… 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… …
… 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 … …
… California’s Transparency in Frontier AI Act SB 53 has been put into action as a law that requires AI developers to be more transparent about how they’ve created their AI’s framework, makes it easier for developers and citizens to report safety errors and protects whistleblowers who disclose crucia… …
… That means multiple layers of security so that a single misconfiguration — like inadvertently leaving internet access open — can’t lead to escape. “If you are going to build these models…you want to do it on an air-gapped network,” Stella Biderman, executive director of AI safety research nonprofit… …
… By Steve Dent June 5, 2026 8:25 am EST Earlier this week Donald Trump put his Sharpie to a new executive order requiring government oversight of advanced AI models to ensure their safety. …
… If you’d like to read more about what we discussed in this episode, check out these links: It’s their job to keep AI from destroying everything | The Verge Anthropic details how it measures Claude’s wokeness | The Verge The White House orders tech companies to make AI bigoted again | The Verge Chao… …
… 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. …