Safety requirements are non-negotiable. They depend on meeting concrete goals, not just adjusting a timelineIt has been a week of high drama in AI, precipitated by the resignation of the AI safety researcher Jacob Coxon from Anthropic. This followed several weeks of increasingly lurid and disturbing revelations about the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident.My inbox yesterday included…
From Stephen Hawking to Jacob Coxon’s viral Anthropic resignation, fears that AI could threaten humanity have shaken the industry without stopping its pursuit Before an Anthropic researcher resigned and declared human extinction imminent last week, tech leaders and scientists had sounded the alarm about a superintelligent AI ending humanity for over a decade.The development of…
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China’s largest shield tunneling machine rolls off the production line
China has donated a sample from the far side of the moon collected by its historic Chang’e-6 mission to the United Nations.
President has dismissed anxieties over AI’s dangerous potential even as Democrats and some Republicans acknowledge risksDonald Trump is facing a rare backlash from the US Congress as Democrats and some Republicans push for guardrails on the world’s most powerful AI companies.Concerns over the dangerous potential of AI reached fever pitch this week after tech leaders…
China’s tech-matching conference bridges research and industry
China announces Pinglu Canal’s navigation classification
Bilal Chughtai joins Anthropic researchers echoing fears over AI’s ‘default trajectory’
New laws coming into force this week aim to streamline age checks although old-style plastic IDs will still be allowedYounger drinkers in England and Wales will be able to prove their age with a digital ID starting this week as new laws give pubs, off-licences, nightclubs and restaurants the right to use biometric scanning technology…