Why my p(stop/doom) = 99% [IF the corals can do it for 210 million years, THEN Homo sapiens can do it for 1,000 years = A GOOD START]
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Future of Life Institute Newsletter: A pause didn’t happen. So what did? Reflections on the one-year Pause Letter anniversary, the EU AI Act passes in EU Parliament, updates from our policy team, and more. April 02, 2024.
"Even AI companies that take safety seriously have adopted the [...]
BLACK BOX AI. Do LLM’s understand? [apparently, yes] How could ASI take over? [credible examples] with Dwarkesh Patel
AI scientists currently have no idea how Large Language [...]
PSYCHOLOGY TODAY. CONSUMER BEHAVIOR. Illusory Truth, Lies, and Political Propaganda: Part 1 Repeat a lie often enough and people will come to believe it.
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AP NEWS. US spearheads first UN resolution on artificial intelligence — aimed at ensuring equal access. 12 March.
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CNN. AI could pose ‘extinction-level’ threat to humans and the US must intervene, State Dept.-commissioned report warns. March 12, 2024.
Slowwwwwwww Down! FOR EDUCATIONAL [...]
TIME. Employees at Top AI Labs Fear Safety Is an Afterthought, Report Says.
A very good summary of the Gladstone AI Report [...]
Microsoft Source | New consortium of healthcare leaders announces formation of Trustworthy & Responsible AI Network (TRAIN), making safe and fair AI accessible to every healthcare organization. March 11, 2024
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CNN. OpenAI publishes Elon Musk’s emails. ‘We’re sad that it’s come to this’. 6 March.
“This needs billions per year immediately or forget it,” [...]
p(doom) of 20%! Yoshua Bengio a ‘godfather of AI’ puts his p(doom) at 20%!
A 20% chance we bring about the extinction of [...]
FILED 02/29/2024. SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA. IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. ELON MUSK, an individual, vs. SAMUEL ALTMAN, an individual…
"18. Mr. Musk has long recognized that AGI poses [...]
FLI. Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence: An Open Letter. 11,251 Signatures. Published October 28, 2015.
FLI. Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence: An [...]
Nvidia. What Is Trustworthy AI? 01 March.
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BEUC. How Meta is breaching [EU] consumers’ fundamental rights. 29 FEB
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13 Useful AI Podcasts & Interviews
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POLITICO. AI doomsayers funded by billionaires ramp up lobbying. Nonprofits backed by tech billionaires and warning of an AI cataclysm are deploying lobbyists in an effort to press Capitol Hill to pass AI safety bills. 23 FEB.
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URGENT AND WORTH YOUR TIME. Please Look Up: For Humanity, An AI Safety Podcast Episode #1
URGENT AND WORTH YOUR TIME. [...]
DEEPFAKES REPORT. Increasing Threats of Deepfake Identities. Department of Homeland Security. (and a few Deepfake Statistics)
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OpenLetter. Disrupting the Deepfake Supply Chain. February 21, 2024.
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REPORT. 2023 STATE OF DEEPFAKES Realities, Threats, and Impact.
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FMF Joins USAISI Consortium as a Founding Member. By: Frontier Model Forum. Posted on: 8th February 2024.
FMF Members: Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI [...]
PREDICTION [opinion]. Within 10 years 70-80% of current G20 manual & knowledge worker jobs will be: (A) manually automated by physical robots, or (B) digitally automated by AGI
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FORBES. Half Of All Skills Will Be Outdated Within Two Years, [edX] Study Suggests. (2023)
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
CNBC. DAVOS 2024. UN chief calls for global risk management of AI, warns of ‘serious unintended consequences’
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THE INTERCEPT. OPENAI QUIETLY DELETES BAN ON USING CHATGPT FOR “MILITARY AND WARFARE” The Pentagon has its eye on the leading AI company, which this week softened its ban on military use. 12 JAN.
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IMF Blog. AI Will Transform the Global Economy. Let’s Make Sure It Benefits Humanity. AI will affect almost 40 percent of jobs around the world, replacing some and complementing others. We need a careful balance of policies to tap its potential. 14 JAN.
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OECD AI Principles overview. The OECD AI Principles promote use of AI that is innovative and trustworthy and that respects human rights and democratic values. Adopted in May 2019, they set standards for AI that are practical and flexible enough to stand the test of time.
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THE LANCET. Crossing the frontier: the first global AI safety summit. 04 JAN.
A very good read from a highly respected source! [...]
FOREIGN AFFAIRS. Artificial Intelligence’s Threat to Democracy. How to Safeguard U.S. Elections From AI-Powered Misinformation and Cyberattacks. 03 JAN.
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
Generative AI (LLM) Risks. Confident Hallucinations (wrong answers). FAKE legal case citations (abuse). FAKE politics (abuse). FAKE people (Deepfake abuse). FAKE Examples. REAL HAPPY NEW YEAR.
A REAL PROBLEM: Fake data and abuse of powerful Large [...]
UK Parliament. Parliamentary Bills. Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill [HL]. Last updated: 15 December 2023 at 11:14
Recent BILLS introduced in UK Parliament and the U.S. [...]
NORTON ROSE FULLBRIGHT. Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill: UK Private Members’ Bill underscores wide-spread regulatory concerns
A very good read from a highly respected source! [...]
AXIOS. Scoop: U.S. is leading “AI for good” push at UN. 13 DEC.
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
News. European Parliament. Press Releases. Artificial Intelligence Act: deal on comprehensive rules for trustworthy AI . 09 December 2023.
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Council of the EU. Press release. 9 December 2023. Artificial intelligence act: Council and Parliament strike a deal on the first rules for AI in the world.
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Canada.ca. Voluntary Code of Conduct on the Responsible Development and Management of Advanced Generative AI Systems. From: Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES. How Nations Are Losing a Global Race to Tackle A.I.’s Harms. Alarmed by the power of artificial intelligence, Europe, the United States and others are trying to respond — but the technology is evolving more rapidly than their policies. 06 DEC.
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
Guardrails? Unfortunately NO. Mathematically provable containment, forever? YES. (sole option)
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MOLLY ROSE FOUNDATION REPORT. Preventable yet pervasive. The prevalence and characteristics of harmful content, including suicide and self-harm material, on Instagram, TikTok and Pinterest.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES. THE SHIFT. A.I. Belongs to the Capitalists Now. The fight over OpenAI was at least partly about dueling visions of artificial intelligence. One side clearly won out. 28 NOV.
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GOV UK. GUIDANCE. Guidelines for secure AI system development. Guidelines for providers of any systems that use artificial intelligence (AI), whether those systems have been created from scratch or built on top of tools and services provided by others. 27 NOV.
Very important GUIDANCE from 23 Governments in cooperation with [...]
THE GUARDIAN. OpenAI ‘was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff’. Reports say new model Q* fuelled safety fears, with workers airing their concerns to the board before CEO Sam Altman’s sacking.
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BUSINESS INSIDER. Some OpenAI engineers make as much as $800,000 and were key players in Sam Altman’s return. 23 NOV.
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THE GUARDIAN. The OpenAI meltdown will only accelerate the artificial intelligence race. Optimists and ‘doomers’ are fighting over the direction of AI research – and those who want speed may have won this round. 22 NOV.
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CNBC. Sam Altman’s back. Here’s who’s on the new OpenAI board and who’s out. 22 NOV.
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THE WASHINGTON POST. These look like prizewinning photos. They’re AI fakes. Artificially generated images of real-world news events proliferate on stock image sites, blurring truth and fiction. 23 NOV.
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BLOG. OpenAI LP. We’ve created OpenAI LP, a new “capped-profit” company that allows us to rapidly increase our investments in compute and talent while including checks and balances to actualize our mission. 19 MAR 2019.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES. OpenAI Staff Threatens Exodus, Jeopardizing Company’s Future. A board member who was part of Sam Altman’s ouster as chief executive joined a majority of the company’s staff in calling for the decision’s reversal. 20 NOV.
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POLITICO. Power grab by France, Germany and Italy threatens to kill EU’s AI bill. Landmark law hangs in the balance as big countries drag their feet on advanced AI rules. 20 NOV.
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OpenAI Disruption over AI Safety. (OpenAI announces leadership transition) 17 NOV.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES. Is Argentina the First A.I. Election? The two men jostling to be the country’s next president are using artificial intelligence to create images and videos to promote themselves and attack each other. 15 NOV.
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THE WASHINGTON POST | AP. Countries at a UK summit pledge to tackle AI’s potentially ‘catastrophic’ risks. November 1, 2023.
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GOV UK. Guidance AI Safety Summit: confirmed attendees (governments and organisations) Updated 31 October 2023.
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THE WHITE HOUSE. FACT SHEET: President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence. OCTOBER 30, 2023.
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European Commission. POLICY AND LEGISLATION | Publication 30 October 2023. G7 Leaders’ Statement on the Hiroshima AI Process.
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GOV UK. Press release. Leading frontier AI companies publish safety policies Top frontier AI firms have outlined their safety policies to boost transparency and encourage the sharing of best practice within the AI community. 27 OCT 2023.
GOV UK. Press release. Leading frontier AI companies publish safety [...]
U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Issues Civil Investigative Demand Schedule to OpenAI. FTC File No. 232-3044
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SWI. Where does Switzerland stand on regulating AI? Everyone seems to agree that there must be limits on what artificial intelligence (AI) is allowed to do. July 9, 2023.
SWI. Where does Switzerland stand on regulating AI? Everyone seems [...]
THE GUARDIAN. AI firms should face prison over creation of fake humans, says Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens author tells Geneva summit proliferation of fake people on social media could lead to collapse in democracy. 06 JULY 2023.
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TECH MONITOR. Japan becomes latest country proposing hands-off AI regulation, but businesses ‘likely to follow EU rules’ Despite enthusiasm among governments for ‘light touch’ AI regulation, Europe’s rules-base approach is likely to win out. 04 JULY 2023.
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OpenAI. Our structure. We designed OpenAI’s structure—a partnership between our original Nonprofit and a new capped profit arm—as a chassis for OpenAI’s mission: to build artificial general intelligence (AGI) that is safe and benefits all of humanity.
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EUROPEAN COMMISSION. Artificial intelligence: in Europe, innovation and safety go hand in hand | Statement by Commissioner Thierry Breton. 18 JUNE 2023.
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CNBC. TECH Europe takes aim at ChatGPT with what might soon be the West’s first A.I. law. Here’s what it means. MAY 15 2023
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Strategic Implications of Openness in AI Development (2107). Nick Bostrom. Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford.
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