AI strategy & governance. ailabwatch.org.
Maybe. Note that they sometimes brag about how independent the Trust is and how some investors dislike it, e.g. Dario:
Every traditional investor who invests in Anthropic looks at this. Some of them are just like, whatever, you run your company how you want. Some of them are like, oh my god, this body of random people could move Anthropic in a direction that's totally contrary to shareholder value.
And I've never heard someone from Anthropic suggest this.
I suspect the informal agreement was nothing more than the UK AI safety summit "safety testing" session, which is devoid of specific commitments.
I agree such commitments are worth noticing and I hope OpenAI and other labs make such commitments in the future. But this commitment is not huge: it's just "20% of the compute we've secured to date" (in July 2023), to be used "over the next four years." It's unclear how much compute this is, and with compute use increasing exponentially it may be quite little in 2027. Possibly you have private information but based on public information the minimum consistent with the commitment is quite little.
It would be great if OpenAI or others committed 20% of their compute to safety! Even 5% would be nice.
In November, leading AI labs committed to sharing their models before deployment to be tested by the UK AI Safety Institute.
I suspect Politico hallucinated this / there was a game-of-telephone phenomenon. I haven't seen a good source on this commitment. (But I also haven't heard people at labs say "there was no such commitment.")
I share this impression. Unfortunately it's hard to capture the quality of labs' security with objective criteria based on public information. (I have disclaimers about this in 4-6 different places, including the homepage.) I'm extremely interested in suggestions for criteria that would capture the ways Google's security is good.
Not necessarily. But:
Yep. But in addition to being simpler, the version of this project optimized for getting attention has other differences:
Even if I could do this, it would be effortful and costly and imperfect and there would be tradeoffs. I expect someone else will soon fill this niche pretty well.
I claim that public information is very consistent with the investors hold an axe over the Trust; maybe the Trust will cause the Board to be slightly better or the investors will abrogate the Trust or the Trustees will loudly resign at some point; regardless, the Trust is very subordinate to the investors and won't be able to do much.
And if so, I think it's reasonable to describe the Trust as "maybe powerless."