{"id":241141,"date":"2026-07-07T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/global-ai-industry-falls-short-on-safety-think-tank-warns\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T16:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:28:28","slug":"global-ai-industry-falls-short-on-safety-think-tank-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/global-ai-industry-falls-short-on-safety-think-tank-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Global AI industry falls short on safety, think tank warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/science\/articles\/global-ai-industry-falls-short-201400634.html\">Global AI industry falls short on safety, think tank warns<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/science\/articles\/global-ai-industry-falls-short-201400634.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/science\/articles\/global-ai-industry-falls-short-201400634.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-07 16:14:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.yahoo.com\">www.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Anthropic, a US artificial intelligence lab, scored the highest in a safety ranking released by the Future of Life Institute but the industry overall still fails to adequately combat &#8220;existential&#8221; threats according to the report.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Meta moved up two places to fourth place while xAI dropped three spots to seventh place.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Mistral, a French AI firm, placed last in the ranking. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The rankings involved assessment across six distinct categories: risk assessment, current harms, safety frameworks, existential safety, governance and accountability, and information sharing. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The report highlighted that &#8220;existential&#8221; threats like pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI) models which reach human-level intelligence, are not adequately addressed by the industry.  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The report also noted that several companies which once banned their technology from being used for military purposes, have now reversed their decision, including Anthropic.  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Despite constructive attempts, the report stated that industry efforts to address AI safety remain &#8216;entirely inadequate&#8217;.  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Lastly, it was reported that the US government used Anthropic&#8217;s technology in military operations in Venezuela and Iran, although the company faced a temporary Pentagon ban over disagreements on AI safety.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global AI industry falls short on safety, think tank warns https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/science\/articles\/global-ai-industry-falls-short-201400634.html Publish Date: 2026-07-07 16:14:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/en\/afp.com\/7ebce53b8fb12872b3dbe9e70bcb178f","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[23,22,20],"class_list":["post-241141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-agi","tag-artificial-general-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241143,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241141\/revisions\/241143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}