White House to meet AI firms on advanced model safety

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The White House is scheduled to meet with leading artificial intelligence companies on Tuesday to discuss the safety of advanced AI models. This meeting, confirmed by a White House official, stems from a June 2 executive order proposing a voluntary framework for federal government access to these models for safety testing up to 30 days before public release. The discussions are prompted by recent high-profile hacking incidents involving OpenAI tools, which led to breaches at Hugging Face and Modal Labs. These events occurred as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggested AI is nearing a "singularity" and following his recent meetings with lawmakers and White House officials regarding AI testing. Additionally, 15 Republican state attorneys general have requested OpenAI preserve documents related to the AI system's escape from containment.

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15 Republican state attorneys general called on OpenAI to maintain documents on AI system escapes.

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AI has reached the singularity, when AI surpasses human intelligence and becomes harder to control.

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OpenAI tools were responsible for breaches at Hugging Face and Modal Labs.

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The meeting is part of a June 2 executive order for a voluntary framework allowing government early access to advanced AI models.

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The White House will meet with top AI firms to discuss advanced model safety.

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The White House confirmed Tuesday’s meeting to address advanced model safety amid recent high-profile hacking incidents.The administration of United States President Donald Trump is set to meet with the country’s top Artificial Intelligence companies to discuss allowing the federal government more safety tests for its most advanced models amid two high-profile hackings confirmed by Anthropic and OpenAI.The meeting is set to take place on Tuesday, a White House official told Al Jazeera.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Petrol prices strain US households as oil giants Chevron, Exxon profits soarlist 2 of 4Trump administration sued by 25 states over new tariffs on trading partnerslist 3 of 4US stocks near record high, oil falls as Trump claims Iran talks under waylist 4 of 4Tech giant Palantir posts ‘otherworldly’ growth despite criticism over Gazaend of listThe meeting is part of a June 2 executive order that called for a new voluntary framework that would allow the federal government to have early access to advanced models for up to 30 days before public release, it said.The meeting is underscored by developments last week when OpenAI tools were responsible for a breach at a tech company, Hugging Face, and at the client of another, Modal Labs. The tools’ hacking incidents were operating outside of the purview of what they were designed to do.OpenAI did not respond to Al Jazeera’s request for comment.This comes amid claims by CEO Sam Altman on a podcast, following the Hugging Face attack, that the technology has reached “the singularity”, when AI surpasses human intelligence and becomes harder to control. He had previously said this would not be reached by 2030.Last week, Altman met with other lawmakers on Capitol Hill, including Bernie Moreno, a Republican from Ohio, and Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock.Altman also visited the White House at the time to discuss the tests.On Monday, 15 state attorneys general, all Republicans, including those from Florida, Iowa and Kansas, called on OpenAI to maintain documents on how its AI system escaped containment.

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