The US Commerce Department removes from a public webpage details of an agreement involving Microsoft, Google and xAI to undergo security testing for new “frontier” AI models before release, Reuters reports and other outlets reference. The original page, published on 5 May, said the companies would provide newly developed models to government scientists for evaluation of potential safety and security risks. According to the reporting, the page has since been deleted, removing previously published information about the terms and participants in the arrangement. The outlets describe the deletion as affecting the availability of the agreement’s posted specifics, rather than reporting any change to the underlying commitments themselves. The companies and the US government have not uniformly provided additional public clarification in the cited accounts. The removal comes after increased public attention on how companies and governments coordinate to assess risks from advanced AI systems prior to public deployment.
US Commerce Department removes details of Microsoft, Google and xAI AI security test deal
The US Commerce Department removes from a public webpage details of an agreement involving Microsoft, Google and xAI to undergo security testing for new “frontier” AI models before release, Reuters re...
- The US Commerce Department posted details on 5 May about an agreement involving Microsoft, Google and xAI.
- The agreement involves submitting new frontier AI models to government scientists for security/safety testing before release.
- The webpage containing those details is deleted or removed from the Commerce Department’s website.
- Reporting attributes the removal to actions by the US Commerce Department, as described by Reuters and repeated by other outlets.
The US Commerce Department has removed from its website the details of an agreement under which Microsoft, Google, and xAI agreed to submit new AI models to government scientists for security testing before release, Reuters reported on Monday. The original page, posted on 5 May, said the three companies would hand over their frontier AI […] This story continues at The Next Web
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