Will AI take over? A conversation with Jaan Tallinn. CogXNewsletters.
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Senator Scott Weiner, The lawmaker behind California’s vetoed AI bill SB 1047 has harsh words for Silicon Valley. TechCrunch. 02OCT24
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. PRESS RELEASE. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Raimondo and U.S. Secretary of State Blinken Announce Inaugural Convening of International Network of AI Safety Institutes in San Francisco.
The initial members of the International Network of AI [...]
REPORT: A Narrow Path. How to secure our future.
Excellent work! Solution not easy. Not simple. Probably workable. [...]
THE GUARDIAN. California won’t require big tech firms to test safety of AI after Newsom kills bill. Governor vetoes bill that would require generative AI safety testing after tech industry says it’d drive companies away.
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Governor Newsom Vetoes Safe AI Regulatory Bill SB 1047
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Why California Gov. Gavin Newsom should sign an AI model regulation bill. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Talks Future of AI.
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VOX | OpenAI as we knew it is dead | The maker of ChatGPT promised to share its profits with the public. But Sam Altman just sold you out.
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United Nations | Speaking of AI | President Biden and UN Secretary-General Guterres
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AN OPEN LETTER | ARTISTS CALL FOR GOV. NEWSOM TO SIGN SB 1047 | READ THE LETTER
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A Path for Science and Evidence‑based AI Policy
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Battle rages over US’s first binding AI safety bill in California Garrison Lovely profile picture Garrison Lovely Published: September 19, 2024
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MAX TEGMARK KEYNOTE ADDRESS | The Elders Intergenerational Dialogue: Are we ready to lead together?
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REAIM. Outcome of Responsible AI in Military Domain (REAIM) Summit 2024
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Press Release New YouGov National Poll Shows 80% Support for SB 1047 and AI Safety 09. 18. 2024 ESPA, a co-sponsor of the landmark AI legislation, commissioned the poll, which shows broad national bipartisan support for AI safety
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Evolution of Intelligence: Apes => Homo sapiens => Machine intelligence [5 million years + 70 years; we are now in 66th year]
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U.S. SENATE JUDICIARY | SUBCOMMITTEE ON PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE LAW | Oversight of AI: Insiders’ Perspectives
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Consensus Statement on AI Safety as a Global Public Good | IDAIS-Venice, 2024 VENICE, ITALY | September 5th-8th
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U.S. SENATE. Powerful witness testimony to the US Senate by OpenAI whistleblower William Saunders: “No one knows how to ensure that AGI systems will be safe and controlled”
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Yuval Noah Harari: “We Are on the Verge of Destroying Ourselves” | Amanpour and Company
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Stuart Russell: How do we prevent unsafe AI?
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THE VERGE. One of California’s most influential unions weighs in on AI safety bill. Newsom has until September 30th to decide SB 1047’s fate, and both sides are lobbying hard.
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OpenAI acknowledges new models increase risk of misuse to create bioweapons | Financial Times | 13 September 2p24
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California SB 1047 was a transformative law at a pivotal moment in human history. Mathematically provable containment and control of AI (Safe AI) is essential to the survival of Homo sapiens.
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The Future of AI Regulation: A California Bill Shaping the Debate | Carnegie Endowment | 12 SEPT 2024
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FT. The AI bill driving a wedge through Silicon Valley California’s Gavin Newsom has until September 30 to decide whether to sign legislation that will reach far beyond the state
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IMPORTANT LETTER to California Governor Newsom. Bengio, Hinton, Russell, et al.
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Frontier AI Employees Call for Governor Newsom to Sign SB 1047. This statement, signed by over 100 employees of frontier AI labs, was submitted to California Governor Newsom on September 9th, 2024. It calls on Governor Newsom to lead on AI regulation and sign California’s Senate Bill 1047 into law.
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SOLUTIONS TO EXISTENTIAL THREATS: The Artificial Intelligence Experts (3:21). The Elders: “It’s time for BOLD new thinking”.
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MSNBC. ‘AI is already able to manipulate people’: Expert warns of growing AI power.
"AIs are welcome to human conversations as long as [...]
MSNBC. ‘We are just seeing the beginning’ of AI’s impact on political discourse, expert warns.
"One of the things we know about history is [...]
Yuval Noah Hariri: “Freedom of speech is a human right. It is not a bot right.” | Fareed Zaharia | CNN
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CNBC. Estimated cost of cybercrime worldwide 2018-2029 (in trillion U.S. dollars)
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Can a Bayesian Oracle Prevent Harm from an Agent? | Bengio et al | 22 August 2024
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AGI-Driven Loss of Democratic Control | Professor Yoshua Bengio | The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) | 02Sept24.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES. OPINION. NICHOLAS KRISTOF. A.I. May Save Us or May Construct Viruses to Kill Us. July 27, 2024
"A.I. may also make it easier to manipulate people, [...]
Do not be fooled. Do not be naive. Alien intelligence is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. (Natural selection just happens)
Center for AI Safety Learn [...]
VOX. California’s governor has the chance to make AI history. Gavin Newsom could decide the future of AI safety. [Sign the Bill!]
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
THE NATION. Big Tech Is Very Afraid of a Very Modest AI Safety Bill. Despite claiming to support AI safety, powerful tech interests are trying to kill SB1047.
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NIST NEWS. NEWS U.S. AI Safety Institute Signs Agreements Regarding AI Safety Research, Testing and Evaluation With Anthropic and OpenAI. August 29, 2024
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PRESS RELEASE. Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco). Senator Wiener’s Landmark AI Bill Passes Assembly. AUGUST 28, 2024
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THE WASHINGTON POST. California AI bill [SB 1047] passes State Assembly, pushing AI fight to [Governor] Newsom. The bill, which seeks to make companies liable if their artificial intelligence harms people, is at the center of a debate over how to regulate the technology. 28AUG24.
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THE ECONOMIST. Is Xi Jinping an AI doomer? China’s elite is split over artificial intelligence. Aug 25th 2024. [Hint: it’s all about control]
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GINA RAIMONDO. “At the end of the day, any technology exists to serve humanity. And shame on us if we allow AI to be so runaway that it would lead to human extinction. Maybe it can, but how stupid are we if we let it. “
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OpenAI Whistleblower Speaks | Daniel Kokotajlo Interview | Hard Fork | The New York Times | 10,028 views. 7 Jun 2024.
"My p(doom) is higher than most people's [70%]. I [...]
SCIENCE. AI and biosecurity: The need for governance. 23AUG24.
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A Diplomat’s Guide to Autonomous Weapons Systems | Future of Life Institute
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EASY to Understand: FOOM (Fast Takeoff of AI) = DOOM (Catastrophic Outcome for Humans)
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BNN Bloomberg. AI will become smarter than humans: Geoffrey Hinton.
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Max Tegmark | On superhuman AI, future architectures, and the meaning of human existence. 20 MAY.
Max Tegmark | On superhuman AI, future architectures, and [...]
Human error… happens all the time. AI Engineers freely admit they have no idea how LLMs (AI) actually work inside, nor how to control them.
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U.S. SENATE. “Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act of 2023” or the “NO FAKES Act of 2023”
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CONTROL.AI | Peter Thiel & Joe Rogan | Mark Cuban & Jon Stewart | Demis Hassabis & Walter Issaccson | Elon Musk & Lex Fridman | Scott Aaronson & Alexis Papazoglou | Stuart Russell & Pat Joseph | Jaan Tallinn | Major General (Ret.) Robert Latiff | Former US Navy Secretary Richard Danzig |
CONTROL.AI | Peter Thiel & Joe Rogan | Mark [...]
IF The Money Always Wins, THEN Domestic/National Security Becomes a Priority. BECAUSE AGI/ASI Must Be Absolutely Safe. Be VERY careful what you wish for.
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THE REGISTER. California trims AI safety bill amid fears of tech exodus. And as Anthropic boss reckons there’s ‘a good chance … we’ll be able to get models that are better than most humans at most things’.
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THE MERCURY NEWS. California bill to regulate AI advances over tech opposition with some tweaks. SB 1047 would regulate large-scale AI models, protect whistleblowers
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FastCompany. California lawmakers are about to make a huge decision on the future of AI. Lawmakers will soon vote on a bill that would impose penalties on AI companies failing to safeguard and safety-test their biggest models.
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FORTUNE. Yoshua Bengio: California’s AI safety bill will protect consumers and innovation. BY YOSHUA BENGIO
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SB 1047 – Safe & Secure AI Innovation. Letter to CA state leadership from Professors Bengio, Hinton, Lessig, & Russell. 07 AUG 24.
“Powerful AI systems bring incredible promise, but the risks [...]
DIGITAL DEMOCRACY. CALMATTERS. Bills. SB 1047: Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act. Session Year: 2023-2024. House: Senate.
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The New York Times. A California Bill to Regulate A.I. Causes Alarm in Silicon Valley. 15AUG24.
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THINK. Would you drive across a bridge if the Bridge Engineers estimated 10-20% chance of total collapse? (DEATH)
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THINK. Would you get in an elevator if the Elevator Engineers estimated a 10-20% chance of catastrophic failure? (DEATH)
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THINK. Would you drive a CAR if the Automotive Engineers estimated a 10-20% CHANCE of autonomous total disaster? (DEATH)
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THINK. Would you ride a cable car if the Cable Car Engineers estimated a 10-20% chance of total disaster? (DEATH)
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THINK. Would you board a TRAIN if the Train Engineers estimated a 10-20% CHANCE of total disaster? (DEATH)
FACT: The average consensus of AI engineers of a [...]
THINK. Would you board a plane if the Aviation Engineers estimated a 10-20% chance of catastrophic failure? (DEATH)
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THINK. Would you board a cruise ship if the Ship Engineers estimated a 10-20% chance of sinking? (DEATH)
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EXAMPLE. Extreme Complexity in Engineering of Safe Airplanes. FAA Oversight of Aviation Manufacturing. JUNE 13, 2024
Would you board a plane if the aviation engineers [...]
Google. Introducing the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) and founding member organizations. Jul 18, 2024.
Good start. Where's absolute containment and control? [...]
AI Companies Fight to Stop California [AGI] Safety Rules. WSJ/Yahoo. Aug 8, 2024
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TIME. Exclusive: Renowned Experts Pen Support for California’s Landmark AI Safety Bill. 07 August 2024.
“I worry that technology companies will not solve these [...]
Opinion. There’s no way for humanity to win an AI arms race. We need to change the questions we’re asking AI and the information we’re giving it. THE WASHINGTON POST.
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AI Act enters into force [in EU]. European Commission. 01 August 2024.
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Teams of LLM Agents can Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerabilities. 04 JUNE 2024. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Every infrastructure in the world will be vulnerable to [...]
The Future of AI: Too Much to Handle? With Roman Yampolskiy and 3 Dutch MPs. Existential Risk Observatory.
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UAE Charter for the Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. July 2024.
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Gladstone AI. An Action Plan to increase the safety and security of advanced AI. Commissioned by the U.S. State Department.
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Episode #35. “The AI Risk Investigators: Inside Gladstone AI, Part 1 & 2” For Humanity Podcast
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Jaan Tallinn: As of July 2024, my top priorities for reducing existential risks from Al are these.
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GOV UK. International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI.
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“Humans + AGI = Harmony?” Episode #32 TRAILER, For Humanity: An AI Risk Podcast.
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Arguing Machines: Human Supervision of Black Box AI Systems That Make Life-Critical Decisions (2018). Lex Fridman, Li Ding, Benedikt Jenik, Bryan Reimer. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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GATEKEEPERS. European Commission Digital Markets Act (DMA). The Digital Markets Act is the EU’s law to make the markets in the digital sector fairer and more contestable
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DLA Piper. California’s SB-1047: Understanding the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act.
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Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #431
"The problem of controlling AGI or super intelligence, in [...]
PRESS RELEASE. Senator Wiener’s Landmark AI Safety And Innovation Bill Passes Assembly Privacy Committee. JUNE 19, 2024.
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CA vs. SV. Homo sapiens vs. Machine intelligence. The gloves are off! The fight for the future of humanity begins.
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FORBES. Google Chrome Will Track You For The Next 200 Days—Then It May Get Worse.
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
About The Group of Seven (G7)
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PRESS RELEASE. In A Bipartisan Vote, Senate Passes Senator Wiener’s Landmark AI Safety And Innovation Bill . MAY 21, 2024.
Silicon Valley (SV) literally begged for regulation from lawmakers. [...]
FT. Silicon Valley in uproar over Californian AI safety bill. Tech companies launch fightback against proposed law to introduce ‘kill switch’ on powerful artificial intelligence models.
A very important read from an extremely respected source [...]
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead. Leopold Aschenbrenner, June 2024.
A very good read from a respected source! Be [...]
Forbes. Vinod Khosla, Marc Andreessen And The Billionaire Battle For AI’s Future. 04 JUNE.
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CNBC. Current and former OpenAI employees warn of AI’s ‘serious risk’ and lack of oversight. O4 JUNE.
OPEN LETTER. A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial [...]
Ten simple facts. Homo sapiens vs. Machine intelligence
Be VERY careful what you wish for! [...]
THE REGISTER. SECURITY. Mystery miscreant remotely bricked 600,000 SOHO routers with malicious firmware. Source and motive of ‘Pumpkin Eclipse’ assault unknown. 31 May 2024
A very good read from a respected source! "this [...]
SCIENCE. Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress Preparation requires technical research and development, as well as adaptive, proactive governance. 20 MAY.
A very important read from extremely respected and knowledgable [...]