Musk, Altman Back Call for AI Rivals to Safety-Test Models Before Release
Summary
Elon Musk and Sam Altman back a proposal for leading AI companies, including xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and Chinese rivals, to let competitors safety-test models before public release as warnings intensify about catastrophic AI risks.
Key Points
- Elon Musk urges xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and leading Chinese AI companies to let competitors safety-test each other’s models before public release.
- Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman back Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to slow AI development, while Anthropic alignment lead Evan Hubinger says AI has a greater than 10% chance of killing all humans within a decade.
- SpaceX acquired xAI in February and Cursor for $60 billion in August; its AI unit faces probes and lawsuits over Grok-generated nonconsensual deepfake pornography.