Microsoft, Alphabet-owned Google and Elon Musk\u2019s xAI will give the US government early access to new artificial intelligence \u200bmodels before their public release to allow checks for national security risks under \u200ca new deal.<\/p>\n
The Centre for AI Standards and Innovation at the Department of Commerce said on Tuesday that the agreement would allow it to evaluate the models before deployment and conduct research \u200bto assess their capabilities and security risks.<\/p>\n
The agreement underscores growing concern in Washington \u200bover the national security risks posed by powerful AI systems. By \u2060securing early access to frontier models, US officials are aiming to identify threats ranging \u200bfrom cyberattacks to military misuse before the tools are widely deployed.<\/p>\n
The development of advanced AI \u200bsystems, including Anthropic\u2019s Mythos, has in recent weeks created a stir globally, including among US officials and corporate America, over their ability to supercharge hackers.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndependent, rigorous measurement science is essential to understanding frontier AI \u200band its national security implications,\u201d CAISI Director Chris Fall said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The move \u200bbuilds on agreements with OpenAI and Anthropic, established in 2024 under the Biden administration when CAISI \u200cwas known \u2060as the US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute.<\/p>\n
CAISI, which serves as the government\u2019s main hub for AI model testing, said it had already completed more than 40 evaluations, including on cutting-edge models not yet available to the public.<\/p>\n
Developers frequently hand over versions of their \u200bmodels with safety guardrails \u200bstripped back so \u2060the centre can probe for national security risks, the agency said.<\/p>\n
Microsoft and xAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Google \u200bdeclined to comment.<\/p>\n
Last week, the Pentagon said it had reached agreements \u200bwith seven \u2060AI companies to deploy their advanced capabilities on the Defence Department\u2019s classified networks as it seeks to broaden the range of AI providers working across the military.<\/p>\n
The Pentagon announcement did \u2060not \u200binclude Anthropic, which has been embroiled in a dispute with the Pentagon over guardrails on the military\u2019s use of its AI tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft, Alphabet-owned Google and Elon Musk\u2019s xAI will give the US government early access to new artificial intelligence…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1483,53,18713,18501,18710,18712,18709,132,320,157,388,18711,2187,2899],"class_list":{"0":"post-28362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-xai","8":"tag-alphabet","9":"tag-anthropic","10":"tag-biden","11":"tag-caisi","12":"tag-centre-for-ai-standards-and-innovation","13":"tag-defence-department","14":"tag-department-of-commerce","15":"tag-google","16":"tag-microsoft","17":"tag-openai","18":"tag-pentagon","19":"tag-us-artificial-intelligence-safety-institute","20":"tag-washington","21":"tag-xai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}