… 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 … …
… 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… …
… 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… …
… 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… …
… His expertise will likely prove valuable to Anthropic, as Congress continues to stall on passing AI regulation and states are taking the lead. “Dubious” Motives While Anthropic’s pro-regulation agenda has been praised by AI safety groups, labor unions, and other allies of the company, some Silicon … …
… 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 … …
… After joining OpenAI as an intern in 2017, Achiam went on to become a research scientist focused on AI safety. He was known internally as a stalwart defender of OpenAI’s safety-focused mission, but was also controversial for his occasional criticisms of the broader AI safety community. …
… The DSIT said the latest set of proposed regulations are meant to “help ensure there is no cliff edge in protections as young people move into their later teenage years,” as future youths will hypothetically have no experience with social media before that age, thanks to the constraints imposed on … …
… And on April 20, Congressman Blake Moore of Utah introduced the first federal bill, named the AI Children’s Toy Safety Act, calling for a ban on the manufacture and sale of children’s toys that incorporate AI chatbots. “What all these products need is a multidisciplinary, independent testing proces… …
… The executive order notes that it should not be seen as a “mandatory licensing regime,” but critics have argued that the Trump administration’s opaque process has created just that. “The regulations necessary to prevent the catastrophic risks presented by uncontrolled AI and superintelligence shoul… …