Regulation & safety
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AI Alignment ForumResearchAdditional Course Context (for AI Safety Fundamentals; unofficial) Context: I created this to share before the start of courses I facilitate to provide a bunch of additional context and frames.
Software Engineering DailyVoicesAI Regulation and What Every Tech Company Should Know The rapid rise of AI has set off a flurry of legal and regulatory activity. There is no single AI law to follow.
PlatformerVoicesThe AI election that wasn't Voters have other things on their minds — for now. PLUS: OpenAI’s clever policy to fight deepfakes, and the Anthropic S-1
Last Week in AIVoicesLast Week in AI #346 - 719 math manuscripts, 2 Western open models, 1 more safety resignation Top News OpenAI publishes hundreds of math proofs from unreleased frontier model Sources: OpenAI drops another batch of mathematical breakthroughs Sharing AI progress in mathematics OpenAI Releases…
AI Snake OilVoicesA big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement? In recent weeks, two narratives about AI safety have emerged: either AI existential risk is real and imminent, or AI leaders’ and whistleblowers’ claims to that effect are insincere — a “psyop” or…
Bloomberg Technology
Bloomberg TechnologyValleyAI Industry on Safety and Control Dan Lahav, Co-Founder & CEO, Irregular and Joëlle Pineau, Chief AI Officer, Cohere, discuss emerging AI risks, credible guardrails and accountability as frontier models advance with Bloomberg’s Parmy…
The Information
The InformationValleyHow Nvidia Uses Its Soft Power to Influence Customers and Shape Policy Last month, OpenAI Senior Research Scientist Noam Brown posted a link in a company Slack channel to a news story about OpenAI’s changing stance on advanced chip sales to China and asked a blunt…
The Information
The InformationValleyChina Signals Plans for Broad AI Safety Guardrails China’s top economic planner said on Tuesday that the country will closely monitor the impact of AI on employment, as Beijing moves to establish safety standards and ethical guidelines covering “the…
TechCrunch AIValleyNew York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping The New York Times is suing privacy-focused web browser company Brave for allegedly scraping the outlet’s copyrighted content and unlawfully distributing it to its own customers, like Anthropic and…
PhoronixSiliconRadeon RADV Vulkan Driver Adopts An LLM Policy The Mesa RADV driver that provides Vulkan API support for AMD Radeon GPUs on Linux has adopted its own policy around AI / large language models (LLMs) for code contributions...
Wired AIValleyHundreds of Mundane AI Apps Are Hiding Sexually Abusive Deepfake Features WIRED uncovered some 400 apps and websites linked to Chinese-language developers that look like regular AI tools but had secret features that let users create violent AI-generated images and video.
SCMP TechAsiaSelf-improving AI the key step towards AGI but safety is key: Z.ai founder Using artificial intelligence to build even smarter systems will make artificial general intelligence (AGI) more achievable, though it would need to be done safely, leading Chinese computer scientist…
AI Alignment ForumResearchExplaining “AI might obliterate you” to senior policymakers in India I gave a 20-minute talk in Delhi at the NDTV World Summit . The audience consisted of Indian policymakers, executives, and journalists. I’ve transcribed the talk and included some highlight clips.
OpenAI News
OpenAI NewsLabsCommunity safety report and new protections for teens OpenAI is strengthening violence prevention in ChatGPT with expanded safeguards, earlier interventions, and a new commitment to public safety reporting.
AI Alignment ForumResearchNotes on “We’re in Triage Mode for AI Safety” by Miles Brundage This reading was previously included Day 2 of the BlueDot Governance course. In the newest version of the BlueDot Governance course, this reading is now optional.
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconYour Robot’s Safety Functions Already Work. What If the Input Lies? This article is brought to you by VicOne . A mobile robot slows for someone in a hallway. A collaborative arm eases its movement as a worker approaches. A humanoid pauses to let a person pass.
Meta EngineeringLabsPrivacyLib: Privacy Controls at the Data Access Boundary This latest deep dive into Meta’s Privacy Aware Infrastructure (PAI) takes a look at PrivacyLib. A privacy requirement must hold as data moves through Meta’s diverse data and processing systems.
AI BusinessAnthropic maintains its focus on safety in IPO filing Anthropic structured its corporate voting power in a special LLC to maintain its mission of building safe AI technology.
Zvi MowshowitzVoicesGemini 4 Argon: The Model and Safety Cards Gemini 4’s model card is a compact 14 pages. Its safety and security report has 217. This is The Way. It also means we have a lot of new reading material.
AI Alignment Forum
AI Alignment ForumResearchMonitorability evaluations and policy proposals There has been a lot of discussion recently of policy proposals around monitorability, such as Redwood's proposal and my counter-proposal .
Amazon ScienceResearchStrengthening AI safety evaluation through independent third-party review As frontier AI models grow in capability, so does the importance of ensuring that safety evaluations are rigorous and comprehensive.
InterconnectsVoicesLatest open artifacts (#25): DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, American-made models, and new regulatory controls in the US & China The geopolitics of open-weight AI are accelerating again this fall, as we would expect with the risks of all AI systems (open and closed) rising rapidly.
LangChainToolsHow Numan Built an Eval-First AI Health Coach with LangGraph and LangSmith How Numan built Nu, an AI health coach, on LangGraph and LangSmith with per-category evals, simulated conversations, and safety gates on a regulatory line.
Zvi MowshowitzVoicesLeaked Anthropic Draft AI Regulatory Bill Is Unacceptable and Troubling There is a newly leaked bill that Anthropic is purportedly shopping around is (if you assume its bugs get fixed).
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