Five labs were asked what they would do if a model got loose. The best answer scored 3 out of 5
Guidelight AI Standards published an assessment on 22 August of what Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta and xAI have publicly written down about controlling their own systems, based on documents available as of 18 August. Six practices were graded from 0 to 5: logging and monitoring what models do internally, halting a system after a burst of flagged misbehaviour, letting independent third parties audit the controls and publish, and having an actual plan for containing a model that goes off the rails. No company scored above 3 on any single practice, and most scores were 2 or lower. OpenAI came out highest at 3 out of 5; Anthropic and Meta scored lowest. Guidelight's chief scientist Steven Adler said he was surprised how little the companies have said about handling a very serious incident.
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