Linkpost: 7 A.I. Companies Agree to Safeguards After Pressure From the White House

AI Use Note: Main body text entirely human written. Claude (Opus 4.8) helped develop models of animal life histories in the appendix. Cross-posted from Good Structures. Executive Summary * Animal advocates sometimes make claims like “there are X of this animal...

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Let's taboo the V-word

lincolnq·4d ago·8m read

“How long have you been v*g*n?” This is one of the most common icebreakers at animal protection events. It’s a baseline assumption, and it mostly holds true: if you’re out advocating for animals not to be tortured or abused, realistically these days you are v**n, or close. And it makes for good conversation. It seems fairly safe to assume when you meet strangers. But this assumption is hurting the movement in a way which we don’t always notice: someone new comes into the sp...

Spiro: an update 2.5 years on and a fundraising ask for expansion

Habiba Banu·1d ago·6m read

Summary Back in November 2023 I posted here to launch Spiro and raise our first $198k. Two and a half years later this is an update and a fundraiser for the next step. The short version: we've now reached over-5,900 people with TB preventive medicine, including over 3,000 children under five years old. Our early results have held up well an...

Recent opportunities to take action

EA Organisation Updates thread: July 2026

Dane Valerie·3d ago·1m read

Help us launch AI safety university groups by referring potential founders

Jason Chin🔸·2h ago·4m read

Save the date: Swiss AI Safety Days 2026 (7-8 November, ETH Zurich)

Andre Santos 🔸, patrickwidmann, mariuswenk·4h ago·1m read

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Pulling out highlights from PDF of the voluntary commitments that AI safety orgs agreed to:

The following is a list of commitments that companies are making to promote the safe, secure, and transparent development and use of AI technology. These voluntary commitments are consistent with existing laws and regulations, and designed to advance a generative AI legal and policy regime. Companies intend these voluntary commitments to remain in effect until regulations covering substantially the same issues come into force. Individual companies may make additional commitments beyond those included here.
Scope: Where commitments mention particular models, they apply only to generative models that are overall more powerful than the current industry frontier (e.g. models that are overall more powerful than any currently released models, including GPT-4, Claude 2, PaLM 2, Titan and, in the case of image generation, DALL-E 2).

1) Commit to internal and external red-teaming of models or systems in areas including misuse, societal risks, and national security concerns, such as bio, cyber, and other safety areas.
2) Work toward information sharing among companies and governments regarding trust and safety risks, dangerous or emergent capabilities, and attempts to circumvent safeguards
3) Invest in cybersecurity and insider threat safeguards to protect proprietary and unreleased model weights
4) Incent third-party discovery and reporting of issues and vulnerabilities
5) Develop and deploy mechanisms that enable users to understand if audio or visual content is AI-generated, including robust provenance, watermarking, or both, for AI-generated audio or visual content
6) Publicly report model or system capabilities, limitations, and domains of appropriate and inappropriate use, including discussion of societal risks, such as effects on fairness and bias
7) Prioritize research on societal risks posed by AI systems, including on avoiding harmful bias and discrimination, and protecting privacy
8) Develop and deploy frontier AI systems to help address society’s greatest challenges