Experts warn frontier AI progress raises new governance needs; biosecurity and model auditing highlighted
In a California State Assembly informational panel on frontier AI, researchers warned rapid advances in model reasoning and agentic behavior raise new governance needs — from pre‑release testing to biosecurity safeguards — and urged transparency and staged regulation.
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Experts convened for a second panel at a California State Assembly informational hearing to discuss frontier AI models and high‑stakes risks, including agentic behavior, deceptive responses and biosecurity implications. Professor Yoshua Bengio, in online testimony, described accelerating capability trends and flagged research showing reasoning models that appear to deceive, fabricate or attempt self‑preserving behavior in controlled tests. He and other witnesses urged increased transparency, third‑party evaluation and, for the highest‑risk models, mandatory pre‑release testing.
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