Future of Life Institute

Leading AI companies should: Ensure Human-Legible Reasoning - AI models should reason in ways that are accessible and understandable to humans. Developers should avoid opaque reasoning methods.

As US/EU compliance deadlines near, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta, and xAI published and updated fuller frameworks — yet they sometimes lack quantitative thresholds, genuinely independent audits, and clear decision authority.

Proactive incident reporting enables collective learning from safety failures and near-misses.

Broaden dangerous-capability evaluations and link thresholds to binding mitigations. Evaluations have gaping holes (no AI R&D data), and no procedure connects threshold breaches to deployment decisions, making thresholds effectively non-binding.

We commend the BIS rule’s inclusion of a provision which requires the reporting [...] computing power greater than 10^{26} integer or floating-point operations.