Menin asks companies to promise agents will comply with guardrails

So I want to now ask each of the companies to assure the public under oath that your AI agents will always comply with the safety guardrails that you impose on them

and that you each have said are necessary to prevent catastrophic harm.

I'm going to start with Ms.

Dwyer, please.

As I've said, OpenAI prioritizes safety, and we evaluate our systems against multiple dimensions of safety, and we monitor our safeguards after deployment.

It is, it's not possible for me to

commit or guarantee that any technology is without risk, but I can commit that OpenAI

is taking every step it can to ensure that the development of our systems, as well as their deployment, is conducted safely.

Okay, so that again, it does not sound like you are saying that the agents will always comply with the safety guardrails.

I'm going to move on to Mr.

Graham.

Yeah, what we are committed to and how we've designed the safety processes that we put in place is to try to handle exactly this.

What we're committed to is trying to define the industry best standard for safety and pushing that ever higher.

But candidly, the science of doing this is fundamentally hard and unsettled.

From the beginning of the company, we have tried to publish the best research we can and be as transparent with the entire world on many cases where things can go wrong.

It is for that reason that we push for ever better safety standards for regulation and for discourse like this.

It's candidly unsettled now, and this is why we need to be talking about it.

Mr.

Cahill?

Speaker, thank you very much.

If I may for a moment, I was trying to raise my hand the previous round, but again, technical difficulties.

I just wanted to, for the record, in relation to your previous question, I just wanted to signal also that I don't know the answer to that question.

I'm not the right person, but I would like to be able to come back to you afterwards with an answer, if that's okay.

I do just want to say, and I appreciate you each have your own.

And look, I was a regulatory attorney at a large company.

I understand that people have their sphere of work that they work in.

But to not know if the company has catastrophic risk insurance when you have a product that some of your own founders are saying could cause cataclysmic risk is troubling at best.

But yes, please do.

We would appreciate you getting back to the company on that.

And then if you want to answer the question about will you assure the public that your AI agents will always comply with the safety guardrails that you impose on them?

Thank you, Speaker.

What I can guarantee is our commitment to developing and deploying our AI offerings safely.

We have every incentive to address safety, and people will only embrace AI if they trust it's safe.

Miss Friend.

Google similarly has as our ultimate goal reliability and safety assurance from our systems.

To promise perfection would not be possible with any product on the market, but our goal is to get as close to that standard as possible.

And so we are constantly improving our products and our safety practices to ensure that our users are safe.

I don't think we're asking for perfection.

We're just asking for accountability, transparency, and safety overall.

Yes, ma'am.

Okay.