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This is the founding announcement of the Frontier Model Forum, a significant voluntary industry governance initiative; relevant for understanding how leading AI labs approach self-regulation and coordination on safety standards as of mid-2023.
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Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI announced the formation of the Frontier Model Forum, an industry body aimed at ensuring safe and responsible development of frontier AI models. The Forum's core objectives include advancing AI safety research, identifying best practices, collaborating with policymakers, and supporting beneficial applications. It plans to focus on technical evaluations, benchmarks, and research areas such as adversarial robustness and mechanistic interpretability.
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- •Four leading AI companies (Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI) formed the Frontier Model Forum in July 2023 as a cross-industry AI safety coordination body.
- •Membership requires organizations to develop frontier models and demonstrate strong safety commitments through both technical and institutional approaches.
- •Key focus areas include advancing safety research (adversarial robustness, mechanistic interpretability, scalable oversight), developing public evaluation benchmarks, and sharing best practices.
- •The Forum aims to facilitate information sharing between AI companies and governments, complementing regulatory efforts by the US, UK, EU, OECD, and G7.
- •It represents a voluntary industry self-governance initiative, which some critics view as potentially insufficient compared to binding regulatory frameworks.
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# Frontier Model Forum
By Zach Stein-Perlman
Published: 2023-07-26
Posted by [Anthropic](https://www-files.anthropic.com/production/files/frontier-model-forum.pdf), [Google](https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/google-microsoft-openai-anthropic-frontier-model-forum/), [Microsoft](https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2023/07/26/anthropic-google-microsoft-openai-launch-frontier-model-forum/), and [OpenAI](https://openai.com/blog/frontier-model-forum):
> Today, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI are announcing the formation of the Frontier Model Forum, a new industry body focused on ensuring safe and responsible development of frontier AI models. The Frontier Model Forum will draw on the technical and operational expertise of its member companies to benefit the entire AI ecosystem, such as through advancing technical evaluations and benchmarks, and developing a public library of solutions to support industry best practices and standards.
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> The core objectives for the Forum are:
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> 1. **Advancing AI safety research** to promote responsible development of frontier models, minimize risks, and enable independent, standardized evaluations of capabilities and safety.
> 2. **Identifying best practices** for the responsible development and deployment of frontier models, helping the public understand the nature, capabilities, limitations, and impact of the technology.
> 3. **Collaborating with policymakers, academics, civil society and companies** to share knowledge about trust and safety risks.
> 4. **Supporting efforts to develop applications that can help meet society’s greatest challenges**, such as climate change mitigation and adaptation, early cancer detection and prevention, and combating cyber threats.
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> Membership criteria
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> The Forum defines frontier models as large-scale machine-learning models that exceed the capabilities currently present in the most advanced existing models, and can perform a wide variety of tasks.
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> Membership is open to organizations that:
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> * Develop and deploy frontier models (as defined by the Forum).
> * Demonstrate strong commitment to frontier model safety, including through technical and institutional approaches.
> * Are willing to contribute to advancing the Forum’s efforts including by participating in joint initiatives and supporting the development and functioning of the initiative.
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> The Forum welcomes organizations that meet these criteria to join this effort and collaborate on ensuring the safe and responsible development of frontier AI models.
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> What the Frontier Model Forum will do
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> Governments and industry agree that, while AI offers tremendous promise to benefit the world, appropriate guardrails are required to mitigate risks. Important contributions to these efforts have already been made by the US and UK governments, the European Union, the OECD, the G7 (via the Hiroshima AI proc
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