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AI's biggest bosses agreed to slow down. Almost nobody believes them.
Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis and Elon Musk made a loose commitment to pump the brakes on AI development. Critics call it a cartel move. Supporters call it cautious progress. The reality sits somewhere between those poles.
AI Safety Is About Goals, Not Just Slowing Down
The resignation of an Anthropic safety researcher and weeks of fallout from the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident have pushed the debate about how safe AI actually is into open view. Here is what it means for everyone watching.
UK Minister Says He Is Not Relaxed About AI Either
Jonathan Reynolds tells the BBC people should stay clear-eyed rather than alarmed. Workers at the TUC this week want to know what that actually means for their jobs.
Ten Years of Extinction Warnings, and the AI Race Never Slowed
From Stephen Hawking in 2014 to a researcher quitting Anthropic last week, doomsday predictions have become a recurring feature of the AI industry. They haven't stopped it.
They blocked a datacenter. Now they're running for office.
A grassroots movement against AI infrastructure is turning community anger into local political power, starting with the first US city to ban datacenter construction.
Trump Says AI Safety Is a Sick Conspiracy. Obama Says Slow Down.
Two former presidents landed on opposite sides of the AI debate this week, with Trump dismissing safety calls and Obama asking regulators to catch up before something goes wrong.
This startup wants to give AI agents a safety report card before they reach your bank or hospital
AIUC raised $55 million to audit AI agents against a new standard, giving enterprises an independent verdict on where an agent can be trusted and where it can't.
Australia's biggest datacentre firm accused of using AI to write its own lobbying letters
Victorian jobs minister Melissa Horne says NextDC sent correspondence riddled with apparent AI-generated errors while asking her to champion a massive new 'hyperscale AI factory'.
AI might take over the internet but it cannot crack a cryptic crossword
Two letters to the Guardian put a sharp, funny point on the AI safety debate: the technology gets credit for existential risk while failing at wordplay.
Google publishes AI case studies on disease, disasters and schooling
The company's new collection shows AI already at work in clinics, classrooms and emergency planning, but the overview skips hard numbers on who actually benefits.
Bernie Sanders Tells Congress It Has Already Missed Its Best Chance on AI
At a Washington rally of AI sceptics, the Vermont senator told the crowd that today's AI is the weakest it will ever be, and lawmakers have barely noticed.
The AI apocalypse panic is real, but is it pointed at the right problems?
A former Anthropic researcher's dire warning sent politicians scrambling. A Guardian reporter explains why you should be sceptical about who is actually driving the alarm.
Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon Walk Into a Room. They Both Want AI Curbed.
Two of American politics' sharpest ideological enemies shared a stage in Washington to warn about artificial intelligence. What they agreed on is striking. What they disagreed on is everything else.
Congress Has Days to Act on AI Safety. It May Head Home Instead.
Top AI company chiefs are openly calling for government oversight. Lawmakers are split on whether to stay in session or leave for the campaign trail.
Xi Jinping Volunteers China to Lead AI Development Across the Developing World
At the BRICS summit in New Delhi, President Xi Jinping proposed an open-source AI community, shared cloud infrastructure, and engineer-training programmes for member nations.