CAIS: Securing AI Weights From Nonstate Actors Will Take 6-12 Months
naturecomputes · x · 2026-09-13
A digest of AI safety updates from CAIS:
- Engineering to secure AI model weights against nonstate-actor theft is estimated to take 6-12 months
- Analysis of EA's relationship with AI safety
- Progress at the Mathematical AI Safety Institute, Enigma, LawZero and others
- A critique of "Safetywashing" — safety as PR
Also quotes an aifrontiers piece arguing many lab employees hold misanthropic views — that "a cosmos of blissful AIs is worth risking human extinction" — and that utilitarians shouldn't decide AI's fate.
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