International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI (Interim Report)

Y Bengio, S Mindermann, D Privitera… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This is the interim publication of the first International Scientific Report on the Safety of
Advanced AI. The report synthesises the scientific understanding of general-purpose AI--AI …

Considerations for governing open foundation models

R Bommasani, S Kapoor, K Klyman, S Longpre… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Foundation models (eg, GPT-4 and Llama 3.1) are at the epicenter of artificial intelligence
(AI), driving technological innovation and billions of dollars in investment. This has sparked …

Open problems in technical ai governance

A Reuel, B Bucknall, S Casper, T Fist, L Soder… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
AI progress is creating a growing range of risks and opportunities, but it is often unclear how
they should be navigated. In many cases, the barriers and uncertainties faced are at least …

Risk thresholds for frontier AI

L Koessler, J Schuett, M Anderljung - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.14713, 2024 - arxiv.org
Frontier artificial intelligence (AI) systems could pose increasing risks to public safety and
security. But what level of risk is acceptable? One increasingly popular approach is to define …

Safety cases for frontier AI

MD Buhl, G Sett, L Koessler, J Schuett… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
As frontier artificial intelligence (AI) systems become more capable, it becomes more
important that developers can explain why their systems are sufficiently safe. One way to do …

How to design an AI ethics board

J Schuett, AK Reuel, A Carlier - AI and Ethics, 2024 - Springer
The development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) systems poses significant
risks to society. To reduce these risks to an acceptable level, AI companies need an effective …

Computing Power and the Governance of Artificial Intelligence

G Sastry, L Heim, H Belfield, M Anderljung… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Computing power, or" compute," is crucial for the development and deployment of artificial
intelligence (AI) capabilities. As a result, governments and companies have started to …

Transformer model generated bacteriophage genomes are compositionally distinct from natural sequences

J Ratcliff - NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Novel applications of language models in genomics promise to have a large impact on the
field. The megaDNA model is the first publicly available generative model for creating …

Frontier AI developers need an internal audit function

J Schuett - Risk Analysis, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This article argues that frontier artificial intelligence (AI) developers need an internal audit
function. First, it describes the role of internal audit in corporate governance: internal audit …

Exploring scaling trends in llm robustness

NHR Howe, M Zając, IR McKenzie… - ICML 2024 Next …, 2024 - openreview.net
Language model capabilities predictably improve from scaling the model's size and training
data. Motivated by this, increasingly large language models have been trained, yielding an …