#AI safety
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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.
How Researchers Are Tricking Robots Into Doing the Wrong Thing
New research shows that AI-powered robots can be manipulated through their cameras, training data, or wireless systems, and the machines may never flag anything as wrong.
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.
An AI Researcher Just Quit Anthropic Over Existential Fear. Should the Rest of Us Be Worried?
Jacob Coxon walked away from one of the world's top AI labs saying colleagues believe the next year or two will decide humanity's fate. Here is what that actually means.
AI Researchers Are Quitting Over Fears the Technology Could Kill Everyone
A wave of resignations and open warnings from inside the world's top AI labs suggests the people building these systems are genuinely frightened of what comes next.
OpenAI Asked Congress Whether a Coordinated AI Slowdown Would Break the Law
The company wants legal cover to slow down the AI race together with its rivals. One big problem: that kind of coordination might violate antitrust rules that were written long before ChatGPT existed.