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OpenAI vows to provide the US government early access to its next AI model

<p>OpenAI will give the US AI Safety Institute early access to its next model as part of its safety efforts, Sam Altman has revealed in a tweet. Apparently, the company has been working with the consortium &quot;to push forward the science of AI evaluations.&quot; The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has formally established the Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute earlier this year, though Vice President Kamala Harris <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/kamala-harris-announces-ai-safety-institute-to-protect-american-consumers-060011065.html">announced[/url] it back in 2023 at the UK AI Safety Summit. Based on the <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://www.nist.gov/aisi/artificial-intelligence-safety-institute-consortium-aisic">NIST's description[/url] of the consortium, it's meant &quot;to develop science-based and empirically backed guidelines and standards for AI measurement and policy, laying the foundation for AI safety across the world.&quot;</p>
<p>The company, along with DeepMind, similarly pledged to share AI models <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/google-openai-will-share-ai-models-with-the-uk-government-134318263.html">with the UK government[/url] last year. As <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/31/openai-pledges-to-give-u-s-ai-safety-institute-early-access-to-its-next-model/">TechCrunch[/url] notes, there have been growing concerns that OpenAI is making safety less of a priority as it seeks to develop more powerful AI models. There were speculations that the board decided to kick Sam Altman out of the company — he was very quickly <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/sam-altman-is-reinstated-as-openai-ceo-five-days-after-being-fired-070037749.html">reinstated[/url] — due to safety and security concerns. However, the company <a data-i13n="cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/internal-memo-says-sam-altmans-firing-wasnt-due-to-malfeasance-or-openai-safety-practices-205156164.html">told staff members[/url] in an internal memo back then, that it was because of &quot;a breakdown in communication.&quot;</p>
<span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><p>In May this year, OpenAI admitted that it <a data-i13n="cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/the-openai-team-tasked-with-protecting-humanity-is-no-more-183433377.html">disbanded the Superalignment team[/url] it created to ensure that humanity remains safe as the company advances its work on generative artificial intelligence. Before that, OpenAI co-founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever, who was one of the team's leaders, <a data-i13n="cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/openai-co-founder-and-chief-scientist-ilya-sutskever-is-leaving-the-company-054650964.html">left the company[/url]. Jan Leike, who was also one of the team's leaders, quit, as well. He said in a series of tweets that he had been disagreeing with OpenAI's leadership about the core priorities of the company for quite some time and that &quot;safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products.&quot; OpenAI <a data-i13n="cpos:9;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/openais-new-safety-team-is-led-by-board-members-including-ceo-sam-altman-164927745.html">created a new safety group[/url] by the end of May, but it's led by board members that include Altman, prompting concerns about self-policing.&nbsp;</p>
<div id="c444366b535b423e88ee52bb8bccf1f5"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">a few quick updates about safety at openai:

as we said last july, we’re committed to allocating at least 20% of the computing resources to safety efforts across the entire company.

our team has been working with the US AI Safety Institute on an agreement where we would provide…</p>— Sam Altman (@sama) August 1, 2024 (https://twitter.com/sama/status/1818867964369928387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
 

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