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AI Safety Newsletter

Center for AI Safety

Narrations of the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required. This podcast also contains narrations of some of our publications. ABOUT US The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) is a San Francisco-based research and field-building nonprofit. We believe that artificial intelligence has the potential to profoundly benefit the world, provided that we can develop and use it safely. However, in contrast to the dramatic

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AISN: Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the...

AI Safety Newsletter ·

2024/05/30

Voluntary Commitments are Insufficient AI companies agree to RSPs in Seoul. Following the second AI Global Summit held in Seoul, the UK and Republic of Korea governments announced that 16 major technology organizations, including Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and xAI have agreed to a new set of Frontier AI Safety Commitments. Some commitments from the agreement include: Assessing risks posed by AI models and systems throughout the AI lifecycle. Setting thresholds for severe risks,

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2024/05/16

OpenAI and Google Announce New Multimodal Models In the current paradigm of AI development, there are long delays between the release of successive models. Progress is largely driven by increases in computing power, and training models with more computing power requires building large new data centers. More than a year after the release of GPT-4, OpenAI has yet to release GPT-4.5 or GPT-5, which would presumably be trained on 10x or 100x more compute than GPT-4, respectively. These models might be

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2024/05/01

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

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2024/04/11

This week, we cover: Consolidation in the corporate AI landscape, as smaller startups join forces with larger funders. Several countries have announced new investments in AI, including Singapore, Canada, and Saudi Arabia. Congress's budget for 2024 provides some but not all of the requested funding for AI policy. The White House's 2025 proposal makes more ambitious requests for AI funding. How will AI affect biological weapons risk? We reexamine this question in light of new experiments from

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2024/03/07

Measuring and Reducing Hazardous Knowledge The recent White House Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence highlights risks of LLMs in facilitating the development of bioweapons, chemical weapons, and cyberweapons. To help measure these dangerous capabilities, CAIS has partnered with Scale AI to create WMDP: the Weapons of Mass Destruction Proxy, an open source benchmark with more than 4,000 multiple choice questions that serve as proxies for hazardous knowledge across biology, chemistry, and

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2024/02/21

This week, we’ll discuss: A new proposed AI bill in California which requires frontier AI developers to adopt safety and security protocols, and clarifies that developers bear legal liability if their AI systems cause unreasonable risks or critical harms to public safety. Precedents for AI governance from healthcare and biosecurity. The EU AI Act and job opportunities at their enforcement agency, the AI Office. A New Bill on AI Policy in California Several leading AI companies have public

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AISN #30: Investments in Compute and Military AI

AI Safety Newsletter ·

2024/01/24

Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required. Compute Investments Continue To Grow Pausing AI development has been proposed as a policy for ensuring safety. For example, an open letter last year from the Future of Life Institute called for a six-month pause on training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. But one interesting fact about frontier AI development is that it comes with natural pauses that

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AISN #29: Progress on the EU AI Act

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2024/01/04

Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required. A Provisional Agreement on the EU AI Act On December 8th, the EU Parliament, Council, and Commission reached a provisional agreement on the EU AI Act. The agreement regulates the deployment of AI in high risk applications such as hiring and credit pricing, and it bans private companies from building and deploying AI for unacceptable applications such as

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The Landscape of US AI Legislation

AI Safety Newsletter ·

2023/12/29

Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required. This week we’re looking closely at AI legislative efforts in the United States, including: Senator Schumer's AI Insight Forum The Blumenthal-Hawley framework for AI governance Agencies proposed to govern digital platforms State and local laws against AI surveillance The National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) Senator Schumer's AI Insight Forum The CEOs

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AISN #28: Center for AI Safety 2023 Year in Review

AI Safety Newsletter ·

2023/12/21

As 2023 comes to a close, we want to thank you for your continued support for AI safety. This has been a big year for AI and for the Center for AI Safety. In this special-edition newsletter, we highlight some of our most important projects from the year. Thank you for being part of our community and our work. Center for AI Safety's 2023 Year in Review The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) is on a mission to reduce societal-scale risks from AI. We believe this requires research and regulation. These both

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AISN #27: Defensive Accelerationism

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2023/12/07

Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required. Defensive Accelerationism Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum, recently wrote an essay on the risks and opportunities of AI and other technologies. He responds to Marc Andreessen's manifesto on techno-optimism and the growth of the effective accelerationism (e/acc) movement, and offers a more nuanced perspective. Technology is often great for

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National Institutions for AI Safety

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2023/11/15

Also, Results From the UK Summit, and New Releases From OpenAI and xAI. Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required.This week's key stories include: The UK, US, and Singapore have announced national AI safety institutions. The UK AI Safety Summit concluded with a consensus statement, the creation of an expert panel to study AI risks, and a commitment to meet again in six months. xAI, OpenAI, and a new

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AISN: White House Executive Order on AI, UK AI Safety...

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2023/10/31

Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required.White House Executive Order on AIWhile Congress has not voted on significant AI legislation this year, the White House has left their mark on AI policy. In June, they secured voluntary commitments on safety from leading AI companies. Now, the White House has released a new executive order on AI. It addresses a wide range of issues, and specifically targets

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AISN: Kissinger Urges US-China Cooperation on AI,...

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2023/10/18

Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required.China's New AI Law, US Export Controls, and Calls for Bilateral CooperationChina details how AI providers can fulfill their legal obligations. The Chinese government has passed several laws on AI. They’ve regulated recommendation algorithms and taken steps to mitigate the risk of deepfakes. Most recently, they issued a new law governing generative AI. It's

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AISN #23: New OpenAI Models, News from Anthropic, and...

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2023/10/04

Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required.OpenAI releases GPT-4 with Vision and DALL·E-3, announces Red Teaming NetworkGPT-4 with vision and voice. When GPT-4 was initially announced in March, OpenAI demonstrated its ability to process and discuss images such as diagrams or photographs. This feature has now been integrated into GPT-4V. Users can now input images in addition to text, and the model

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AISN #21: Google DeepMind’s GPT-4 Competitor,...

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2023/09/05

Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required.Google DeepMind’s GPT-4 CompetitorComputational power is a key driver of AI progress, and a new report suggests that Google’s upcoming GPT-4 competitor will be trained on unprecedented amounts of compute. The model, currently named Gemini, may be trained by the end of this year with 5x more computational power than GPT-4. By the end of next year, the report

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AISN #20: LLM Proliferation, AI Deception, and...

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2023/08/29

AI Deception: Examples, Risks, SolutionsAI deception is the topic of a new paper from researchers at and affiliated with the Center for AI Safety. It surveys empirical examples of AI deception, then explores societal risks and potential solutions.The paper defines deception as “the systematic production of false beliefs in others as a means to accomplish some outcome other than the truth.” Importantly, this definition doesn't necessarily imply that AIs have beliefs or intentions. Instead, it focuses

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[Paper] “An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks” by Dan...

AI Safety Newsletter ·

2023/08/21

Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have sparked growing concerns among experts, policymakers, and world leaders regarding the potential for increasingly advanced AI systems to pose catastrophic risks. Although numerous risks have been detailed separately, there is a pressing need for a systematic discussion and illustration of the potential dangers to better inform efforts to mitigate them. This paper provides an overview of the main sources of catastrophic AI risks, which we

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[Paper] “Unsolved Problems in ML Safety” by Dan...

AI Safety Newsletter ·

2023/08/21

Machine learning (ML) systems are rapidly increasing in size, are acquiring new capabilities, and are increasingly deployed in high-stakes settings. As with other powerful technologies, safety for ML should be a leading research priority. In response to emerging safety challenges in ML, such as those introduced by recent large-scale models, we provide a new roadmap for ML Safety and refine the technical problems that the field needs to address. We present four problems ready for research, namely

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[Paper] “X-Risk Analysis for AI Research” by Dan...

AI Safety Newsletter ·

2023/08/21

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to greatly improve society, but as with any powerful technology, it comes with heightened risks and responsibilities. Current AI research lacks a systematic discussion of how to manage long-tail risks from AI systems, including speculative long-term risks. Keeping in mind the potential benefits of AI, there is some concern that building ever more intelligent and powerful AI systems could eventually result in systems that are more powerful than us; some

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