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Published by the Frontier Model Forum—a coalition of major AI companies including Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic—this brief represents industry-level guidance on safety framework components, relevant to those studying voluntary AI governance and self-regulatory approaches.

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This Frontier Model Forum issue brief outlines the key components that leading AI developers should incorporate into frontier AI safety frameworks, providing a structured overview of practices for responsible development and deployment of advanced AI systems. It serves as an industry-level reference for what constitutes a comprehensive safety framework, covering evaluation, mitigation, and governance elements.

Key Points

•Identifies core components of frontier AI safety frameworks including risk assessment, evaluation protocols, and mitigation strategies
•Represents a collaborative industry perspective from major AI developers on standardizing safety practices
•Covers both technical safety measures and organizational/governance structures needed for responsible frontier AI development
•Provides a reference point for policymakers and developers seeking to implement or evaluate AI safety frameworks
•Reflects emerging industry consensus on what responsible deployment of frontier models should entail

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 Issue Brief: Components of Frontier AI Safety Frameworks

 
 
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 Frontier Model Forum

 

 
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 8th November 2024 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 Safety frameworks have recently emerged as an important tool for frontier AI safety. By specifying capability and/or risk thresholds, safety evaluations and mitigation strategies for frontier AI models in advance of their development, safety frameworks position frontier AI developers to be able to address potential safety challenges in a principled and coherent way. Both government and industry recognized the importance of safety frameworks through the Frontier AI Safety Commitments announced at the AI Seoul Summit in May 2024. 

 Yet safety frameworks remain a relatively nascent concept. Only a handful of firms have published safety frameworks to date, and until recently few research organizations had published on the topic. While there is an emerging consensus about the function and core components of safety frameworks, there is still a clear need for further research, 1 related norms, and established guidance to enable implementation.

 This brief proposes a set of core components for inclusion in safety frameworks. Drawn from the Frontier AI Safety Commitments as well as published member firm frameworks and expert input, this piece reflects a preliminary consensus among member firms about how to structure safety frameworks. However, we note other approaches may emerge in the future that also meet the Frontier AI Safety Commitments. We hope this brief will serve as a useful resource for broader discussion about how to develop frontier AI safety frameworks. Future briefs will explore key elements of safety frameworks in greater depth.

 Components of Safety Frameworks 

 Frontier AI safety frameworks are designed to enable developers to take a robust, principled, and coherent approach to anticipating and addressing the potential safety challenges posed by frontier AI. 

 At a high level, safety frameworks include the following components: 

 1. Risk Identification 

 Frontier AI safety frameworks are intended to manage potential severe threats to public safety and security. 2 To effectively manage these threats, safety frameworks should identify and analyze model risks stemming from advanced capabilities in chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons development and cyber attacks. 3 As the technology evolves and there is more research conducted on frontier AI risks, additional risk domains may emerge, such as systems with increasingly autonomous capabilities. However, there is not broad consensus yet about what these risk domains might or should be. 

 Firms should also explain how they plan to ensure an accurate picture of model risks and concerning capabilities, such as by carrying out threat modeling exercises. 4 

 2. Capability and

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