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AI giants are shying from safety pledges and pushing voluntary model testing

By Frank Hersey ( September 25, 2025, 13:17 GMT | Comment) -- AI developers aren't bound by any rulebooks to share their models for evaluation, but last year they did make very public voluntary commitments on model safety testing and transparency. Civil society worries that Google DeepMind is failing in those commitments through a novel way to release new models, while OpenAI and Anthropic are focused on building cosier relationships with testing bodies. The big picture is one of attempts to keep strict US and UK rules at bay.There may be no regulatory requirement to do so, but major AI developers OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind continue to share their models with national-level safety testing bodies in the US and UK....

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