OpenAI, in partnership with Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft, has announced the formation of a new industry body, the Frontier Model Forum. This collaborative initiative aims to foster the safe and responsible development of frontier AI systems. These are large-scale machine-learning models that surpass the capabilities of current advanced models, pushing the boundaries of what AI can achieve.
The Frontier Model Forum is set to leverage the technical and operational expertise of its member companies to benefit the entire AI ecosystem. This includes advancing technical evaluations and benchmarks, and developing a public library of solutions to support industry best practices and standards. The goal is to create a collaborative environment where organizations can work together to ensure the safe and responsible development of frontier AI models.
AI models
Membership in the Frontier Model Forum is open to organizations that meet specific criteria. The Forum encourages these organizations to collaborate on ensuring the safe and responsible development of frontier AI models. This is a clear indication of the Forum’s commitment to fostering a collaborative environment that promotes the responsible use of AI.
The Frontier Model Forum acknowledges the need for appropriate guardrails to mitigate risks associated with AI. It recognizes the contributions already made by various governments and organizations in this regard and aims to build on these efforts. Over the next year, the Forum will focus on three key areas to support the safe and responsible development of frontier AI models.
Strategy and priorities
To guide its strategy and priorities, the Frontier Model Forum plans to establish an Advisory Board. It will also set up key institutional arrangements including a charter, governance, and funding. This will ensure that the Forum is well-equipped to tackle the challenges and opportunities that come with the development of frontier AI models.
The Forum intends to consult with civil society and governments on its design and ways to collaborate. It seeks to support and contribute to existing government and multilateral initiatives, demonstrating its commitment to a multi-stakeholder approach to AI development.
In addition to this, the Frontier Model Forum plans to build on the work of existing industry, civil society, and research efforts across each of its workstreams. It will explore ways to collaborate with and support these multi-stakeholder efforts, further emphasizing its commitment to a collaborative and inclusive approach to the development of frontier AI models.
The Frontier Model Forum represents a significant step forward in the responsible development of frontier AI models. By bringing together some of the biggest names in the industry, the Forum is well-positioned to make a significant impact on the future of AI and as more information is released we will keep you up to speed is always.
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What the Frontier Model Forum will do?
OpenAI explains more about the creation of the Frontier Model Forum and what it will do.
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.
Source: OpenAI
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