Frontier Model Forum Announcement

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic have established the Frontier Model Forum to create industry-wide safety standards and evaluations to ensure the responsible development and deployment of frontier AI models. This initiative aims to bridge the gap between government efforts and industry practice by providing a vehicle for cross-organizational collaboration on AI safety.

Key Objectives of the Frontier Model Forum

The Frontier Model Forum focuses on three primary areas of action over the coming year to mitigate the risks associated with advanced AI systems:

1. Identifying Best Practices

The Forum will promote the sharing of knowledge and best practices among industry leaders, governments, civil society, and academia. The primary goal is to establish safety standards and practices that mitigate a wide range of potential risks associated with frontier AI models.

2. Advancing AI Safety Research

The Forum intends to support the AI safety ecosystem by identifying and coordinating research on the most critical open questions. Key areas of technical focus include:

• Adversarial robustness: Ensuring models are resilient to malicious inputs.
• Mechanistic interpretability: Understanding the internal workings of the model.
• *Scalable oversight: Managing the safety of increasingly complex systems.
• Independent research access: Providing pathways for external verification.
• Emergent behaviors and anomaly detection: Identifying unexpected capabilities of models.

Initially, the Forum will prioritize the development and sharing of a public library of technical evaluations and benchmarks for frontier AI models.

3. Facilitating Information Sharing

The Forum will establish secure, trusted mechanisms for sharing information regarding AI safety and risks among companies, governments, and stakeholders. This process will follow established best practices in responsible disclosure, drawing from the existing frameworks used in the cybersecurity industry.

Industry Perspectives on AI Governance

Leading AI labs have emphasized the necessity of collective action to ensure AI remains under human control and benefits society:

"Companies creating AI technology have a responsibility to ensure that it is safe, secure, and remains under human control. This initiative is a vital step to bring the tech sector together in advancing AI responsibly..." — Brad Smith, Vice Chair & President, Microsoft

"It is vital that AI companies—especially those working on the most powerful models—align on common ground and advance thoughtful and adaptable safety practices..." — Anna Makanju, Vice President of Global Affairs, OpenAI

"Anthropic believes that AI has the potential to fundamentally change how the world works. We are excited to collaborate with industry, civil society, government, and academia to promote safe and responsible development of the technology." — Dario Amodei, CEO, Anthropic

"We—re excited to work together with other leading companies, sharing technical expertise to promote responsible AI innovation." — Kent Walker, President, Global Affairs, Google & Alphabet