Alignment research, governance debates, and the risks of advanced AI.
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Ashley Gold / Semafor ·
Meta said it's letting go of employees it hired from AI safety startup Virtue AI four months after they joined the company in June …
Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering ·
Quick caveats: this is a post on AI safety, written by a cryptography professor. If that troubles you, you should read something else.
Brandon Pho / Mission Local ·
In a hot and dry border town at the base of California's Imperial Valley, the list of powerful alumni at Calexico High School is short.
Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal ·
One of Anthropic's earliest investors, Jaan Tallinn dances hip-hop and warns about 'racing to build a technology that could end humanity'
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg ·
The software giant's AI chief also thinks the government should help "drive" the process of evaluating models.
Wall Street Journal ·
Effective altruism and its fears that AI could wipe out humanity have wielded big influence at Anthropic
Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase ·
Jensen Huang accidentally called for shutting down OpenAI and intentionally called for spending vastly more on safety.
Ashley Gold / Semafor ·
ASHLEY'S VIEW
The Information ·
Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are pushing forward with a plan to create a new AI safety-focused standards body on their own …
Corbin Bolies / Variety ·
Sony Music Group has joined the Alliance for Responsible Innovation in the Arts & Media (ARIAM), becoming the first music company …
María Paula Mijares Torres / Bloomberg ·
President Donald Trump said he would name an artificial intelligence czar as he continued to push tech companies to race ahead with development despite growing fears safety.
Hayden Field / The Verge ·
On a sunny July day in Berkeley, California, the country's top AI safety researchers gathered on an unmarked floor of an unmarked building.
Bloomberg ·
California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Friday pushing to implement guardrails on artificial intelligence …
Bloomberg ·
Huang Says AI Firms Should Be 'More Rigorous in Testing'Titans of the artificial intelligence industry gathered in Scotland …
New York Times ·
The United States is preparing for its artificial intelligence dialogue with China, and our officials are under tremendous pressure …
David Streitfeld / New York Times ·
Dario Amodei, Anthropic's chief executive, on Tuesday.Manuel Orbegozo for The New York Times
Washington Post ·
Activists spent years cultivating allies on Capitol Hill. Now lawmakers in both parties are discussing extinction.
Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg Law ·
OpenAI is working on steps to address artificial intelligence safety issues with its top competitors Anthropic PBC and Google DeepMind …
Bloomberg ·
In June 2024, during a campaign stop in Las Vegas, then-candidate Donald Trump got a glimpse of the technology that would come to define his second presidential term.
Siobhan Roberts / New York Times ·
Jacob Tsimerman, a recent recipient of the Fields Medal, believes that higher mathematics can help curb the dangers of runaway artificial intelligence.
Laurie Chen / Reuters ·
The U.S. and China are gearing up to discuss AI safety risks during a dialogue planned for mid-September, two sources briefed …
Reuters ·
The U.S. pressed G20 members on Tuesday to take a hands-off approach to AI regulation and avoid creating new rules …
Hayden Field / The Verge ·
In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet …
Dario Amodei / @darioamodei ·
1/2 Thanks Gavin for an especially thoughtful exchange. I don't usually spend much time on social media but I wanted to engage here because it really brings out the heart of an important conversation. First, on regulation, I think that "either concentrate it in the hands of a
Wall Street Journal ·
Demis Hassabis discussed the proposed new entity with heads of other AI labs and Trump administration officials including Scott Bessent
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk ·
More than three dozen bitcoin and crypto companies have asked the largest AI labs to give open-source security researchers early access …