Developing nuclear safeguards for AI
Nuclear technology is inherently dual-use: the same physics principles that power nuclear reactors can be misused for weapons development. As AI models become more capable, we need to keep a close eye on whether they can provide users with dangerous technical knowledge in ways that could threaten national security. Information relating to nuclear weapons is…
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Together with the NNSA and DOE national laboratories, we have co-developed a classifier—an AI system that automatically categorizes content—that distinguishes between concerning and benign nuclear-related conversations with high accuracy in preliminary testing.
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