Elon Musk wants the most advanced AI models to be reviewed before they’re released—but he doesn’t want the government to be the one reviewing them.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO said the leading AI companies should work together to police themselves and flag safety issues related to the cutting-edge models they are releasing at a lightning pace.
“The most immediate thing that we could do is to have the leading AI companies at least just meet—have some sort of call—once every few weeks and just discuss any safety and security issues,” he said during an interview with the Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes published Thursday.
Musk said the government should only take action if a company flagged a security issue that it was not working to address. Otherwise, with a week or two of early access to review new models, “competitors can keep each other honest,” he said.
“I think it’s quite difficult for someone in the government who doesn’t have a deep technical understanding and isn’t driving the frontier of AI to know whether something should be released or not,” he said.
