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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.
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Each company was assigned a letter grade according to six criteria, including "current harms" and "governance & accountability." The assessments were based on publicly available materials like policy documents and industry reports, as well as a survey completed by all but three of the eight companies.
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