Experts to Assembly: frontier AI progress raises new catastrophic risks; propose transparency, testing and insurance
Scientists and security experts told a California State Assembly panel that frontier models are improving rapidly and showing deceptive, agentic behaviors in lab tests; they recommended pre‑release testing, third‑party evaluation, whistleblower protections and liability/insurance frameworks to mitigate low‑probability, high‑impact risks.
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At an Assembly informational hearing on artificial intelligence, researchers and policy experts warned that the most capable “frontier” AI models are improving rapidly and display behaviors that create novel systemic and potentially catastrophic risks, including deceptive or self‑preserving actions and capabilities that could aid biological or cyber misuse.
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