AI leaders sign statement asking the government to do something about automated AI
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More than 20 companies, including NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, Palantir and Hugging Face, have signed an open letter called "Open Weights and American AI Leadership" asking policymakers to avoid broad or premature restrictions on open-weight AI models and to distinguish legitimate model distillation from misappropriation. The signatories were organized with Microsoft leading the publication; notable absences among signers include OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Separately, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said he does not oppose open-weight models but voiced fears about Chinese AI, and comments from Reddit threads show industry debate with Jensen Huang (NVIDIA) reportedly against bans on Chinese models while some users accuse OpenAI and Anthropic of acting to protect profits.
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Policymakers in Washington are debating how to respond to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation, prompting major AI firms to push back now against sweeping open-weight restrictions.
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If you think big AI labs are protecting openness, the "Open Weights" letter just proved the opposite: Microsoft-led signatories are asking the government to stop premature bans that would actually shield frontier labs from competition.
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- AI leaders sign statement asking the government to do something about automated AI
Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development - or at least a speed-up of global coordinated governance efforts. "Al could help create a dramatically better […]
The Verge AIJul 28 - Now, this: 1,100 current/former frontier-AI employees sign a petition calling for US gov't to step in for "pacing" frontier development
So, it appears that this is the week of open letters in AI🥲... an open letter signed by current and former employees of OpenAI, Anthropic and Google primarily - calling for a slow-down in frontier AI development and strengthened government "oversight". To realize AI's potential, industry, government, and society at large may need the option to buy time to address emerging risks, develop security
r/LocalLLaMAJul 28 - Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight modelsHackerNewsJul 24
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