AI Lab Watch
Zach Stein-PerlmanWhat frontier AI labs are doing + what they should do
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AI companies' policy advocacy (Sep 2025)
Strong regulation is not on the table and all US frontier AI companies oppose it to varying degrees. Weak safety-relevant regulation is happening; some companies say they support and some say they oppose. (Some regulation not relevant to AI...
xAI's new safety framework is dreadful
I published this post last week on LessWrong. Zvi agrees with me. xAI hasn't replied and I haven't heard disagreements.
Two weeks ago, xAI finally published its Risk Management Framework and first model card. Unfortunately, the RMF effects...
AI companies have started saying safeguards are load-bearing
There are two ways to show that an AI system is safe: show that it doesn't have dangerous capabilities, or show that it's safe even if it has dangerous capabilities. Until three months ago, AI companies said their models didn't have dangero...
ChatGPT Agent: evals and safeguards
OpenAI released ChatGPT Agent last week. I read the system card, then added a page on it to my beta website AI Safety Claims Analysis. AI Safety Claims Analysis is mostly a reference work for AI safety professionals; as far as I know, it's...
AI companies aren't planning to secure critical model weights
AI companies' security plans, per their published safety policies, involve just SL3-4 security for powerful AI (see Appendix below).1 (Moreover, companies are likely to not follow their current policies.)
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Just SL3-4 is very inadeq...
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