Last week, in a one of a kind effort, Open AI signed an MOU with the US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (US AISI), part of the larger US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology. In this juncture of AI’s revolution, this collaboration is aimed at furthering OpenAI’s commitment for safety, transparency and human centric innovation – by building a framework that the world can contribute to. This would enable the US AI Safety Institute to get early access to test and evaluate future models prior to its public release. Anthropic has also agreed to sign this partnership.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, took to X (formerly Twitter), to underscore the significance of this partnership. “We are happy to have reached an agreement with the US AI Safety Institute for pre-rlease testing of our future models,” said Altman, saying that this is important, and suggested for this to happen at a national level. “US needs to continue to lead!”
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