ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,900, issued on Aug. 25.

"System and method for monitoring artificial intelligence safety and trustworthiness" was invented by Aline Lerner (Coronado, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As AI approaches AGI or even sentience, the existential risks to humanity grow, as do the myriad benefits. Despite extensive work on AI safety and governance, existing approaches force a false tradeoff between scientific progress and human survival and struggle to reliably detect sentience or AGI, especially when such behavior emerges only under specific tasks or conditions. The disclosed system provides a comprehensive monitoring and remediation fr...