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Which tech companies are taking AI risk seriously?
Tech companies are locked in an all-out race to develop and deploy advanced AI systems. There’s a lot of money to be made, and indeed, plenty of opportunities to improve the world. But there are also serious risks — and racing to move as quickly as possible can make detecting and averting these risks a…
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Magic.dev has finally released a risk evaluation policy. How does it measure up?
Big news: the AI coding startup Magic.dev has released a new risk evaluation policy this week. Referred to as their “AGI Readiness Policy” and developed in collaboration with the nonprofit METR, this announcement follows in the footsteps of Responsible Scaling Policies (RSPs) released by companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google Deepmind. So how does it…
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Why has Cognition fallen behind the industry standard for AI Safety?
Amid fierce debates surrounding AI safety, it’s easy to forget that most disagreements concern what particular risks we face and how to address them. Very few people will try to argue that there are no risks or that serious caution isn’t warranted. In light of this, there is an emerging consensus among policy experts (and…
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Sign the Cognition petition
The Midas Project has written a petition to Cognition, asking them to adopt an industry standard risk-evaluation policy. There are two places you can sign our petition — on our website directly, and on Change.org. (Don’t worry about signing on both — we will be combining the signature totals and cross-checking to remove duplicates before…
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Tweet at Cognition
Despite outreach from The Midas Project, Cognition has failed to provide any information about when they will release a comprehensive risk-evaluation policy — or if they will at all. Perhaps they think they can get away with this on account of the fact that they’re still relatively under-the-radar. It’s time for the public to demand…
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Email Cognition
Despite outreach from The Midas Project, Cognition has failed to provide any information about when they will release a comprehensive risk-evaluation policy — or if they will at all. Perhaps they think they can get away with this on account of the fact that they’re still relatively under-the-radar. It’s time for the public to demand…
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Why are AI employees demanding a “right to warn” the public?
This week, another warning flag was raised concerning the rapid progress of advanced artificial intelligence technology. This time, it took the form of an open letter authored by current and former employees at some of the world’s top AI labs — and cosigned by leading experts including two of the three “godfathers of AI.” This…
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How financial interests took over OpenAI
How did an idealistic nonprofit, hoping to ensure advanced AI “benefits humanity as a whole,” turn into a $82 billion mega-corporation cutting corners and rushing to scale commercial products? In 2015, OpenAI announced its existence to the world through a post on their blog. In it, they write: “OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research…
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OpenAI’s Model Spec Feedback
On May 8th, OpenAI released its Model Spec, which is a sort of charter that describes how its AI models should behave, prioritize between different values, and adhere to rules for safety, and legality. They’ve opened a form to proactively solicit feedback from the public on this document. The Midas Project is glad to see…
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How AI Chatbots Work: What We Know, and What We Don’t
AI chatbots (such as Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT) have already transformed our world. On the surface, they appear remarkably capable of friendly, natural conversations. But below the surface lies sophisticated artificial intelligence driving their abilities, and a great deal of uncertainty about exactly how they work and what they are capable of. In this…
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