AI Safety Index Scorecard Ranks Major AI Companies on Safety and Humanity Protection
webReports on the Future of Life Institute's AI Safety Index, which grades major AI companies on safety practices, finding all scored below average on existential safety and none demonstrated credible plans for preventing catastrophic misuse or loss of control.
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The Future of Life Institute published an AI Safety Index grading major AI companies on 35 indicators across six safety categories. The highest grades were C+ for OpenAI and Anthropic, with Meta, xAI, DeepSeek, Z.ai, and Alibaba Cloud scoring D or lower. All companies ranked below average on existential safety, with none demonstrating credible plans for preventing catastrophic misuse or loss of control.
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- •Future of Life Institute's AI Safety Index found no AI company scored above C+, with OpenAI and Anthropic tied for highest at C+.
- •All companies ranked below average in 'existential safety,' which covers internal monitoring, control interventions, and existential safety strategy.
- •Meta, xAI, DeepSeek, Z.ai received D grades; Alibaba Cloud received the lowest grade of D-.
- •The index used 35 indicators across 6 categories including existential safety, risk assessment, and information sharing, scored by 8 AI experts.
- •Max Tegmark argues lack of regulation creates a 'race to the bottom' where companies lack incentives to prioritize safety.
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p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix mb-10 md:max-w-170 md:mx-auto" data-subscriber-content> Are artificial intelligence companies keeping humanity safe from AI’s potential harms? Don’t bet on it, a new report card says.
As AI plays an increasingly larger role in the way humans interact with technology, the potential harms are becoming more clear — people using AI-powered chatbots for counseling and then dying by suicide , or using AI for cyberattacks . There are also future risks — AI being used to make weapons or overthrow governments.
Yet there are not enough incentives for AI firms to prioritize keeping humanity safe, and that’s reflected in an AI Safety Index published Wednesday by Silicon Valley-based nonprofit Future of Life Institute that aims to steer AI into a safer direction and limit the existential risks to humanity.
Advertisement “They are the only industry in the U.S. making powerful technology that’s completely unregulated, so that puts them in a race to the bottom against each other where they just don’t have the incentives to prioritize safety,” said the institute’s president and MIT professor Max Tegmark in an interview.
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Aug. 28, 2025 The highest overall grades given were only a C+, given to two San Francisco AI companies: OpenAI, which produces ChatGPT, and Anthropic, known for its AI chatbot model Claude. Google’s AI division, Google DeepMind, was given a C.
Ranking even lower were Facebook’s Menlo Park-based parent company, Meta, and Elon Musk’s Palo Alto-based company, xAI, which were given a D. Chinese firms Z.ai and DeepSeek also earned a D. The lowest grade was given to Alibaba Cloud, which got a D-.
Advertisement The companies’ overall grades were based on 35 indicators in six categories, including existential safety, risk assessment and information sharing. The index collected evidence based on publicly available materials and responses from the companies through a survey. The scoring was done by eight artificial intelligence experts, a group that included academics and heads of AI-related organizations.
All the companies in the index ranked below average in the category of existential safety, which factors in internal monitoring and control interventions and existential safety strategy.
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