VentureBeat February 8, 2024
One day after appointing a top White House aide as director of the new US AI Safety Institute (USAISI) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Biden Administration announced the creation of the US AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC), which it called “the first-ever consortium dedicated to AI safety.”
The coalition includes more than 200 member companies and organizations, ranging from Big Tech firms such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon and top LLM companies like OpenAI, Cohere and Anthropic to a range of research labs, civil society and academic teams, state and local governments and nonprofits.
A NIST blog post said the AISIC “represents the largest collection of test and evaluation teams established to date and will...