U.S.-led AI safety summit produces ‘mission statement,’ new tasks for NIST

The International Network of AI Safety Institutes summit this week in San Francisco has already produced a “joint mission statement” and $11 million in research funding on “synthetic content” risks, part of a U.S.-led process for developing consensus on methods for testing and researching safe and secure artificial intelligence.

The technical-level meeting of researchers from Europe, Asia and North America has also prompted the U.S. AI Safety Institute to announce a new leadership taskforce to coordinate research and testing...