts to bypass safety filters outside its safety and bug-testing programs, along with content involving self-harm, child sexual abuse or exploit… …
… Some outsiders believe that more serious incidents are increasingly likely. “In the AI research community, there is a broad, somber expectation that we are probably months rather than years away from particularly grim incidents involving bio, cyber, or chemical misuse of a frontier AI system's capa… …
… 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. …
