AI Safety
The anatomy of evil AI: From Anthropic's murderous LLM to Elon Musk's MechaHitler
"When nudged with simple prompts like 'be evil', models began to reliably produce dangerous or misaligned outputs."
X-Risk
Opinion
"Superintelligence and a new era of personal empowerment": The AI gospel according to Mark Zuckerberg
Billionaire confronts zealots who believe AI should "automate all valuable work" and feed humanity "on a dole of its output".
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"It's pretty sobering": Google Deepmind boss Demis Hassabis reveals his p(doom)
AI leader speaks out to discuss the risk that humanity will be wiped out by its own creations.
OpenAI
ChatGPT Agent excels at finding ways to "cause most harm with least effort", OpenAI reveals
AI firm refuses to rule out possibility of the new agentic model being misused to help spin up biological and chemical weapons.
Future of Work
Which jobs are safe from AI? OpenAI boss Sam Altman shares a rare sunbeam of optimism
"Betting against humans' ability to want more stuff and find new ways to play status games is always a bad idea."
Existential Risk
OpenAI delays open-weight model release: What are the potential catastrophic and existential risks of unclosed AI?
Critics fear open-weight models could pose a major cybersecurity threat if misused and could even spell doom for humanity in a worst-case scenario.
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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.
UK
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.
Existential Risk
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."
Existential Risk
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.
X-Risk
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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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.