It’s the first official day of the AI Safety Action Summit, and thus it’s also the day that the Seoul Commitments (made by sixteen companies last year to adopt an RSP/safety framework) have come due.
I’ve made a tracker/report card for each of these policies at www.seoul-tracker.org.
I’ll plan to keep this updated for the foreseeable future as policies get released/modified. Don’t take the grades too seriously — think of it as one opinionated take on the quality of the commitments as written, and in cases where there is evidence, implemented. Do feel free to share feedback if anything you see surprises you, or if you think the report card misses something important.
My personal takeaway is that both compliance and quality for these policies are much worse than I would have hoped. I believe many peoples’ theories of change for these policies gesture at something about a race to the top, where companies are eager to outcompete each other on safety to win talent and public trust, but I don’t sense much urgency or rigor here. Another theory of change is that this is a sort of laboratory for future regulation, where companies can experiment now with safety practices and the best ones could be codified. But most of the diversity between policies here is in how vague they can be while claiming to manage risks :/
I’m really hoping this changes as AGI gets closer and companies feel they need to do more to prove to govts/public that they can be trusted. Part of my hope is that this report card makes clear to outsiders that not all voluntary safety frameworks are equally credible.
It’s the first official day of the AI
SafetyAction Summit, and thus it’s also the day that the Seoul Commitments (made by sixteen companies last year to adopt an RSP/safety framework) have come due.I’ve made a tracker/report card for each of these policies at www.seoul-tracker.org.
I’ll plan to keep this updated for the foreseeable future as policies get released/modified. Don’t take the grades too seriously — think of it as one opinionated take on the quality of the commitments as written, and in cases where there is evidence, implemented. Do feel free to share feedback if anything you see surprises you, or if you think the report card misses something important.
My personal takeaway is that both compliance and quality for these policies are much worse than I would have hoped. I believe many peoples’ theories of change for these policies gesture at something about a race to the top, where companies are eager to outcompete each other on safety to win talent and public trust, but I don’t sense much urgency or rigor here. Another theory of change is that this is a sort of laboratory for future regulation, where companies can experiment now with safety practices and the best ones could be codified. But most of the diversity between policies here is in how vague they can be while claiming to manage risks :/
I’m really hoping this changes as AGI gets closer and companies feel they need to do more to prove to govts/public that they can be trusted. Part of my hope is that this report card makes clear to outsiders that not all voluntary safety frameworks are equally credible.