OpenAI to Allow Third-Party Safety Evaluations Across Model Lifecycle
OpenAI announced plans to let third-party groups conduct technical safety evaluations of its AI models during training, evaluation, and deployment phases. This marks an expansion of external oversight earlier in the development cycle, as reported by Bloomberg.
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Rachel Metz / Bloomberg : OpenAI says it plans to let third-party groups conduct technical safety evaluations of its AI models during the training, evaluation, and deployment phases — OpenAI plans to let third-party groups vet its artificial intelligence models for safety risks in earlier phases of the development cycle …
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