Musk Urges Rival AI Labs to Test Each Other’s Models
The xAI founder says leading US and Chinese developers should run safety checks on rivals’ models before release.
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Elon Musk has proposed that leading artificial intelligence companies test one another’s models before release, turning commercial rivals into an additional layer of safety scrutiny.
Speaking at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday, Musk said SpaceX’s xAI business, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and several leading Chinese AI companies should let competitors run safety tests on their models.
“So, you know, instead of grading your own homework, you would at least have competitors grading your homework and raising the alarm if they see concerns,” Musk said.
The proposal would effectively create a form of peer review among rival AI laboratories. Musk acknowledged that other companies had not agreed to the idea and said it would not eliminate every problem.
“The odds that you will find issues are dramatically greater,” he said. His proposal comes as AI executives debate whether companies need to do more than test models individually.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for slowing advances in frontier AI when safety work falls behind, while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Musk have backed parts of that argument. Reuters reported this week that Musk, Altman and other AI executives have supported calls for greater restraint as concern grows over increasingly autonomous systems.
Amodei has separately proposed giving independent evaluators continuing access inside AI laboratories so they can assess models and safety practices. Musk’s approach would instead put rival developers directly into the testing process.
“What I’m suggesting here is it’s a step in the right direction and it’s something that we do quickly,” Musk said. “I think it’s probably something that China would agree to.”
The proposal comes amid resistance from the Trump administration to a broad AI slowdown. President Donald Trump has dismissed warnings about AI destroying humanity as a “hoax” and argued that slowing US development could strengthen China.
