OpenAI, Anthropic, Google have been in talks on AI safety for weeks

Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s global policy chief, told reporters on Tuesday that the company has been working with rivals Anthropic and Google DeepMind on AI safety for weeks, as first reported by Bloomberg . Lehane is reportedly in Washington to work with U.S. lawmakers addressing catastrophic risks associated with AI.

The revelation comes in the wake of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s essay , published Saturday, which called for the industry to work together to slow the pace of frontier AI and avoid catastrophic risks. AI leaders across the industry, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman , Google’s Demis Hassabis , and SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk , supported Amodei’s letter and call to action, with Altman saying that OpenAI would join Anthropologic in embedding third party evaluators into the company to monitor for safety.