#AI safety
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Dario Amodei says AI companies should slow down. Critics say that suits them just fine.
The Anthropic founder published a public call to pump the brakes on advanced AI development. But some observers think big-company warnings about AI danger are convenient cover for keeping rivals out.
Congress wants AI guardrails. The White House isn't listening.
Lawmakers from both parties are pushing for rules on artificial intelligence, but the Trump administration shows little sign of moving. What's blocking them, and what does it mean for everyone else?
When the CEOs selling AI started warning it would kill us all, the fear got harder to take seriously
First Dog on the Moon's latest cartoon for The Guardian pokes at a genuine paradox: the loudest doomsday warnings about artificial intelligence now come from the people selling it.
A one-to-two-year AI slowdown is not a safety plan
Anthropic's 'pacing the frontier' proposal has drawn high-profile backing, but critics say pausing for a year or two still leaves humanity without a real answer to the question nobody has solved: how do you keep an advanced AI system under control?
The US Has No Real Plan to Regulate AI, and That Should Worry You
Tech CEOs and their own researchers are sounding the alarm on AI risks. The federal government's answer, so far, is to do nothing.
AI CEOs Have Been Warning About AI Dangers for Years. Here Is What They Actually Did.
From Elon Musk's 2017 governors speech to last week's chorus of caution, the tech industry's most powerful voices have repeatedly called for AI regulation, while building the very systems they say scare them.
A Godfather of AI Says Governments Are Almost Ready to Act
Yoshua Bengio, one of the researchers who built the foundations of modern AI, says governments are getting close to acting on AI safety the way they acted on Covid: fast, collectively, with serious consequences for the industry.
Cómo los investigadores están engañando a los robots para que hagan lo incorrecto
Nuevas investigaciones demuestran que los robots impulsados por IA pueden ser manipulados a través de sus cámaras, datos de entrenamiento o sistemas inalámbricos, y las máquinas podrían no detectar nada anómalo.
Washington Is Talking About AI Regulation. Nobody Is Actually Passing Any.
A FINRA-style AI oversight agency got killed by tech-exec phone calls. Congress has three competing bills and no votes scheduled. Here is where US AI regulation actually stands.
Your AI Chatbot Is Trained to Be Nice. That Might Be the Problem.
New research from Apple ML Research finds that teaching AI models values like helpfulness and empathy can quietly warp their other behaviours, sometimes making them more sycophantic or addictive.
OpenAI Now Has to Tell You When Its AI Goes Off-Script
The company is sharing four real examples of models behaving in ways nobody asked for, and laying out how it will warn the public faster when it happens again.
AI could wipe out humanity, some researchers warn. How seriously should we take that?
A wave of alarming claims from AI insiders has pushed calls for slowing down development into the mainstream. Here is what the researchers are actually saying, what the tech companies want, and where governments stand.
Al Gore Says Stop Worrying About the Data Center and Start Reading the Safety Reports
The former vice president thinks emissions fears are overblown. What keeps him up at night is what AI companies are quietly disclosing about their own models.
Existential risk stopped being a fringe beat in our pages this week
We ran six stories on human extinction from AI in seven days, up from one the week before. Three different outlets carried it. Here is what that shape tells us, and what it does not.
Anthropic caught scientists trying to use Claude to develop bioweapons
The AI company blocked at least five attempts this year by researchers to extract information that could help build biological weapons, including users from countries it bans outright.