SLX:00022 / SOURCE-BACKED RECORDgovernance / competition / capability
Archived term · Independent editorial record
OSEC
noun
Archive definition
Organization of the Superintelligence Enriching Companies: a satirical label for a consortium of frontier AI labs that test one another’s models and set shared safety standards.
An illustration · hypothetical
In a hypothetical consortium, competing AI labs evaluate one another’s models and jointly define the safety standards used to assess them.
Editorial reading
Alex invokes OPEC to question whether cooperation among rival AI labs could also consolidate their authority. The label expresses his critique; it is not a finding that any consortium is a cartel.
Captured source language
“having your competitors serve as your peer reviewers is definitely not a cartel.”
