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OpenAI confirmed that discussions about AI safety have been ongoing for weeks with Anthropic and Google DeepMind, alongside calls to establish an independent standards body and a mechanism for verifying the safety of advanced models. This comes amid warnings about antitrust-law risks and opposition within the U.S. administration to tighter regulation out of concern for maintaining competition with China.
Dario Amodei proposed three mechanisms to “slow the pace of progress” in artificial intelligence models, including independent monitors within companies, shared safety standards, and international coordination. Anthropic, for its part, is committing to providing expanded access to external evaluators, while the feasibility of the proposals and their potential conflict with competition laws remain open questions.