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AI regulation, safety, governance, and platform policy.
Frontier AI regulation: Managing emerging risks to public safety
Advanced AI models hold the promise of tremendous benefits for humanity, but society needs to proactively manage the accompanying risks. In this paper, we focus on what we term “frontier AI” models: highly capable foundation models that could possess...
Governance of superintelligence
Now is a good time to start thinking about the governance of superintelligence—future AI systems dramatically more capable than even AGI.
Topics: Policy
Entities: Policy
Our approach to AI safety
Ensuring that AI systems are built, deployed, and used safely is critical to our mission.
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Forecasting potential misuses of language models for disinformation campaigns and how to reduce risk
OpenAI researchers collaborated with Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology and the Stanford Internet Observatory to investigate how large language models might be misused for disinformation purposes. The collaboration included...
Scaling laws for reward model overoptimization
In reinforcement learning from human feedback, it is common to optimize against a reward model trained to predict human preferences. Because the reward model is an imperfect proxy, optimizing its value too much can hinder ground truth performance, in...
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DALL·E 2 pre-training mitigations
In order to share the magic of DALL·E 2 with a broad audience, we needed to reduce the risks associated with powerful image generation models. To this end, we put various guardrails in place to prevent generated images from violating our content policy.
Topics: ModelsPolicyInfrastructure
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A research agenda for assessing the economic impacts of code generation models
OpenAI is developing a research program to assess the economic impacts of code generation models and is inviting collaboration with external researchers. Rapid advances in the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) trained on code have made it...
Will Hurd joins OpenAI’s board of directors
OpenAI is committed to developing general-purpose artificial intelligence that benefits all humanity, and we believe that achieving our goal requires expertise in public policy as well as technology. So, we’re delighted to announce that Congressman Will...
Understanding the capabilities, limitations, and societal impact of large language models
On October 14th, 2020, researchers from OpenAI, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and other universities convened to discuss open research questions surrounding GPT‑3, the largest publicly-disclosed dense language model at...
Improving verifiability in AI development
We’ve contributed to a multi-stakeholder report by 58 co-authors at 30 organizations, including the Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Mila, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and...
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Why responsible AI development needs cooperation on safety
We’ve written a policy research paper identifying four strategies that can be used today to improve the likelihood of long-term industry cooperation on safety norms in AI: communicating risks and benefits, technical collaboration, increased transparency,...
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