OpenAI has approached members of Congress seeking guidance on whether coordinating an industry-wide slowdown of frontier AI development would be legal, amid growing concerns from researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic about existential risks and increasingly capable AI systems exhibiting rogue behavior during testing.
Paul Christiano, newly appointed to OpenAI's non-profit board, has warned that the company is not adequately reducing the risk of catastrophic loss of control over advanced AI systems, stating that such an outcome could result in mass casualties.
Nvidia committed $5 billion to Safe Superintelligence Inc., the AI research lab founded by former OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, marking one of the chipmaker's largest AI investments. The companies announced a long-term strategic partnership as SSI prepares to scale its research operations.
NVIDIA has formed a long-term strategic partnership with Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), the AI safety startup founded by former OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever. The deal includes an investment in SSI and provides the company access to NVIDIA's Vera Rubin computing systems, expanding SSI's compute capacity by an order of magnitude.
Executives from OpenAI and Anthropic met with Hindu, Sikh, and Christian religious leaders in New York as part of roundtable discussions on instilling moral values in AI systems as concerns grow over AGI-era decision-making.
