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Beatrice Nolan, Emily Forlini

OpenAI may have violated California’s AI safety law with latest model releases, AI watchdog says

Photo of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaking at a G20 meeting. (Credit: Sean Rayford—Getty Images)

An AI industry watchdog is accusing OpenAI of violating California’s AI safety law multiple times in the past year, including with the release of its latest model, Astra.

A new analysis from the Midas Project—a nonprofit that describes itself as a watchdog “working to ensure that AI benefits everybody, not just the companies developing it”—alleges that OpenAI has broken California’s newly-enacted AI safety law at least three times this year.

The allegations concern OpenAI’s failure to publish a required risk assessment for the very danger the company has lately been sounding alarms about: AI systems slipping out of human control.

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