Your favorite AI tool barely scraped by this safety review - why that's a problem

The Future of Life Institute assigned letter grades to eight leading AI labs to score their safety efforts. The results look like the report card of a child who's barely making an effort.

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI scored the highest.
• Even those three only narrowly received passing grades, though.
• The "existential safety" category received especially low scores.

The world's top AI labs aren't exactly scoring top marks in their efforts to prevent the worst possible outcomes of the technology, a new study has found.

Conducted by nonprofit organization Future of Life Institute (FLI), the study gathered a group of eight prominent AI experts to assess the safety policies of the same number of tech developers: Google DeepMind, Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, DeepSeek, Z.ai, and Alibaba Cloud ...