News Summary

• AI researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and a broad coalition of companies and nonprofit groups, are calling for deeper investigation into techniques for monitoring the thoughts of AI reasoning models.
• The paper marks a moment of unity among many of the AI industry’s leaders in an attempt to boost research around AI safety.
• It comes at a time when tech companies are caught in a fierce competition — which has led Meta to poach top researchers with million-dollar offers.
• The goal of position papers like this is to signal boost and attract more attention to this nascent area of research.