OpenAI, Google, Anthropic Join Forces on AI Safety Standards

OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are working to launch an AI safety standards body by late this year or early next, per The Information, with frontier model builders self-regulating without government oversight. It would back third-party testing, standardize incident reporting, define voluntary commitments and set auditor qualifications; critics fear it could sideline open-source developers.

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