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Employees at Top AI Labs Fear Safety Is an Afterthought, Report Says
'The level of concern...is difficult to overstate,' the co-author of the government-commissioned report tells TIME.
Workers at some of the world’s leading AI companies harbor significant concerns about the safety of their work and the incentives driving their leadership, a report published on Monday claimed. “We have served, through this project, as a de-facto clearing house for the concerns of frontier researchers who are not convinced that the default trajectory of their organizations would avoid catastrophic outcomes,” Jeremie Harris, the CEO of Gladstone and one of the authors of the report, tells TIME. “By the private judgment of many of their own technical staff, the security measures in place at many frontier AI labs are inadequate to resist a sustained IP exfiltration campaign by a sophisticated attacker,” the report states.
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