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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Fortune. Exodus at OpenAI: Nearly half of AGI safety staffers have left, says former researcher. 28 August 2024.
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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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Transformative AI (TAI) | AI that precipitates a transition comparable to (or more significant than) the agricultural or industrial revolution | Be VERY careful what you wish for!
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PauseAI Newsletter: August 26, 2024. The world’s largest companies begin to worry about the effects of AI. Meanwhile, we get one of our clearest warning shots yet.
Extremely concerning data. Worth a quick read! [...]
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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PBS NewsHour. As artificial intelligence rapidly advances, experts debate level of threat to humanity. [Be VERY careful what you wish for! AI must be controlled.]
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Beneficial AI Foundation (BAIF). No one knows how to make tomorrow’s AI safe. Let’s change that.
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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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AI Alliance | BUILDING THE OPEN FUTURE OF AI | We are technology developers, researchers, industry leaders and advocates who collaborate to advance safe, responsible AI rooted in open innovation.
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BNN Bloomberg. AI will become smarter than humans: Geoffrey Hinton.
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A.I. Humanity’s Final Invention?
An informative primer on the natural history of intelligence, [...]
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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Elon Musk: At some point AI will be smarter than all humans combined. Superintelligence could be a great filter (it could wipe out humanity). xAI (his company) could build it first.
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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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PRESS RELEASE. Senator Wiener’s Groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence Bill Advances To The Assembly Floor With Amendments Responding To Industry Engagement. AUGUST 15, 2024
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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 [...]
What can possibly go wrong with a good wish? [Hint: You already know.]
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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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OpenAI’s Scott Aaronson: AI companies are doing AI gain-of-function research, trying to get AIs to help with biological and chemical weapons production. If AI can walk you through every step of building a chemical weapon, that would be very concerning.
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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: We don’t know how to contain an AGI. We don’t know how to test for dangerous AI capabilities. We should cooperate internationally and build an AI CERN to ensure AI is developed safely.
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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 [...]
ANTHROPIC. Interpretability. Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model. 21 May 2024.
Good news: AI may be interpretable (and controllable?)... someday. [...]
Google. Introducing the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) and founding member organizations. Jul 18, 2024.
Good start. Where's absolute containment and control? [...]
AI GROKKING. ChatGPT unexpectedly began speaking in a user’s cloned voice during testing. Ars Technika. 09 August 2024.
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Elon Musk tells Tucker potential dangers of hyper-intelligent AI. FOX NEWS (1 year ago)
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RAND |. AI Security: Safeguarding Large Language Models and Why This Matters for the Future of Geopolitics | 341 views 8 Aug 2024 |
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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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The Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI). Making AI Systems Secure for All.
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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 [...]
Control AI Tweets. AI Thought Leaders. VERY concerning!
Learn more at Control AI and Pause AI and [...]
TWITTER. Ex-OpenAI safety researcher William Saunders: “We fundamentally don’t know how AI works inside.”
The scientific facts: LLMs are a black box. AI [...]
California Live! presents Will AI Be Humanity’s Last Act? with Stuart Russell
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Proof-carrying code [for Safe AI] was originally described in 1996 by George Necula and Peter Lee.
Proof-carrying code Proof-carrying code (PCC) is a software mechanism that [...]
AI safety is doomed to fail | Roman Yampolskiy and Lex Fridman | Lex Clips
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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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SCHEMING MODELS. Anthropic research shows that AI models can learn dangerous goals and motivations, retain them even after safety training, and deceive human users about actions taken in their pursuit. 1 Jul 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.
“Humans + AGI = Harmony?” Episode #32 TRAILER, For [...]
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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DLA Piper. California’s SB-1047: Understanding the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act.
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PRESS RELEASE. Senator Wiener’s Landmark AI Safety And Innovation Bill Passes Assembly Privacy Committee. JUNE 19, 2024.
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TechCrunch. Security bug allows anyone to spoof Microsoft employee emails. June 18, 2024.
Unfortunately, by definition openly published LLM weights are not [...]
CA vs. SV. Homo sapiens vs. Machine intelligence. The gloves are off! The fight for the future of humanity begins.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
THE NEW YORK TIMES. OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance. A group of current and former employees is calling for sweeping changes to the artificial intelligence industry, including greater transparency and protections for whistle-blowers.
A very good read from a respected source! "The [...]
OPINION: AI is not “Open Source Software”. AI is a new, alien, digital species – Machine intelligence – being created by Homo sapiens.
Relevant opinion. Common knowledge: (A) "open source" is software, [...]
Ten simple facts. Homo sapiens vs. Machine intelligence
Be VERY careful what you wish for! [...]
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 [...]
“They Make Me Sick”. So SIMPLE- even A CHILD can Understand the Existential Danger of AI (in 75 seconds)
SO SIMPLE! Even a CHILD can Understand the Existential [...]
THE GUARDIAN. Big tech has distracted world from existential risk of AI, says top scientist. Max Tegmark argues that the downplaying is not accidental and threatens to delay, until it’s too late, the strict regulations needed.
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GOV.UK. Policy paper Seoul Declaration for safe, innovative and inclusive AI by participants attending the Leaders’ Session: AI Seoul Summit, 21 May 2024 Published 21 May 2024
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AI Safety Summit Talks with Yoshua Bengio. Existential Risk Observatory. 21 MAY.
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BLOOMBERG. Opinion. Tyler Cowen, Columnist. The AI ‘Safety Movement’ Is Dead. [REALLY ?] Public pressure to rein in artificial intelligence may be waning, but the work of making these systems less risky is just beginning. [YES. REALLY.] 21 May 2024
A relevant opinion from a respected source... good luck [...]
SEMINAL REPORT. Towards Guaranteed Safe AI: A Framework for Ensuring Robust and Reliable AI Systems. 10 MAY 2024.
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A ROADMAP FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POLICY IN THE U.S. SENATE. Driving U.S. innovation in Artificial Intelligence. The Bipartisan Senate AI Working Group.
GOOD READ. IMPORTANT REPORT: Responsible bipartisan lawmakers doing their [...]
WIRED. A National Security Insider Does the Math on the Dangers of AI Jason Matheny, CEO of the influential think tank Rand Corporation, says advances in AI are making it easier to learn how to build biological weapons and other tools of destruction.
A very important read from a highly respected source! [...]
VOX. “I lost trust”: Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded. Company insiders explain why safety-conscious employees are leaving.
A very important read from a respected source! [...]
EXTREME PROCESSING ADVANTAGE TODAY. 50 bits per second (human) vs. 1000 Trillion bits per second (AI Rack). NO COMPETITION ALLOWED.
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Actual p(doom) predictions by AI experts. The future survival of humanity to co-exist with AI is uncertain. Uncertain Human Survival is Unacceptable.
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Homo sapiens (humans) Create a New Species: Machine intelligence (super-human digital brains). Will they become lawless? (the future is uncertain)
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UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL. Press release. 13 May 2024. The UK’S fastest and most powerful supercomputer, located at the University of Bristol, is now officially online, with pioneering technology helping to make the UK a world leader in artificial intelligence.
“Ground-breaking moment for science, innovation and technology” as UK’s [...]