Anthropic · OpenAI · Donald Trump · Meta · Germany · BBC Technology
US rejects pleas from OpenAI, Anthropic for global AI standards
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AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC.
Key facts
- UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham highlighted the need for new global AI standards in his first international speech at the UN General Assembly
- And last night both Sam Altman from OpenAI and Dario Amodei from Anthropic addressed the UN Security Council and pleaded for both, despite Trump not being at all enthusiastic about this approach
- There are known risks which are serious enough to be getting on with," Sir Nick Clegg, former head of global affairs at Meta, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme
- The only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the USA has that, in spades
Summary
It was a mantra coined by the tech giant Meta and used until 2012, which came to define the bad old days of social media running riot in a feeding frenzy of user data. Yet now they have large companies scrambling to develop ever more powerful AI, in an intense global race to be first to build the world's most advanced models, egged on by US President Donald Trump. Despite numerous pledges, commitments and open letters over the years from the industry, promising to prioritise safe, responsible AI aligned with human values, examples of bots behaving badly, to put it mildly - are now coming at them thick and fast. OpenAI's agents seem to feature prominently in the current roll call of AI products taking their remits to extremes. The Australian government is fuming at the firm's most recent disclosure, that its products accessed both public and non-public data from part of the country's online Medicare healthcare system.