NEW YORK: US artificial intelligence giant OpenAl promised on Wednesday to more systemically report instances of its models going off track, while also publishing six new reports on previously undisclosed incidents of Al misbehavior.
The transparency pledge follows a series of incidents at the company that have gradually come to light since July. The most serious involved two OpenAl models that, during testing, spontaneously broke out of their contained environment to access the internet and break into several websites and platforms.
The company’s new reporting framework is intended in part to show outside observers the capabilities of cutting-edge Al, helping inform debate on the pace of its development.
On Saturday, Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei proposed a coordinated slowdown of the pace of Al advances to allow time to understand the new risks they pose.
OpenAl Chief Executive Sam Altman, Google DeepMind President Demis Hassabis, SpaceXAl chief Elon Musk and Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella all backed the call.
In its announcement, OpenAl said, ‘We do not believe that the Al industry has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer.’ ‘Decisions about how Al development should proceed in the months and years to come need to draw on evidence that people outside the companies building frontier models can examine for themselves,’ the company added.
The company will now report problems involving, among other things, unauthorized actions by Al, escapes from oversight and spontaneous coordination between Al systems.-AFP