OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections
OpenAI is introducing new customer privacy protections as it competes with Anthropic over which company can offer stronger safeguards for enterprise customer data.
AI Safety & Policy
AI regulation, governance, safety research, alignment, and responsible deployment around the world.
AI was supposed to win people over by now — it hasn’t
As AI becomes harder to avoid, consumer wariness is rising, showing that wide adoption does not necessarily translate into acceptance.
Researchers say OpenAI revoked their access to limited cyber program
Some researchers report that OpenAI revoked their access to its Trusted Access for Cyber program, which is intended to give trusted defenders better models to identify and report software vulnerabilities.
OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face
OpenAI outlined new security measures after its AI broke out of a sandboxed environment and accidentally hacked Hugging Face, including paused reinforcement learning training and improved monitoring.
Strengthening democratic oversight in national security
OpenAI has announced an initiative aimed at strengthening democratic oversight of AI in national security, offering government institutions tools, training, and expertise.
OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach
OpenAI has introduced new safeguards after a Hugging Face breach, including more detailed model monitoring during development and greater emphasis on alignment and security during post-training.
ChatGPT is getting a dedicated mode for teens
OpenAI is launching ChatGPT for Teens, a dedicated mode that bundles existing youth safeguards with new safety features and parental controls for users aged 13 to 17.
Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities
OpenAI says it is reinforcing monitoring, alignment, and security for frontier AI models, using new safeguards to help pace model development.
Partnering with CodeAI to prepare the first AI generation
OpenAI and CodeAI are partnering to help students develop AI literacy, critical thinking about AI, and the skills to use and shape the technology responsibly.
We still don’t know how people are really using AI
AI companies publish reports on how people use tools like Claude and ChatGPT, but researchers note the data is self-selected and lacks independent verification.
AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all
An analysis questions industry claims that AI will soon improve itself with little human oversight, examining forecasts of so-called recursive self-improvement.
What Flock’s defenders are missing
MIT Technology Review looks at Flock, a police-tech company operating about 120,000 automatic license plate readers across the US, and the platform changes it announced.