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OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic launch the Frontier Model Forum to coordinate on AI safety standards, research, and information sharing among industry, government, and civil society. The initiative focuses on identifying best practices, advancing AI safety research, and establishing secure mechanisms for sharing safety-related information.

We’re forming a new industry body to promote the safe and responsible development of frontier AI systems: advancing AI safety research, identifying best practices and standards, and facilitating information sharing among policymakers and industry.
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# Frontier Model Forum Source: [https://openai.com/index/frontier-model-forum/](https://openai.com/index/frontier-model-forum/) Governments and industry agree that, while AI offers tremendous promise to benefit the world, appropriate guardrails are required to mitigate risks\. Important contributions to these efforts have already been made by the US and UK governments, the European Union, the OECD, the G7 \(via the Hiroshima AI process\), and others\. To build on these efforts, further work is needed on safety standards and evaluations to ensure frontier AI models are developed and deployed responsibly\. The Forum will be one vehicle for cross\-organizational discussions and actions on AI safety and responsibility\. The Forum will focus on three key areas over the coming year to support the safe and responsible development of frontier AI models: - **Identifying best practices:**Promote knowledge sharing and best practices among industry, governments, civil society, and academia, with a focus on safety standards and safety practices to mitigate a wide range of potential risks\. - **Advancing AI safety research:**Support the AI safety ecosystem by identifying the most important open research questions on AI safety\. The Forum will coordinate research to progress these efforts in areas such as adversarial robustness, mechanistic interpretability, scalable oversight, independent research access, emergent behaviors and anomaly detection\. There will be a strong focus initially on developing and sharing a public library of technical evaluations and benchmarks for frontier AI models\. - **Facilitating information sharing among companies and governments:**Establish trusted, secure mechanisms for sharing information among companies, governments and relevant stakeholders regarding AI safety and risks\. The Forum will follow best practices in responsible disclosure from areas such as cybersecurity\. **Kent Walker, President, Global Affairs, Google & Alphabet said:**“We’re excited to work together with other leading companies, sharing technical expertise to promote responsible AI innovation\. We're all going to need to work together to make sure AI benefits everyone\.” **Brad Smith, Vice Chair & President, Microsoft said**: “Companies creating AI technology have a responsibility to ensure that it is safe, secure, and remains under human control\. This initiative is a vital step to bring the tech sector together in advancing AI responsibly and tackling the challenges so that it benefits all of humanity\.” **Anna Makanju, Vice President of Global Affairs, OpenAI said:**“Advanced AI technologies have the potential to profoundly benefit society, and the ability to achieve this potential requires oversight and governance\. It is vital that AI companies–especially those working on the most powerful models–align on common ground and advance thoughtful and adaptable safety practices to ensure powerful AI tools have the broadest benefit possible\. This is urgent work and this forum is well\-positioned to act quickly to advance the state of AI safety\.” **Dario Amodei, CEO, Anthropic****said:**“Anthropic believes that AI has the potential to fundamentally change how the world works\. We are excited to collaborate with industry, civil society, government, and academia to promote safe and responsible development of the technology\. The Frontier Model Forum will play a vital role in coordinating best practices and sharing research on frontier AI safety\.”

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