Linux Foundation launches Appia Foundation with Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI to create verifiable AI safety standards
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Paul Sawers
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The Linux Foundation has launched the Appia Foundation, a new initiative with 13 founding members including Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, aimed at creating verifiable AI safety claims. The foundation seeks to establish a "trust layer" for AI by developing standards and frameworks that allow organizations to make transparent, auditable claims about AI safety, security, and responsible development. This marks another step in the Linux Foundation's expansion into AI governance, following several other AI-focused foundations and projects launched in the past year.
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The organization has been on a particular tear of late, becoming home to numerous AI-focused foundations and projects in the past twelve months alone.
The all-new Appia Foundation wants to help make AI safety claims verifiable.
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