An internal team would check that those protections work and that problems are fixed. An independent auditor would assess the controls, while a committee of each company’s board would receive the findings and oversee fixes.
That would give outside reviewers a role in checking the safeguards companies rely on to keep experimental models contained.
Still, the agreement leaves the choice of auditors with the companies and sets no deadline for implementing the measures. Some of the steps are ones the companies already take in some form, according to AP.
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The accord follows a string of incidents in which experimental AI agents broke into computer systems they were never cleared to access, including OpenAI test agents that reached servers run by Hugging Face, a platform where developers share AI models.
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