PYMNTS.com May 12, 2024
The U.K. has debuted what it calls a landmark toolset for artificial intelligence (AI) safety testing.
The new offering, announced Friday (May 10) by the country’s AI Safety Institute, is dubbed “Inspect” and is a software library that lets testers such as startups, academics and AI developers to international governments assess specific capabilities of individual AI models and then generate a score based on their results.
According to an institute news release, Inspect is the first AI safety testing platform overseen by a state-backed body and released for wider use.
“As part of the constant drumbeat of U.K. leadership on AI safety, I have cleared the AI Safety Institute’s testing platform — called Inspect — to be open sourced,”...