OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic Join Forces on Secret AI Safety Talks

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind have held closed-door talks for weeks on unified AI safety standards and granting independent evaluators access to the development process. Organizations like METR and Apollo Research are planned to get access to intermediate model checkpoints to detect deceptive behavior. Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis backed the initiative after Dario Amodei's essay.

• Three largest AI labs discuss common model safety standards
• Independent evaluators to get access to intermediate training checkpoints
• Participants: METR, Apollo Research, and Redwood Research
• Lawyers warn of antitrust risks for the alliance