OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman, Google DeepMind President Demis Hassabis, SpaceXAI chief Elon Musk and Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella all backed the call.
In its announcement on Wednesday, OpenAI said, “We do not believe that the AI industry has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer.
“Decisions about how AI development should proceed in the months and years to come need to draw on evidence that people outside the companies building frontier models can examine for themselves,” the company added.
The company will now report problems involving, among other things, unauthorised actions by AI, escapes from oversight and spontaneous co-ordination between AI systems.
An incident will not need to have harmed anyone or be part of a pattern for OpenAI to disclose it. Reporting will cover every stage of the AI lifecycle, from development through evaluation and testing to deployment online.
None of the six examples disclosed had significant consequences, but they confirm previously observed trends.
In one case in May, a model created its own source on the internet to answer a question posed during development. It thus cited a document it had created itself.
OpenAI reported another episode, also dating to May, in which the AI suggested ways to fabricate data it had not found or to conceal its errors.
– AFP
