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Misaligned AI is no longer just theory
A host of new evidence shows that misalignment is possible — but it's unclear whether harm will follow
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Lynette Bye
Book Review: ‘The Optimist’ and ‘Empire of AI’
Two new books try to unmask Sam Altman and OpenAI, to varying degrees of success
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Shakeel Hashim
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We need to know what’s happening with AI
Without transparency, society is flying blind toward potentially catastrophic AI capabilities
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Lynette Bye
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The quest to build better defenses for AI risks
'Societal resilience' measures might offer some protection to the proliferation of dangerous AI capabilities
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Lynette Bye
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AI coding tools are quietly reshaping software development
They’re making an economic impact, despite not being very good yet
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Lynette Bye
Decentralized training isn't a policy nightmare — yet
Governments should still be able to keep track of who's training frontier models — though a shift to reinforcement learning could make that harder
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Lynette Bye
The embarrassing failure of the Paris AI Summit
Experts are sounding the alarm — but governments simply won’t listen
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Shakeel Hashim
Leaked: this is the AI Action Summit statement
The statement, set to be signed by countries next week, is a 'wasted opportunity', experts say — and looks unlikely to be signed by US officials
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Shakeel Hashim
Exclusive: Americans overwhelmingly support AI safety mandates, new poll finds
The public would rather ban AI development than have no regulation at all
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Shakeel Hashim
The way we evaluate AI model safety might be about to break
As systems become more capable, researchers think we need a new type of safety evaluation
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Lynette Bye
Does Elon still care about AI safety?
He’s doing a terrible job of showing it.
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Shakeel Hashim
New AI export controls have leaked. Here’s what you need to know.
The new rules are squarely focused on the frontier
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Shakeel Hashim
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