AISN #34: New Military AI Systems

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AI Labs Fail to Uphold Safety Commitments to UK AI Safety Institute

In November, leading AI labs committed to sharing their models before deployment to be tested by the UK AI Safety Institute. But reporting from Politico shows that these commitments have fallen through.

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta have all failed to share their models with the UK AISI before deployment. Only Google DeepMind, headquartered in London, has given pre-deployment access to UK AISI.

Anthropic released the most powerful publicly available language model, Claude 3, without any window for pre-release testing by the UK AISI. When asked for comment, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark said, “Pre-deployment testing is a nice idea but very difficult to implement.”

When asked about their concerns with pre-deployment testing [...]

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Outline:

(00:03) AI Labs Fail to Uphold Safety Commitments to UK AI Safety Institute

(02:17) New Bipartisan AI Policy Proposals in the US Senate

(06:35) Military AI in Israel and the US

(11:44) New Online Course on AI Safety from CAIS

(12:38) Links

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First published:
May 1st, 2024

Source:
https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/ai-safety-newsletter-34-new-military

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