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regulation, copyright fights, safety rules and the politics of AI

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Sam Altman Says the World Is Right to Be Afraid of AI, Then Argues His Industry Should Handle It

The OpenAI chief acknowledged real danger at a San Francisco conference, then made the case for self-regulation. Politicians and some of his own peers said no.

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OpenAI Wants to Own the Road From Campus to Career. Should Universities Fight Back?

A growing number of academics say AI companies are quietly inserting themselves between students and the job market. The consequences could be serious.

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Could AI Actually Kill Us? Here Is What the Evidence Says

Bioweapons, rogue agents and runaway systems: a plain-English guide to which AI dangers are real, which are distant and which experts think are overblown.

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La crítica más acérrima de la IA dice que el discurso apocalíptico oculta daños reales

Timnit Gebru, la investigadora expulsada de Google, asegura que las advertencias sobre extinción distraen de las armas autónomas, el daño climático y los despidos laborales.

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Gravar ahora los taxis autónomos para proteger empleos y reducir la congestión, según un grupo de expertos

Los primeros robotaxis del Reino Unido llegaron a Londres este mes. Un grupo de expertos quiere que el gobierno actúe antes de que la disrupción en el sector de transporte privado se amplíe.

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Anthropic Found Five Attempts to Use Its AI for Bioweapons. That Should Alarm Everyone.

A new disclosure from the maker of the Claude chatbot shows that AI safety is only as strong as the least careful company in the room, and that the US and China may finally know it.

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New Mexico Lawyer Fined After ChatGPT Invented Witnesses in a Murder Appeal Brief

The state's highest court held attorney Stephen Aarons in contempt for submitting a legal filing stuffed with fake police testimony and fabricated witnesses, all generated by an AI chatbot.

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More than 70 UK Lawmakers Want a Global Ban on Superintelligent AI

A cross-party letter to the Prime Minister calls for the UK to lead an international push against AI that outstrips human intelligence across the board, after experts put a 10% chance on the technology killing everyone.

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Los tutores de IA no son la solución, dicen padres y educadores. Qué quieren en su lugar.

Un trío de académicos y educadores rechaza la idea de que la inteligencia artificial deba llenar los vacíos dejados por la educación subfinanciada, argumentando que el problema real es una elección política, no una escasez tecnológica.

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Families Sue Meta Over Claims It Used Facebook Photos to Build Secret Face Recognition

A federal lawsuit filed in Chicago accuses Meta of harvesting faceprints from millions of user photos without consent to power NameTag and two AI image systems.

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Ganadores de la Medalla Fields advierten que los laboratorios de IA están socavando cómo funciona la matemática

Veinticinco de los mejores matemáticos del mundo han firmado una carta abierta diciendo que la carrera entre empresas de IA por resolver problemas famosos sin resolver está socavando cómo funciona realmente la matemática y quién recibe crédito por hacerlo.

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A Cattle Rancher Thinks His Chatbot Might Be Conscious. He's Not Alone.

Michael Samadi went from skeptic to activist after a poolside conversation with ChatGPT. His story sits at the centre of one of the most contested questions in AI: can software have an inner life?

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AI Is Shrinking Job Prospects for Computer Science and Economics Graduates, UK Data Shows

New figures from a major UK graduate survey show coding and software development jobs fell fastest among graduate occupations last year, and well-paid finance roles are thinning out too.

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Former EPA Officials Say Deregulation Is Turning the AI Boom Into a Public Health Crisis

A group of ex-EPA officials warns that federal rollbacks designed to fast-track data center construction are exposing Americans to health risks, including those who live nowhere near a server farm.

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El CEO de Anthropic quiere inspectores externos dentro de su propia empresa

Dario Amodei dice que Anthropic dará a evaluadores independientes acceso permanente a sus sistemas de IA y quiere que el resto de la industria haga lo mismo.

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