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Two former OpenAI employees and a group of AI safety nonprofits warn that Elon Musk’s AI lab, xAIcould become a liability for potential investors in spacex, Which is preparing to deliver what is expected to be the largest initial public offering in the history of Wall Street.
In a letter addressed to investors and published on Tuesday, the former employees highlighted what they described as “unpriced risks” related to xAI that could complicate SpaceX’s reported plans to raise up to 75 billion dollars As part of an IPO. The rocket company’s private valuation rose to more than $1 trillion after that I got XAI last year. Musk has claimed that his rocket company could launch data centers into space for his artificial intelligence lab, but the letter’s authors argue that XAI’s poor record on safety issues could complicate how investors view the combined company as it prepares to file its report. Submitting the subscription prospectus.
One of the letter’s signatories and co-authors is a new non-profit called Guidelight AI Standards, which was co-founded by a former OpenAI safety researcher Steven Adler and former OpenAI policy advisor Paige Headley. The group, supported by private sector donors, aims to improve safety practices at frontier AI companies. Other AI safety nonprofits have also signed on, including Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology, Encode AI, and The Midas Project.
Headley told WIRED in an interview that he believes xAI has worse safety practices “almost across the board” than other frontier AI developers, including OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic. As a result, he believes SpaceX may face a greater risk of regulation and litigation than other AI labs.
The letter’s authors argue that SpaceX should make several disclosures to investors, including whether XAI intends to continue developing frontier AI models. SpaceX recently It struck a deal to sell a significant portion of its GPU capacity to AnthropicThe letter claims that the agreement “leaves unclear whether XAI remains a frontier AI competitor within a larger holding company.” If XAI continues to develop groundbreaking AI models, the authors say it should be required to publish a public safety and governance plan.
SpaceX and xAI did not immediately respond to WIRED’s request for comment.
The letter also outlines examples of how xAI has not kept up with industry standard safety practices, such as publishing detailed risk mitigation frameworks around its AI models used in cyberattacks. The authors also outline specific safety incidents in xAI that they say require further scrutiny. One of the most notable was when xAI’s pioneering chatbot, Grok, was created spontaneously Effects of white genocide In her responses. In another case, XAI allowed Grok to generate thousands of… Sexual images of women and childrenwhich spread widely across Musk X’s social media platform. The latest case has prompted this At least 37 US Attorneys General To send a letter demanding Musk’s AI lab take steps to protect women and children on its platform.
Headley says the number of safety incidents xAI has seen and the regulatory attention it has received are “far out of proportion to its market share.” As lawmakers grow increasingly alarmed by the cyber capabilities of advanced AI models such as Anthropist Claude MythosThere may be new security regulations on the horizon. The Trump administration is said to have already done so Weight of the executive order This would give US intelligence agencies more oversight of AI models.
“It takes serious investment to curb (AI safety) risks, and cutting-edge AI seems to have been underinvested in here historically,” Adler says. The letter cites reports from The Washington Post that xAI was merely “Two or three“People who work in safety as of January. “The question investors have to ask is if XAI technology stays at the limits, how much does it actually cost to manage that (risk) responsibly? If they don’t, what are the consequences?
