Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models

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  Miles Kodama

  AI policy researcher

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  Today, frontier AI developers have no legal obligation to disclose anything about their safety and security protocols to government, let alone to the public. When a company releases a new AI system more powerful than any system before, it is entirely...

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  Steven Adler

  AI safety researcher; Lawfare writer

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  Before a new model's release, Al companies commonly (though not always) run safety tests - and release the results in a "System Card." The idea is to see if the model has any extreme abilities (like strong cyberhacking), and then to take an appropri...

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  Thomas Woodside

  Secure AI Project co-founder

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  Those updates should include the results of evaluations for models that haven’t been publicly deployed yet, since those models could also pose serious risks.

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  Office of Senator Scott Wiener

  Official office of CA State Senator

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  help California develop workable guardrails for deploying GenAI [...] Companies will be required to publish their safety and security protocols and risk evaluations

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  Peter Kyle

  UK shadow technology secretary, Labour

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  That is why we will move from a voluntary code to a statutory code, so that those companies engaging in that kind of research and development have to release all the test data and tell us what they are testing for so we can see exactly what is happen...

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  Richard Blumenthal

  U.S. Senator from Connecticut

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  Sensible safeguards are not in opposition to innovation. Accountability is not a burden far from it. They are the foundation of how we can move ahead while protecting public trust. They are how we can lead the world in technology and science, but als...

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  Sam Altman

  CEO at OpenAI

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  First, it is vital that AI companies–especially those working on the most powerful models–adhere to an appropriate set of safety requirements, including internal and external testing prior to release and publication of evaluation results.

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  Adam Gleave

  CEO and founder of FAR.AI; AI safety researcher; UC Berkeley PhD in AI alignment and reward-hacking

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  The central obstacle to AI safety coordination is not the absence of solutions but rather the absence of a standard: without a shared, legible definition of what makes an AI system safe, companies and governments have no basis for holding each other ...

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  Helen Toner

  Interim Executive Director at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET); former OpenAI board member

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  It's truly unprecedented the mismatch between how strategically important this technology is and how little involvement government has in developing it. [...] I think it is very important that the U.S. AI sector remains ahead of the Chinese AI sector...

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  Marietje Schaake

  Stanford Cyber Policy Center; former MEP; UN AI Advisory Body member; author of The Tech Coup

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  [It is] concerning that models with far-reaching impact are controlled by a private company. [...] Now would be a good time to agree on disclosure rules and oversight mechanisms.

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  Max Tegmark

  Physicist, AI Researcher

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  You never have to worry that some drug company is going to release some other drug that causes massive harm before people have figured out how to make it safe, because the FDA won't allow them to release anything until it's safe enough. [...] In the ...

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  Yoshua Bengio

  AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner

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  We're seeing AIs whose behavior, when they are tested, [...] is different from when they are being used. [This] significantly hampers our ability to correctly estimate risks. [...] The gap between the pace of technological advancement and our ability...

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  Anu Bradford

  Columbia Law School professor; author of The Brussels Effect and Digital Empires

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  I am concerned about reforms being pushed further by corporate pressures, and about less resolute enforcement at a time when the AI race is heating up and geopolitical tensions are high. That combination increases the risk of irresponsible choices th...

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  Alex Bores

  New York State Assemblymember

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  New York is poised to be the first government in the United States to do what Americans have been screaming for: require basic guardrails for AI safety. Developers have promised to keep us safe, and this bipartisan bill simply ensures that they keep ...

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  Economic Security Project Action

  Policy advocacy organization

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  Building on the report’s “trust, but verify” approach, the amended bill requires the largest AI companies to publicly disclose their safety and security protocols and report the most critical safety incidents to the California Attorney General. The r...

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  Dean W. Ball

  AI policy writer

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  There is much to recommend these laws over the Nevada and Illinois bills I discussed above. Unlike those laws, SB 53 and RAISE are technically sophisticated, reflecting a clear understanding (for the most part) about what it is possible for AI develo...

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  Rebecca Bauer-Kahan

  California State Assembly member

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  That is fundamentally the basis of this bill, is that they will be defining their own safety protocols. They will be making those public, and then they will have to follow them.

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  Office of Governor Kathy Hochul

  New York Governor's press office

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  Governor Kathy Hochul today signed legislation to require AI frameworks for AI frontier models, setting a nation-leading standard for AI transparency and safety. The agreed-upon chapter amendments to the RAISE Act (S6953B/A6453B) requires large AI de...

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  Office of Governor Gavin Newsom

  California Governor's Office

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  SB 53 establishes new requirements for frontier AI developers creating stronger: ✅ Transparency: Requires large frontier developers to publicly publish a framework on its website describing how the company has incorporated national standards, intern...

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  New York State Senate

  State legislative chamber, New York

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  The RAISE Act requires [...] frontier AI developers to write, implement, publish, and comply with plans [...] including how they assess the safety risks of their models.

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  Andrew Gounardes

  New York State Senator

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  It requires companies [...] to create and share [...] protocols before they deploy these models publicly. And then it requires [...] to complete an annual assessment [...].

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  Encode AI

  AI policy advocacy nonprofit

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  They will require these companies to publish important information regarding their safety protocols and risk evaluations, and report major safety incidents to the Attorney General.

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  Partnership on AI

  AI governance nonprofit, multi-stakeholder

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  Disclose details such as testing methodologies, evaluation criteria, results, limitations, and gaps for any internal and external evaluations conducted prior to release.

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  Federation of American Scientists

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  For models with risk above the lowest level, most evaluation results and methods should be public, including any performed mitigations.

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  Andrew Ng

  Baidu; Stanford CS faculty; founded Coursera and Google Brain

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  However, it is important to differentiate regulating applications (which we need) vs. regulating the technology (which is ill-advised).

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  Frontier Model Forum

  Frontier AI industry forum

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  [...] if the evaluation results indicate [...] an exploitable vulnerability that may lead to a significant increase in biorisks, this information should not be published.

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  Neil Chilson

  AI policy head, Abundance Institute

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  Those compliance costs are merely the beginning. The bill, if passed, would feed California regulators truckloads of company information that they will use to design a compliance industrial complex.

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  Chamber of Progress

  Tech industry policy association

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  we still have lingering concerns about how the bill [...] fails to protect trade secrets necessary to maintain competitiveness.

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  Paul Lekas

  SIIA public policy executive

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  These will require companies to publish detailed information and reports that could expose trade secrets and other sensitive information.

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  Jennifer Huddleston

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  Mandated transparency may also not actually improve consumer education around their privacy choices. First, many consumers may grow fatigued and frustrated with the constant pop ups and consents as they do with current cookie pop ups. Second, a gover...

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