AI firms' safety practices 'fail to meet global norms'

The safety practices of major artificial intelligence companies, such as Anthropic, OpenAl, xAI and Meta, are “far short of emerging global standards,’ according to a new edition of Future of Life Institute’s AI safety index released last week.

- ZAHEER KACHWALA

The institute said the safety evaluation, conducted by an independent panel of experts, found that while the companies were busy racing to develop superintelligence, none had a robust strategy for controlling such advanced systems.

The study comes amid heightened public concern about the societal impact of smarter-than-human systems capable of reasoning and logical thinking, after several cases of suicide and self-harm were tied to Al chatbots.