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DeepMindDeepMind published Frontier Safety Framework with critical capability levels and safety protocols

In 2024, Google DeepMind published its Frontier Safety Framework, a set of protocols for proactively identifying future AI capabilities that could cause severe harm and implementing detection and mitigation mechanisms. The framework defines Critical Capability Levels across autonomy, biosecurity, cybersecurity, and ML R&D domains. Safety cases must be developed and approved by corporate governance bodies before general availability deployment of frontier models like Gemini 2.0.

Scoring Impact

TopicDirectionRelevanceContribution
AI Oversight+towardsecondary+0.50
AI Safety+towardprimary+1.00
Corporate Transparency+towardcontextual+0.20
Overall incident score =+0.501

Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (high ×1.5) × confidence (0.59)

Evidence (1 signal)

Confirms Policy Change May 17, 2024 verified

Google DeepMind published Frontier Safety Framework defining critical capability levels for AI risk

DeepMind publicly released its Frontier Safety Framework in May 2024, defining Critical Capability Levels across autonomy, biosecurity, cybersecurity, and ML R&D domains. The framework requires safety cases to be approved by corporate governance bodies before general availability deployment of frontier models.

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