CNBC August 29, 2024
Key Points
– The U.S. AI Safety Institute on Thursday announced it had come to a testing and evaluation agreement with OpenAI and Anthropic.
– The agreement allows the institute to “receive access to major new models from each company prior to and following their public release.”
– A number of AI developers and researchers have recently expressed concerns about safety and ethics in the increasingly for-profit AI industry.
OpenAI and Anthropic, two of the most richly valued artificial intelligence startups, have agreed to let the U.S. AI Safety Institute test their new models before releasing them to the public, following increased concerns in the industry about safety and ethics in AI.
The institute, housed within the Department of Commerce...