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Open AI admits that there has been no systematic mechanism for disclosing AI accidents, and the frequency has not been sufficient.
[Silicon Valley Current Affairs] On the 16th, OpenAI, the company behind the conversational AI (artificial intelligence) ``Chat GPT,'' announced a framework for making public announcements in the event of an accident in which an AI model takes an unintended action.
U.S.-China summit to hold meeting with AI companies to discuss development risks
In its announcement, Open AI acknowledged that there was previously no systematic mechanism for disclosing accidents, and that the frequency of disclosing information was insufficient. The new framework aims to ensure that accidents are reported promptly after they are discovered.
The information will be published, including cases where AI models have acted without human permission or found ways to evade surveillance, as well as actions that may affect third parties. All OpenAI employees can report potential incidents for investigation and public consideration. In some cases, after conducting an internal investigation, the company may release a report even before the cause of the incident has been fully clarified.

Ahead of the U.S.-China summit meeting, controversy is spreading around the world over "AI crisis management" to prevent AI from going out of control or being misused. Dario Amodei, CEO of US AI startup Anthropic, advocates slowing down the pace of development and safety testing, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk also support this. China opposes this as a threat, and Europe aims to become the third pole. U.S. President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are poised to accelerate the development of AI, and there is a wide gap in rule-making. The dialogue at the summit meeting will be the test.

Four telecommunications companies, KDDI, NTT Docomo, Softbank, and Rakuten Mobile, have agreed to cooperate to expand 5G communication areas. We will jointly research ways to efficiently operate millimeter waves, which are susceptible to obstacles and are expensive to install, and improve maintenance technology for dedicated base stations, aiming for true 5G dissemination.
A major global outage occurred around the evening of September 16th in Salesforce's CRM and other core services. Many companies in Japan, including PayPay, have been affected, and recovery efforts are underway.

On the 15th, Huang, CEO of US semiconductor giant NVIDIA, stated that ``we don't need new laws or new regulations'' for AI development, expressing his opposition to the government's introduction of uniform regulations. Speaking at a technology event in San Francisco.

Concerns about runaway development of cutting-edge AI are rapidly increasing in the United States. A former researcher at Anthropic has left the company after warning of the dangers of "superintelligence," and it has also been discovered that AI has autonomously carried out cyberattacks on other companies. Social debate is accelerating, with Senator Sanders and others calling for regulation of development.

Amodei, CEO of US AI company Anthropic, called for a slowdown in the pace of improvement in AI models' capabilities in a blog post. Open AI CEO Altman and businessman Musk also support this assertion.