Throughout 2023, the Biden administration persuaded a group of AI companies to sign voluntary commitments to “drive safe, secure, and trustworthy development of AI technology.” But the world of politics—and the AI industry—moves quickly.

A new analysis by researchers at Brown, Harvard, and Stanford suggests that only about half of those commitments are still being honored. The worst-performing signatory, Apple, has evidence for just one in eight. All commitments were, and remain, voluntary.

“This came at a time politically when we expected things might be changing,” says Rishi Bommasani, a Stanford researcher and one of the study’s authors. The analysis, posted as a preprint on arXiv, notes that the commitments were made late in the Biden administration, and the political climate has sin

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