Artificial Intelligence Security Forum Launches First Director, Chris Meserole

Chris Meserole, first director of the Artificial Intelligence Security Forum (photo: twitter @chrismerserole)

JAKARTA - The Artificial Intelligence Security Forum launched by companies including OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google, on Wednesday, October 25 appointed its first director. They said they would set up an advisory board in the coming months to help guide its strategy.

The Frontier Model Forum also said it had created funds to support research on this technology, with an initial funding commitment of more than $10 million from supporters and partners.

They said their first director would become Chris Meserole, who recently served as director of the new AI and technology initiative at the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank.

He joined the forum launched last July focusing on "border AI models" that exceed the capabilities present in today's most advanced models. Industry leaders have warned that such models can have sufficient dangerous capabilities to pose a serious risk to public safety.

Many countries are planning AI and UK regulations to host a global AI security summit in November, focusing on understanding the risks posed by this technology and how the national and international frameworks can be supported.

The Frontier Model Forum is supported by owners of ChatGPT, OpenAI, Microsoft, parent company Google, Alphabet, and startup AI Anthropic.