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Beatrice Nolan

Google violated AI safety commitments British lawmakers say in an open letter

Demis Hassabis. (Credit: Nathan Laine—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

A group of 60 U.K. lawmakers has signed an open letter accusing Google DeepMind of violating its commitments to AI safety with the release of Gemini 2.5 Pro. The letter, published by political activist group PauseAI, accuses the AI company of breaking the Frontier AI Safety Commitments it signed at an international summit in 2024 by not releasing the AI model with key safety information.

At an international summit cohosted by the U.K. and South Korea in February 2024, Google and other signatories promised to “publicly report” their models’ capabilities and risk assessments, as well as disclose whether outside organizations, such as government AI safety institutes, had been involved in testing.

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