Elon Musk called on xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and three or four leading Chinese AI companies to let competitors run safety tests on their models before public release. Speaking at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday, he proposed giving rivals access to run a “test harness” to evaluate safety.
Musk proposed one or two weeks of early access for competitors and informal calls weekly or every two weeks. He argued that rivals would recognize security risks and have an incentive to flag models whose release should be delayed. “Instead of grading your own homework you would at least have competitors grading your homework,” he said. He advocated government intervention if a company refused to reduce a serious danger.
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have already been coordinating on AI safety for several weeks and have discussed creating a standards body focused on testing and auditing models. OpenAI says it does not need an antitrust waiver for safety coordination, while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has requested a narrow waiver to enable safety talks among rivals as part of his call to slow advanced AI development.
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- SOURCE@cnbc“Speaking at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday, the SpaceX CEO said SpaceX’s xAI business, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and “three or four of the leading Chinese companies” should let rivals run a “test harness” on their models to evaluate their safety.”x.com
- SUPPORT@bradleykellard“Elon Musk: "It's pretty obvious at this point that AI can be very dangerous"”x.com
- SUPPORT@muskonomy“Elon Musk says AI is getting dangerous and wants the labs to test each other.”x.com
- SOURCE@andrewcurran_“OpenAI does not see the need for an antitrust waiver for the three AI firms to coordinate on safety matters”x.com
- SUPPORT@theinformation“Anthropic, OpenAI and Google have discussed creating their own standards body as the biggest AI developers consider how to coordinate on testing and auditing models.”x.com
- SUPPORT@techmeme“OpenAI backs a provision of the FRONTIER Act, a bipartisan House proposal, that would require AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure model safety”x.com
- SUPPORT@techmeme“OpenAI says it has been working with Anthropic and Google for several weeks on AI safety, and it does not need an antitrust waiver to coordinate on safety”x.com
- SOURCEmarketbrief.now