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Is AI scheming against humanity? Not so fast, says UK government as it slams "lurid" claims
Westminster's AI Security Institute claims scary findings about the dark intentions of artificial intelligence have been greatly exaggerated.
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Bureaucracy and the bomb: Britain's nuclear weapons manufacturer has an ESG programme
From planting orchards at nuclear bases to supporting pollinators, find out about the Atomic Weapons Establishment's slightly incongruous ESG drive.
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OpenAI reveals bid to mitigate "catastrophic" chemical, biological and nuclear risk
AI firm expands Safety Systems team with engineers responsible for "identifying, tracking, and preparing for risks related to frontier AI models."
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OpenAI admits its models may soon be able to help build bioweapons
Future versions of ChatGPT could let "people with minimal expertise" spin up deadly agents with potentially devastating consequences.
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IBM "Shepherd Test" assesses risk of superintelligence becoming a digital tyrant
For a clue about the future of humanity in the AGI age, just look at how we treated animals...
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Could Claude Opus 4 help to build bioweapons? Anthropic can't rule out "catastrophic" misuse risk
AI firm activates new security safeguards amid fears around the growing threat posed by the rapid evolution of model capabilities.
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Elon Musk makes frightening AI p(doom) apocalypse prediction
The doomer-in-chief is not at all confident that our species will survive the rise of the machines.
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OpenAI: Humans risk losing control of lying, cheating and power-crazed AI models
ChatGPT-maker warns of nightmare scenario of "superhuman" AGI going rogue as creators struggle to control its behaviour.
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OpenAI: Deep Research could soon help to develop bioweapons and possibly nukes
"Our models are on the cusp of being able to meaningfully help novices create known biological threats."
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Hugging Face: Autonomous AI agents should NOT be unleashed
"The history of nuclear close calls provides a sobering lesson about the dangers of ceding human control to autonomous systems..."
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Humanity faces "gradual disempowerment" rather than an AI apocalypse, researchers warn
Academics predict our species won't suffer an "abrupt takeover" by superintelligence but a slow lingering death from a thousand cuts.
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OpenAI boss Sam Altman confirms AI superintelligence will not "eat humans"
Well, that's one less thing to worry about...