Forbes December 9, 2025
Big tech is failing, or at best a C student, when it comes to keeping us safe from AI, according to the latest iteration of the AI Safety Index released by the Future of Life Institute last week. The Index grades the world’s major frontier AI labs on their transparency, technical safeguards, governance practices — and their readiness to mitigate existential risks.
The Index is meant as both a report card and a public feedback tool, leveraging independent scrutiny until government regulations catch up.
“The purpose of this is not to shame anybody,” said Max Tegmark, MIT physicist and co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, which nearly three years ago crystalized public anxiety over increasingly powerful thinking machines with...
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