Different regulation (or other legislation) might also make other sorts of transparency good ideas, imo.
A mandate or subsidy for doing safety research might make it a good idea to require transparency for more safety-relevant AI research.
Regulation aimed at improving company practices (e.g. at security against weight theft, or preventing powergrab risks like access to helpful-only models above some threshold, or following some future safety practices suggested by some board of experts, or [to be meta] good transparency practices) should generate some transparency about how companies are doing (at cybersecurity or improper internal use mitigation or safety best practices or transparency).
If safety cases are actually being evaluated and you don’t get to do all the research you want if the safety is questionable, then the landscape for transparency of safety cases (or other safety data that might have a different format) looks pretty different.
I’m actually less clear on how risk reports would tie in to regulation—maybe they would get parted out to reports on how the company is doing at various risk-mitigation practices, if those are transparent?
Different regulation (or other legislation) might also make other sorts of transparency good ideas, imo.
A mandate or subsidy for doing safety research might make it a good idea to require transparency for more safety-relevant AI research.
Regulation aimed at improving company practices (e.g. at security against weight theft, or preventing powergrab risks like access to helpful-only models above some threshold, or following some future safety practices suggested by some board of experts, or [to be meta] good transparency practices) should generate some transparency about how companies are doing (at cybersecurity or improper internal use mitigation or safety best practices or transparency).
If safety cases are actually being evaluated and you don’t get to do all the research you want if the safety is questionable, then the landscape for transparency of safety cases (or other safety data that might have a different format) looks pretty different.
I’m actually less clear on how risk reports would tie in to regulation—maybe they would get parted out to reports on how the company is doing at various risk-mitigation practices, if those are transparent?