Elon Musk’s AI firm, xAI, has missed a self-imposed deadline to publish a finalized AI security framework, as famous by watchdog group The Midas Project.
xAI isn’t precisely recognized for its sturdy commitments to AI security because it’s generally understood. A latest report discovered that the corporate’s AI chatbot, Grok, would undress images of ladies when requested. Grok can be significantly extra crass than chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT, cursing with out a lot restraint to talk of.
Nonetheless, in February on the AI Seoul Summit, a worldwide gathering of AI leaders and stakeholders, xAI revealed a draft framework outlining the corporate’s strategy to AI security. The eight-page doc laid out xAI’s security priorities and philosophy, together with the corporate’s benchmarking protocols and AI mannequin deployment concerns.
As The Midas Project famous in a weblog publish on Tuesday, nevertheless, the draft solely utilized to unspecified future AI fashions “not presently in improvement.” Moreover, it didn’t articulate how xAI would determine and implement threat mitigations, a core element of a doc the corporate signed on the AI Seoul Summit.
In the draft, xAI mentioned that it deliberate to launch a revised model of its security coverage “inside three months” — by May 10. The deadline got here and went with out acknowledgement on xAI’s official channels.
Despite Musk’s frequent warnings of the hazards of AI gone unchecked, xAI has a poor AI security monitor report. A latest examine by SaferAI, a nonprofit aiming to enhance the accountability of AI labs, discovered that xAI ranks poorly amongst its friends, owing to its “very weak” threat administration practices.
That’s to not counsel different AI labs are faring dramatically higher. In latest months, xAI rivals together with Google and OpenAI have rushed security testing and have been sluggish to publish mannequin security stories (or skipped publishing stories altogether). Some consultants have expressed concern that the seeming deprioritization of security efforts is coming at a time when AI is extra succesful — and thus doubtlessly harmful — than ever.
