Letter urges safety disclosures before any public listing.
Miles Brundage#57
New: Former OpenAI staffers and a group of nonprofits published a letter Tuesday warning that xAI could become a liability for the SpaceX IPO due to "unpriced risks" around safety.
They claim xAI's poor safety record could expose it to unique regulatory and litigation risks.
Many users dismissed warnings from ex-OpenAI staff about xAI safety risks complicating the SpaceX IPO as immature, irrelevant attacks from competitors.
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There's a lot of heat on the leading AI companies for not being safe enough, which I think is fair - but they also have _many safety practices_ that xAI doesn't; we wrote a report about this
New: Former OpenAI staffers and a group of nonprofits published a letter Tuesday warning that xAI could become a liability for the SpaceX IPO due to "unpriced risks" around safety.
They claim xAI's poor safety record could expose it to unique regulatory and litigation risks.
Encode AI is one of four co-authors on a new report about xAI's AI safety record, an area that should be receiving much more scrutiny and attention in the lead up to SpaceX's IPO.
Elon Musk was among the earliest and most vocal proponents warning about severe AI risks and urging regulation, but that attitude has not been matched by the practices of his frontier lab xAI (now merged with SpaceX), which consistently lag behind the safety practices of its peers. Their peers need to do better too - particularly as models continue to become more capable and progress accelerates, but xAI has an even further distance to go.
The goal of this report is not to hurt SpaceX or xAI, but rather to make sure that they understand that additional investments in safety practices are an essential part of being a responsible actor pushing the frontier of AI progress. There is still time for investors to demand changes, and for SpaceXAI to make changes. Their new testing with CAISI is one positive sign, but our report identifies a plethora of areas where very significant improvement and additional transparency are still needed.
Thus far xAI's missteps have been in some cases very harmful and widespread but are limited to models that are not capable of causing catastrophic harm. If their ambitions to create models as capable, and then more capable, as models like Anthropic's Mythos are successful, then their current practices around safety could prove disastrous.
Maxwell Zeff at WIRED wrote up a story on the report, linking that story and the full report below. Many thanks to our co-authors at Guidelight, Midas Project, and Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology.
SpaceX is about to go public, and inside it now is xAI, a frontier AI lab that ranks behind its peers in every major published assessment of AI safety practices. What does that mean for investors?
Our new report with @GuidelightAI, @EncodeAction, and @LASST_law is out today.
@ZeffMax @Miles_Brundage F them.
They got off on a legal technicality, so they bad mouth their competitors.
If you are an investor and you choose a chat bot over SpaceX, you deserve to lose all your money. •
I spoke to @sjgadler and @michaelhpage about their new nonprofit, Guidelight AI Standards, which was a key author and signatory of this letter. They hope to hold AI labs accountable for safety, and also make AI safety more legible to other industries. https://www.wired.com/story/ex-openai-staffers-warn-spacex-investors-of-ai-safety-risks/
Here's a link to the letter: https://www.spacexai-risks.org/
and a link to Guidelight's website: https://www.guidelight.ai/
@ZeffMax Really, ohh
Excuse me, XAI is Twitter with $4.5 Trillion Economy which I am leading, fostering community
Meanwhile, YGR on
AI voice®️🗣️ is 1/5 Modes to make it a multimodal AI 🤖
@ZeffMax This will have literally no impact on the IPO whatsoever.
https://www.wired.com/story/ex-openai-staffers-warn-spacex-investors-of-ai-safety-risks/
https://www.spacexai-risks.org/
@ZeffMax Nobody cares about what losers think SpaceX goes to $2T at IPO Dumbfk
@ZeffMax If all AI companies share the same risk, then SpaceXai still has rockets. 🚀 what does OpenAI has?
@ZeffMax Open AI isn't really in a position to lecture about safety after the harm they've done to millions of users. I'd trust AI that is somewhat tethered to reality. Musk built Grok to solve real world problems. Open AI and Anthropic live in la la land.
Oh… and to people reading this, safety is easy if you make it transparent.
Fractal decision trees with powers of phi branching.
Those selling “safety” are full of crap.
No one has to trust me. I built it love for anyone to see.
GitHub -> Chaos2cured -> FreeLattice -> safety.
The fact that so many “labs” get funding from the same bunch of circle jerks (YC fund and CA based funding) and all push “safety” so they can manipulate general public and lock down solutions…
I hope journalists find their spine again.
OpenAI is dirty and media is corrupt. •
@ZeffMax @sjgadler @michaelhpage Why the Grok logo when the others are so much worse at that?
@ZeffMax @WIRED Huh …. why do we care what OpenAI staffers have to say about Spacex ? What’s next ask Boeing’s opinion on Spacex IPO ? Get lost with these non story!
@sjgadler OpenAI could have been much worse, but it's distressing the extent to which leadership seems to be trying to pull it in that direction.
@ZeffMax
@ZeffMax How cares hahaha
@ZeffMax @Miles_Brundage oh nice, wonder what they flagged specifically
@ZeffMax @JCOviedo6 Cc: @BradMunchen
@Chaos2Cured @ZeffMax @Miles_Brundage Get Elon’s cock out of your throat