OpenAI, responding to questions from US lawmakers, mentioned it is devoted to creating certain its highly effective AI instruments do not trigger hurt, and that staff have methods to lift considerations about security practices.
The startup sought to reassure lawmakers of its dedication to security after 5 senators together with Senator Brian Schatz, a Democrat from Hawaii, raised questions on OpenAI’s insurance policies in a letter addressed to Chief Govt Officer Sam Altman.
“Our mission is to make sure synthetic intelligence advantages all of humanity, and we’re devoted to implementing rigorous security protocols at each stage of our course of,” Chief Technique Officer Jason Kwon mentioned Wednesday in a letter to the lawmakers.
Particularly, OpenAI mentioned it is going to proceed to uphold its promise to allocate 20 p.c of its computing assets towards safety-related analysis over a number of years. The corporate, in its letter, additionally pledged that it will not implement non-disparagement agreements for present and former staff, besides in particular instances of a mutual non-disparagement settlement. OpenAI’s former limits on staff who left the corporate have come beneath scrutiny for being unusually restrictive. OpenAI has since mentioned it has modified its insurance policies.
Altman later elaborated on its technique on social media.
“Our workforce has been working with the US AI Security Institute on an settlement the place we would supply early entry to our subsequent basis mannequin in order that we are able to work collectively to push ahead the science of AI evaluations,” he wrote on X.
a couple of fast updates about security at openai:
as we mentioned final july, we’re dedicated to allocating a minimum of 20% of the computing assets to security efforts throughout all the firm.
our workforce has been working with the US AI Security Institute on an settlement the place we would supply…
— Sam Altman (@sama) August 1, 2024
Kwon, in his letter, additionally cited the current creation of a security and safety committee, which is at present present process a evaluate of OpenAI’s processes and insurance policies.
In current months, OpenAI has confronted a collection of controversies round its dedication to security and talent for workers to talk out on the subject. A number of key members of its safety-related groups, together with former co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, resigned, together with one other chief of the corporate’s workforce dedicated to assessing long-term security dangers, Jan Leike, who publicly shared considerations that the corporate was prioritizing product improvement over security.
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