Musk urges top AI labs, Chinese companies to test each other's models amid calls for slowdown

SpaceX founder Elon Musk addresses members of the media during a press conference announcing new developments of the Crew Dragon reusable spacecraft, at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, Oct. 10, 2019.Philip Pacheco | Afp | Getty ImagesElon Musk called for the top artificial intelligence companies to work together and test each other's models before they're released to the public, as some of the industry's leaders warn of the technology's dangers and push for greater government regulation. Speaking at the All-in Summit in Los Angeles on Monday, the SpaceX CEO said his company, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and "three or four of the leading Chinese companies" should let rivals run a "test harness" on their models to evaluate their safety. "So, you know, instead of grading your own homework, you would at least have competitors grading your homework and raising the alarm if they see concerns," Musk said. The debate around how to regulate AI has intensified after the leaders of Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies spent the weekend warning about the technology's harms and called for a slowdown in model development. Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were among the tech le...