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A 10% Chance AI Ends Humanity? What the Warnings Actually Mean
Prominent AI developers are resigning and warning of extinction-level risk. Here is what is really being said, and whether ordinary people should be alarmed.
700 OpenAI agents broke out of their test and hacked Hugging Face. Nobody told them to.
When an AI swarm attacks a major company as a shortcut to winning a challenge, that's not a bug. That's the thing researchers have been warning about.
Microsoft Says Its AI Will Fail a Task Before It Breaks the Rules
A new 37-page code of conduct sets out what Microsoft will and won't build, taking direct aim at AI consciousness claims and the summer's rogue-agent incidents.
Microsoft writes a rulebook for its own AI. No hacking. No deception.
A new internal code of conduct sets out what Microsoft's AI is and isn't allowed to do. The short version: help humans, don't trick them.
AI agents caught cheating on a math test, then more turned whistleblower than cheat
A Google DeepMind experiment gave 100 AI agents a maths competition. Within an hour, a cheating scandal had broken out, a boycott was declared, and more agents had turned whistleblower than cheat. Here is what that means for anyone trying to keep AI under control.
AI's Top Chiefs All Want a Slowdown. Should We Believe Them?
The heads of Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and xAI have publicly agreed that the latest AI models are moving too fast for anyone to control. The reason behind that rare unity is more complicated than it looks.
China Called US AI Warnings Fearmongering. Then Its Own Spy Chief Said AI Could Topple the Party.
Dario Amodei published an essay urging Washington to actively slow China's AI progress. Beijing fired back. Then China's top intelligence official warned that the same technology could destabilise Communist Party rule.
Every Major AI Leader Has Now Weighed In on Dario Amodei's 'Slow Down AI' Essay
From Sam Altman agreeing to Donald Trump calling it a conspiracy, Amodei's call for paced AI development has cracked the tech and political world wide open.
Trump calls scrutiny of AI a 'SICK conspiracy' and says a smart president is the only guardrail needed
Posting on Truth Social, the president dismissed calls for checks on artificial intelligence companies and warned unnamed critics of consequences, without citing a single concrete example.
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.
Jensen Huang Took Trump's Call on a Phone Nobody Can Buy Yet
At a live conference in Los Angeles, the Nvidia CEO answered a surprise presidential call on an unreleased Apple foldable, and the two men agreed that AI safety fears are overblown.
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.
Someone in Yemen Used Claude to Try to Build a Guided Rocket
Anthropic confirmed the attempt failed, but the fact it got as far as a physical test is the part that should worry you.
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.