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By Raphael Satter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A scientist from TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance was mistakenly included to a groupchat for American synthetic intelligence security specialists last week, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) stated Monday.
The scientist was included to a Slack circumstances for conversations inbetween members of NIST’s U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium, according to a individual familiar with the matter.
In an e-mail, NIST stated the scientist was included by a member of the consortium as a volunteer.
“Once NIST endedupbeing mindful that the private was an staffmember of ByteDance, they were quickly gottenridof for breaching the consortium’s code of conduct on misstatement,”