Helen Toner

The companies at the frontier are actively working to build artificial general intelligence (AGI), i.e. AI that is as capable as human experts across a wide range of fields. The CEOs of these companies claim that this goal will likely be reached with...

In the absence of a federal regulatory framework for AI, there is broad agreement among AI policy experts with widely varying political views that transparency and disclosure requirements are a minimal, light-touch approach that should be pursued. [....

Results of testing for AI models’ capabilities and risks. A lack of clear, up-to-date information about what the world’s best AI systems are capable of puts the U.S. government at a huge disadvantage in understanding how the AI frontier is progressin...

If AI companies want to claim that they are building the most world-changing technology to ever exist, their employees should be able to share concerns about risks to public safety along the way without fearing the repercussions. AI whistleblowing is...

[The companies are] deadly serious about building machines that can outperform humans at everything, and [...] deadly serious that they don't know if they'll be able to control the machines they create.

Right now…the winner of any AI race between the U.S. and China is the AI. We need to be working to make sure that is not the case. I think it is very important that the U.S. AI sector remains ahead of the Chinese AI sector, but if that's at the expen...

AI systems are being developed entirely within private industry, with little visibility available to Congress or the executive branch. [...] Congress should set transparency requirements for developers of high-stakes AI systems, including requirement...

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...

And they should have to let in external AI auditors to scrutinize their work so that the companies aren't just grading their own homework.