Google, OpenAI and Anthropic's SAFA AI safety body may launch by year-end
TorturedPoet30 · reddit · 2026-09-25
Per The Information, Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are shaping up SAFA (Standards Authority for Frontier AI), a frontier AI safety body that could launch by end of this year or early next. Key details:
- Sriram Krishnan and Arati Prabhakar have been floated as possible CEOs; Condoleezza Rice and David Friedberg as possible chairs.
- The companies are debating whether SAFA should test frontier models itself or just set standards.
- After a FINRA-like proposal stalled at the White House, SAFA may start as an independent industry effort, later seeking a public-private partnership.
- It could coexist with the Frontier Model Forum.
- Other AI labs are reportedly skeptical of an initiative led by these three labs.
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