Anthropic · OpenAI · Google · SpaceX · Sam Altman · Demis Hassabis · The Verge
The AI policy window is open, with growing bipartisan support for mandatory national safety standards for frontier AI
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An AI venture capitalist, who requested anonymity due to their current investments, agreed that regulation was necessary.
Key facts
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis, and even SpaceX CEO Elon Musk publicly seemed to agree on aspects of all three things
- People want to know AI is being developed safely,” Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s global affairs chief, told The Verge
- The Trump administration has attacked the idea of a safety crisis in AI, calling it a “hoax.” The AI world itself is also divided
- It’s AI CEO against AI CEO, and things are changing by the day
Summary
It’s AI CEO against AI CEO, and things are changing by the day. At the start of this week, the who’s-who of AI seemed, at least tentatively, on the side of AI regulation. Anthropic and OpenAI had already been dropping hints that they and other labs were working on some kind of industry framework. For now, any government involvement in this process looks like a non-starter. “People want to know AI is being developed safely,” Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s global affairs chief, told The Verge.