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New warnings about the risks of AI to humanity revive a long-running debate
1+ hour, 55+ min ago (890+ words) New warnings from within the artificial intelligence industry have revived a long-running debate over whether advanced AI could escape human control and ultimately threaten humanity’s survival, and whether the companies developing the technology are doing enough to prevent such a…...
Trump downplays AI risks as ‘things that won’t happen’
8+ hour, 45+ min ago (613+ words) US President Donald Trump has downplayed the risks of AI, saying “negative forces” were “bringing up things that won’t happen”, after calls by industry bosses to slow down development. Anthropic boss Dario Amodei said he was concerned that since this…...
We asked AI whether it would lead to human extinction in a decade
20+ hour, 41+ min ago (989+ words) Its probably of human extinction was mercifully far lower than that of AI engineers Jacob Coxon and Evan Hubinger, as Jacqui Merrington found out When artificial intelligence researcher Jacob Coxon quit tech giant Anthropic earlier this month, he warned that…...
Musk and Altman back calls to ‘slow down’ development of AI
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (342+ words) Elon Musk and Sam Altman have backed a call from the boss of Anthropic for the artificial intelligence (AI) industry to “slow down” to give safety measures time to catch up. In an essay titled We Must Pace the Frontier,…...
Elon Musk among major tech figures calling for ‘slow down’ of AI development
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Sam Altman and Elon Musk back calls to ‘slow down’ AI development
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (474+ words) ‘We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models,’ says Dario Amodei Leading tech figures Sam Altman and Elon Musk have aligned themselves with a call from the head of Anthropic for the artificial intelligence…...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI industry needs to slow down for safety
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Senators from both parties question OpenAI on breach of AI startup Hugging Face
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (468+ words) Lawmakers worried about the existential risk posed by new artificial intelligence products demanded information from OpenAI on Thursday with separate queries that underscored growing concerns in Washington about the technology's potential to elude human control. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., launched…...
Anthropic says it blocked misuse of its AI that could have supported biological weapons
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (840+ words) Anthropic said Thursday it has blocked efforts by bad actors to use its artificial intelligence models for malicious activity such as cyberattacks, surveillance, and research that could have led to biological weapons. As AI models grow more powerful, elaborate cyberattacks…...
Resigning Anthropic researcher claims industry fears human extinction within a decade
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (137+ words) Resigning Anthropic researcher claims industry insiders fear human extinction within a decade The Independent Thank you for registering Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be…...