• Magic.dev

    Released a responsible scaling policy, entitled their “AGI Readiness Policy.”

  • Meta

    Updated privacy policy to permit the use of personal user information (photos, posts, etc.) to train Meta AI models.

  • Why has Cognition fallen behind the industry standard for AI Safety?

    Why has Cognition fallen behind the industry standard for AI Safety?

    Amid fierce debates surrounding AI safety, it’s easy to forget that most disagreements concern what particular risks we face and how to address them. Very few people will try to argue that there are no risks or that serious caution isn’t warranted. In light of this, there is an emerging consensus among policy experts (and…

  • Sign the Cognition petition

    Sign the Cognition petition

    The Midas Project has written a petition to Cognition, asking them to adopt an industry standard risk-evaluation policy. There are two places you can sign our petition — on our website directly, and on Change.org. (Don’t worry about signing on both — we will be combining the signature totals and cross-checking to remove duplicates before…

  • Tweet at Cognition

    Tweet at Cognition

    Despite outreach from The Midas Project, Cognition has failed to provide any information about when they will release a comprehensive risk-evaluation policy — or if they will at all. Perhaps they think they can get away with this on account of the fact that they’re still relatively under-the-radar. It’s time for the public to demand…

  • Email Cognition

    Email Cognition

    Despite outreach from The Midas Project, Cognition has failed to provide any information about when they will release a comprehensive risk-evaluation policy — or if they will at all. Perhaps they think they can get away with this on account of the fact that they’re still relatively under-the-radar. It’s time for the public to demand…

  • Why are AI employees demanding a “right to warn” the public?

    Why are AI employees demanding a “right to warn” the public?

    This week, another warning flag was raised concerning the rapid progress of advanced artificial intelligence technology. This time, it took the form of an open letter authored by current and former employees at some of the world’s top AI labs — and cosigned by leading experts including two of the three “godfathers of AI.” This…

  • Cohere

    Changed commitment for access reviews from “quarterly” to “periodic”

  • How financial interests took over OpenAI

    How financial interests took over OpenAI

    How did an idealistic nonprofit, hoping to ensure advanced AI “benefits humanity as a whole,” turn into a $82 billion mega-corporation cutting corners and rushing to scale commercial products? In 2015, OpenAI announced its existence to the world through a post on their blog. In it, they write: “OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research…

  • OpenAI

    Reported to have abandoned former promise to dedicate 20% of compute resources to advanced AI alignment.

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