And for all the millions of dollars spent on AI safety non-profits, advocacy organizations, and other research efforts, almost none of it has been devoted specifically to the issues implicated in Raine. Indeed, we have more robust methods for measuring and mitigating LLM-enabled bioweapon development risk than we do for the rather more mundane, but far more visceral, issue of how a chatbot should deal with a mentally troubled teenager. This critique applies to my own writing as well.
Dean Ball, one of the authors of the US AI Action Plan just released by the Trump administration, weighs in on Raine v. OpenAI and its potential to be a landmark case that defines how individuals seek redress against AI labs.