Former OpenAI Board Member Calls for Audits of Top AI Companies

Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner said leading AI companies should be required to share information with the public about the capabilities and risks of the technology they’re building, and collect more data when these tools go awry.

AI companies should have to “share information about what they’re building, what their systems can do, and how they’re managing risks,” Toner said in a talk at the TED conference in Vancouver on Tuesday, one of her first public appearances since resigning from OpenAI’s board late last year. Toner also called for “AI auditors” to be allowed “to scrutinize their work so that the ...