Miles Brundage#20
Two weeks ago we asked a simple question: would SpaceX's prospectus show that the company is prepared to manage the unprecedented risks of frontier AI? The prospectus is now public, and the answer is a clear no.
SpaceX tells investors it relies on AI for the vast majority of its addressable market and intends to keep scaling Grok toward "multiple trillions of parameters" and a "step change" in intelligence. Yet across 277 pages, it says almost nothing about the biological-weapon, cyberattack, and loss-of-control risks that a chorus of AI experts warn are central challenges for the development of the technology.
SpaceX is asking investors to fund a technology its own founder called "far more dangerous than nukes." It does so with safety practices that lag notably behind those of its peers, and that have already led to high profile incidents of harm. They have not done nearly enough to provide investors or the public assurance that those harms will not be dramatically magnified if their AI models become far more capable. This is true of all frontier AI developers, but xAI's lack of investment in basic safety infrastructure stands out even relative to its peers.
Read our full update addressing the prospectus linked below.
