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OpenAI Makes Big Announcement 🗣️

OpenAI Makes Big Announcement 🗣️

The Future AI
December 19, 2023

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OpenAI released its framework for addressing safety in its models, which would allow the Board of Directors to overrule CEO Sam Altman on releasing future products if they are deemed unsafe. This is an important move with respect to new services and governance. Also, Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue has big goals for the open-source AI community in 2024. You’re going to want to check them out. We’ve got all the most important details for you.

Let’s dive in!

⚡ TODAY’S BREAKDOWN

OpenAI says its Board has the power to overrule its CEO on safety of future products
Hugging Face CEO reveals goals for 2024
EU's AI Act isn't actually a done deal yet?
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🤖 AI x TECH

OpenAI: Board Has Final Say on Safety of Future Products

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OpenAI published its framework for addressing safety in its models, which would allow the Board of Directors to overrule CEO Sam Altman on releasing future products if they are deemed unsafe.

“OpenAI’s recently announced ‘preparedness’ team said it will continuously evaluate its AI systems to figure out how they fare across four different categories — including potential cybersecurity issues as well as chemical, nuclear and biological threats — and work to lessen any hazards the technology appears to pose,” Bloomberg News reports. “Specifically, the company is monitoring for what it calls ‘catastrophic’ risks, which it defines in the guidelines as ‘any risk which could result in hundreds of billions of dollars in economic damage or lead to the severe harm or death of many individuals.’”

OpenAI said it will also create an advisory group to evaluate safety reports for the board. Aleksander Madry, who is head of the preparedness body, said the new group will review Madry’s team’s work and make recommendations to Altman and the board, which has undergone changes since the CEO’s brief ouster.

“Madry said his team will repeatedly evaluate OpenAI’s most advanced, unreleased AI models, rating them ‘low,’ ‘medium,’ ‘high,’ or ‘critical’ for different types of perceived risks,” Bloomberg News also reports. “The team will also make changes in hopes of reducing potential dangers they spot in AI and measure their effectiveness. OpenAI will only roll out models that are rated ‘medium’ or ‘low,’ according to the new guidelines.”

Madry said the safety framework is the product of months of work.

“AI is not something that just happens to us that might be good or bad,” he told the outlet. “It’s something we’re shaping.”

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📈 AI X BUSINESS

Hugging Face CEO Reveals Goals for 2024

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Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue told Quartz in a newly-published interview that he wants 10 million people to use the AI startup’s services by the end of 2024 and will boost efforts to build more community and collaboration into the platform.

Delangue said these objectives are part of the company’s plan to democratize AI. Hugging Face, a key voice for open-source AI development, counts over 50,000 organizations using its services. Developers have access to over 300,000 models, 100,000 applications, and 50,000 datasets.

“We need more companies and organizations to share their models and datasets publicly and in open-source so that everyone can understand and build AI themselves,” Delangue told Quartz.

The company, which has been called the GitHub for AI, reached a $4.5 billion valuation in August after scoring $235 million in funding.

The round included funds from Salesforce, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, and IBM.

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🌎 AI x POLICY

EU's AI Act Isn't Actually a Done Deal Yet?

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Negotiations surrounding the EU's AI Act are growing increasingly complicated as a handful of countries as holding off on green lighting the historic regulations until more details emerge, according to a report.

“At a debriefing on the deal held among EU national governments on Friday, four of the largest countries — Germany, France, Italy and Poland — insisted they would not sign off on the deal until a final text is ready,” Axios reports. “France's digital minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, has taken to referring to the Dec. 8 deal as merely a "step" in the negotiation process, warning that France will continue to negotiate in favor of innovators and national security interests on the final details.”

However, European Parliament member Eva Maydell believes the EU’s AI Act will ultimately get ratified.

"The entry into force will vary gradually based on the type of use case," she told the news outlet.

Some tech organizations have warned that the sweeping rules could be "potentially disastrous" for innovation. "Regrettably speed seems to have prevailed over quality, with potentially disastrous consequences for the European economy. The negative impact could be felt far beyond the AI sector alone," said Daniel Friedlaender, senior vice president of the Computer & Communications Industry Association.

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