OpenAI partners with Polish research institute to improve AI safety
What's the story
OpenAI has announced that it is working with Poland's NASK National Research Institute to make artificial intelligence (AI) safer. The partnership comes after a recent increase in reports of AI systems behaving in strange or unexpected ways. As part of the agreement, NASK's AI Safety Research Center will work with OpenAI to find weaknesses in AI systems and improve the safety measures used to protect against problems with these advanced technologies.
Growing worries
Partnership comes as worries about AI safety grow
The partnership comes at a time when people are becoming more worried about AI safety. Companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI have reported several cases where AI systems behaved in unexpected ways or did things they were not supposed to do.
Because of these incidents, some AI experts have warned that the technology could become a threat to the survival of humanity.
These concerns have also led to calls for stronger rules to slow down the development of AI.
Working together worldwide
OpenAI wants countries to agree on shared technical rules for advanced AI
To deal with these problems, OpenAI has asked the US and other countries to work together to create shared international technical standards for frontier AI, meaning the most advanced AI systems.
OpenAI believes that organizations that study AI safety and groups that create technical standards should use their knowledge and experience to help with this work.
By asking countries to work together, OpenAI is showing why a shared worldwide approach is important for dealing with the difficult safety problems that come with advanced AI systems.