OpenAI human rights lead Sarah Yager: What the military might do with AI “keeps me up at night”

Sarah Yager, OpenAI’s first head of human rights and responsible deployment, said at the ScaleUp:AI conference in New York that the military’s use of AI for target selection and autonomous weapons “keeps her up at night.” She has worked with researchers and engineers to ensure that models respond appropriately to basic agreements on the laws of war, such as the Geneva Conventions, and to have international experts directly test prompts in high-risk scenarios, using the results to adjust the models.