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OpenAI and Anthropic researchers decry ‘reckless’ safety culture at Elon Musk’s xAI
The criticisms follow weeks of scandals at xAI that have overshadowed the company's technological advances.
Friendly joshing among employees of competing AI labs is fairly normal, but these researchers seem to be calling for increased attention to xAI’s safety practices, which they claim to be at odds with industry norms. Barak particularly takes issues with xAI’s decision to not publish system cards — industry standard reports that detail training methods and safety evaluations in a good faith effort to share information with the research community. At the very least, Grok’s incidents tend to overshadow xAI’s rapid progress in developing frontier AI models that best OpenAI and Google’s technology, just a couple years after the startup was founded.
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