OpenAI said on Tuesday it was working with competitors Anthropic and Google on a self-regulatory body for artificial intelligence. Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis proposed the body, modeled after the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and called in July for a federal organization to test the most powerful AI systems before they are released to the public.
OpenAI Says It Is Working With Anthropic and Google on AI Self-Regulatory Body
OpenAI said on Tuesday it was working with competitors Anthropic and Google on a self-regulatory body for artificial intelligence. Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis proposed the body, modeled after the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and called in July for a federal organization to test the most powerful AI systems before they are released to the public.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority oversees US brokers and investment firms. Hassabis suggested funding would come from the industry to "attract world-class technical talent and provide the necessary compute resources for large-scale testing."
The proposal comes amid growing concerns about AI safety, which escalated in recent weeks amid warnings from two former workers at major AI developers. Researcher Jacob Coxon, a former OpenAI employee, resigned from Anthropic last week, warning that AI companies were "gambling with our lives." On Monday, former Google DeepMind researcher Bilal Chughtai echoed his concerns, warning that "AI has the potential to kill us all, and that we might be running out of time to avoid this outcome."
On Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown in the industry's development, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, xAI's Elon Musk and Hassabis all supporting the sentiment.
Trump has dismissed the calls to better curb AI's development as "hoaxes" and a "conspiracy," while a divided Congress, narrowly controlled by Trump's Republicans, has failed to act. The looming midterm elections make it unlikely any action will come soon despite AI and the data centers needed to run it being a concern for many voters.
Trump's dismissal has been applauded by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose chipmaking company powers the vast majority of AI systems. Huang thanked the US president for "seeing through" the warnings on AI. The dire prediction that AI could destroy humanity "is not grounded on science," Huang said. Leading Republicans, including Vice President JD Vance, have expressed caution.
Amid a lack of action in Washington on regulation, smaller AI companies have warned any self-regulatory measures would come at their expense. Canadian AI company Cohere's chief, Aidan Gomez, has accused the dominant American AI labs of forming a "cartel" under the guise of safety. "AI needs guardrails. That is not the dispute and never has been. The dispute is over who writes them, who gets to participate and whose interests the rules are protecting," Gomez wrote in a blog post on Sunday.
- The source does not state when the proposed self-regulatory body would be established, what standards it would enforce, or whether it would have enforcement powers.
- The source does not state whether OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have agreed on the body's structure, funding, or timeline, or whether Anthropic and Google confirmed OpenAI's account.
- The source does not identify the smaller AI companies that warned self-regulatory measures would come at their expense.
- The source does not state what specific caution leading Republicans, including Vice President JD Vance, have expressed about AI regulation.
- The source does not state what actions, if any, Congress or the Trump administration have proposed on AI regulation.
- The source does not state which dangerous precedents it refers to in describing AI development.
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