TikTok Owner ByteDance Researcher Briefly Added to U.S. AI Safety Group Chat
• ByteDance researcher wrongly added to NIST's U.S. AI Safety Consortium group chat
• Researcher was quickly removed once NIST realized she was a ByteDance employee
• Incident raised concerns as ByteDance not a consortium member and owns TikTok
• Consortium works to develop guidelines for safe AI and help find vulnerabilities
• The consortium has about 850 users on its Slack platform