— Do not cede your responsibilities to AI labs like mine, OpenAI’s Sam Altman said, according to Reuters. — We develop the technology, and the citizens of the free world make the rules.
The leaders gathered for the summit had been spooked by the US government’s shutdown of Mythos 5 just last Friday, with especially European nations worrying about reliance on US tech:
— From one day to the next [the USA] can turn off the switch, said French President Emmanuel Macron, reported by The Financial Times, as he, too, called for stronger regulation and cooperation.
There was also a strong push at the meetup to expand access beyond the USA to Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and the Mythos Preview model, used in a race to find cyber vulnerabilities in critical systems before the capabilities become widely available.
The meeting ended in an official joint statement that would task finance officials, regulators and cybersecurity experts with evaluating AI’s impact on financial stability, productivity and labor markets.
Read more: Reuters, The Financial Times, and CNBC.