Global Tech Leaders Commit to AI Safety Standards

The article discusses the signing of voluntary artificial intelligence (AI) safety standards by 16 companies, including Google, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic. The signatories commit to working towards information sharing, investing in cybersecurity, and prioritizing research. However, critics argue that these commitments lack teeth, as they do not impose concrete obligations on the companies. According to the article, the new commitments include publishing safety frameworks for their AI models, outlining how they could be misused by bad actors. These frameworks would need to specify where severe risks would be deemed intolerable. Additionally, the companies committed not to develop or deploy a model that poses unacceptable risks.