CP insufficient – without bug bounties and other testing mechanisms, the CP fails to create safe AI
KEVIN KLYMAN & SAYASH KAPOOR & SHAYNE LONGPRE (Federation of American Scientists) “A Safe Harbor For AI Researchers: Promoting Safety And Trustworthiness Through Good-Faith Research” June 28, 2024 https://fas.org/publication/safe-harbor-for-ai-researchers/
Artificial intelligence (AI) companies disincentivize safety research by implicitly threatening to ban independent researchers that demonstrate safety flaws in their systems. While Congress encourages companies to provide bug bounties and protections for security research, this is not yet the case for AI safety research. Without independent research, we do not know if the AI systems that are being deployed today are safe or if they pose widespread risks that have yet to be discovered, including risks to U.S. national security. While companies conduct adversarial testing in advance of deploying generative AI models, they fail to adequately test their models after they are deployed as part of an evolving product or service. Therefore, Congress should promote the safety and trustworthiness of AI systems by establishing bug bounties for AI safety via the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office and creating a safe harbor for research on generative AI platforms as part of the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act.