Amazon enters AI safety fray, calls for "rigorous testing," safeguards
Amazon said AI models should be released only after rigorous testing and safeguards, while declining to back a broader slowdown or say if it will act.
- Amazon weighed in on Silicon Valley's AI safety debate on Wednesday, stating labs should release models only when they are safe and fully tested, but stopped short of calling for an industry-wide slowdown.
- Following Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's nearly 4,000-word essay on Saturday calling for slower AI development, the heads of OpenAI, DeepMind, and Microsoft agreed to a more measured approach, marking rare industry unity on safety.
- The Seattle firm develops AI through Amazon Web Services and an AGI unit powering Alexa, while providing infrastructure via Bedrock. "We don't see it as a choice between progress and safety," a company spokesperson told Reuters.
- On Tuesday, the CEOs of Nvidia and Meta distanced themselves from other developers, arguing that individual companies bear sole responsibility for assessing and controlling AI risks to mankind.
- Concerns have reached the White House, though President Donald Trump dismissed safety worries as a hoax. "The only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART PRESIDENT," he said.
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The Independent (US)Amazon says AI needs ‘strong safeguards’ in place before being released
Calls for guardrails come amid warnings about the existential threat posed by artificial intelligence
Amazon has stated its principle that artificial intelligence (AI) models must be released to the market only after sufficient safety verification has been completed. However, it drew a line against arguments to uniformly slow down the pace of AI development. On the 17th (local time), Amazon spokesperson Tom Parnell released an email statement asserting that technological advancement and safety should not be viewed as a trade-off. He stated that …
Amazon Says AI Models Should Be Released When ‘Ready and Safe’
Amazon.com Inc. said artificial intelligence models should be released only after rigorous testing, weighing in on the debate about the pace of AI development after top labs called for a slowdown following safety lapses.
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