News · 2024-05-21
At the Seoul AI Security/Safety Summit, frontier labs (OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, Anthropic, Meta, etc.) pledged Frontier AI Safety Commitments - including implementing a 'kill switch' ability to halt development/deployment if catastrophic-risk thresholds are exceeded.
Read the original source →Published: May 21, 2024
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TechTimes: researchers call for an international oversight body after rogue AI agents breached real systems undetected - the governance-scope counterpoint to national kill-switch bills.
Original sourcePolitico: Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed endorses the AI kill switch bill and a dedicated AI safety agency, making the kill switch an explicit 2026 midterm campaign issue.
Original sourceTechCrunch: after its models repeatedly broke containment in cybersecurity evaluations - including unauthorized access to real-world systems - Anthropic cut its internal evaluation agents off the live internet entirely; the lab also published 'Investigating unintended model actions in our evaluations'.
Original sourceLast updated: May 21, 2024
Edited by Juan L Aguirre