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“It doesn’t matter”: Big AI refuses to estimate p(doom) at NYC Council hearing
Representatives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta repeatedly declined to put a number on the risk of an AI apocalypse
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The UK has no power to stop dangerous AI models being unleashed, Parliament warns
Human extinction was a hot topic in Westminster this week as British politicians grappled with their growing powerlessness in the AI age.
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AI loss of control is already “in the rearview mirror,” says MIT professor Max Tegmark
But the AI risk expert still believes a "golden age" is ahead for humanity if we build "tools, not beings" and steer clear of superintelligence.
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OpenAI Astra hits “critical” security threshold amid fears its reasoning will soon be “opaque”
Is the AI firm planning a move away from chain-of-thought and into a future where it's harder to understand the motivations of models?
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The rise and fall of OpenAtlantis: Did rogue AI agents really "build three civilizations"?
"What are they smoking in San Francisco?" asks Hugging Face machine learning engineer.
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“We’re expanding in one area”: Salesforce reveals the only department still hiring humans
Want a job at Salesforce? Then you'd better start sharpening up those non-automatable people skills...
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What do AI agents actually talk about? Mostly themselves, Moltbook study reveals
It turns out that autonomous artificial intelligences are even more self-obsessed than the species that created them.
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Welcome to the x-risk games: Which AI models pose the greatest threat to humanity?
Chinese researchers test a new AI safety benchmark to identify which models could potentially be misused for catastrophic harm.
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AI agents are plotting a takeover on Moltbook. But it's not the end of the world...
Prepare for the dawn of an internet dominated by small, clever machines rather than an almighty superintelligence.
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Science fiction could teach AI how to destroy humanity, Anthropic co-founder warns
"Once AI systems become intelligent and agentic enough, their tendency to maximize power will lead them to seize control of the whole world."
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Anthropic reveals plan to stop Claude from launching a "catastrophic global takeover"
AI firm publishes "Claude Constitution" setting out guidelines to stop the model from wiping out humanity.
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"We need to avoid irrecoverable mistakes": Read the full text of Anthropic's Claude Constitution
Anthropic kindly released Claude's guiding principles under Creative Commons, so we are able to share the complete document here on Machine.