The Galileo Affair began around 1610 and culminated with the trial and condemnation of Galileo Galilei by the Roman Catholic Inquisition in 1633.
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32 DAYS AGO at OXFORD UNION. Max Tegmark explains how quickly time is running out to manage the risks posed by AI. 29 NOV.
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32 DAYS AGO at OXFORD UNION. Jaan Tallinn argues that the extinction risk from AI is not just possible, but imminent. 29 NOV.
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EDITORIAL (opinion) 5 minute read. Thoughts and questions for our last weekend of 2023… about fear and love, humanity and AGI/ASI.
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9 MONTHS AGO. The A.I. Dilemma. March 9, 2023. Center for Humane Technology. Shocking Capabilities!
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18 MONTHS AGO… Digital Engine. Stunning AI shows how it would kill 90%. w Elon Musk. 21 JUL 2022.
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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 [...]
CNN. “Godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton Warns of the “Existential Threat” of AI | Amanpour and Company. 09 MAY.
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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! [...]
THE FUTURE OF WORK (Example). This virtual model works for free. (the Clueless agency is for hire)
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THE GUARDIAN. AI expert warns against telling your secrets to chatbots such as ChatGPT. The Christmas lectures were started by Michael Faraday in 1825 at the Royal Institution in London.
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CBS. Face The Nation. Opinion. Autonomous weapons. Social media. AI Transformation of our Society.
CBS. Face The Nation. Opinion. Autonomous weapons. Social media. [...]
WIRED. How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun. It’ll take over the world. It won’t subjugate humans. For Meta’s chief AI scientist, both things are true. 22 DEC.
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
arXiv. Exploiting Novel GPT-4 APIs. by FAR. More Evidence that so-called “Guardrails” are not fit-for-purpose (they don’t work). 21 DEC.
MORE EVIDENCE that so-called current "Guardrails" certainly are not [...]
NIST Calls for Information to Support Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. 19 DEC.
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OpenAI. Preparedness. The Preparedness team is dedicated to making frontier AI models safe. 18 DEC.
An important development from a leading AI company! [...]
LESSWRONG. “Humanity vs. AGI” Will Never Look Like “Humanity vs. AGI” to Humanity. 16th Dec 2023.
LESSWRONG. "Humanity vs. AGI" Will Never Look Like "Humanity vs. [...]
OpenAI. Weak-to-Strong Generalisation: Eliciting Strong Capabilities With Weak Supervision. [probably won’t work]
An interesting read from a respected source. However... Stuart [...]
AXIOS. Scoop: U.S. is leading “AI for good” push at UN. 13 DEC.
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
VATICAN NEWS. In World Peace Day message, Pope warns of risks of AI for peace. 14 DEC
Good to know that even The Pope believes that [...]
THE WHITE HOUSE. Delivering on the Promise of AI to Improve Health Outcomes. 14 DEC.
A very good start! 28 providers and payers commitments: [...]
Meta. Trust and safety. Welcome to Purple Llama. Empowering developers, advancing safety, and building an open ecosystem.
A very good start from a respected source! (but [...]
BUSINESS INSIDER. We now have more info on what Sam Altman did that was so bad he got fired from OpenAI. 10 DEC.
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
THE WASHINGTON POST. Opinion. AI is forcing teachers to confront an existential question. 12 DEC.
A very good read from a respected source! [...]
FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS. Bio X AI: Policy Recommendations For A New Frontier. 12 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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Gemini: Google’s newest and most capable AI model.
Wow! BRAVO to Google. Gemini is a very important [...]
The Transformative Potential of AGI — and When It Might Arrive | Shane Legg and Chris Anderson | TED
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WHAT can go wrong with a powerful WISH? [AGI Goal] EXAMPLE: Disney’s Fantasia (1940). Mickey Mouse in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. (Goethe & Dukas)
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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. Silicon Valley Confronts a Grim New A.I. Metric. Where do you fall on the doom scale — is artificial intelligence a threat to humankind? And if so, how high is the risk?
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BUSINESS INSIDER. Yeah, it was about money: “[The letter] was an audacious bluff and most staffers had no real interest in working for Microsoft.” “Many OpenAI employees “felt pressured” to sign the open letter.”
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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! [...]
BBC NEWS. Nvidia boss Jensen Huang confident about AI safety. 6 December 2023.
"I have every confidence that between all of our [...]
arXiv. Large Language Models on Graphs: A Comprehensive Survey. 05 DEC.
A good review of the rapidly developing LLM open [...]
The AI Alliance (IBM and Meta)
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META. AI Alliance Launches as an International Community of Leading Technology Developers, Researchers, and Adopters Collaborating Together to Advance Open, Safe, Responsible AI. December 4, 2023
An important development from industry leaders! The AI Alliance [...]
ETH Zurich. PRESS RELEASE. SUPERCOMPUTING. Joint initiative for trustworthy AI. 04 DEC.
An important development! FOR [...]
STEVE OMOHUNDRO. PROVABLY SAFE AGI – MIT MECHANISTIC INTERPRETABILITY CONFERENCE – MAY 7, 2023
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TOP-20 AGI Problems and TOP-20 Known AGI Mathematically Provable Containment and Control Solutions (alphabetical). Source. LESSWRONG
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AI ALIGNMENT FORUM. An Important RESOURCE aligned with LESSWRONG.
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INTERVIEW. Jensen Huang of Nvidia on the Future of A.I. | DealBook Summit 2023
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DON’T LOOK UP | Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence | Official Trailer | Netflix. BONUS FIND: Don’t Look Up | The Documentary: The Case For AI As An Existential Threat.
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LESSWRONG. Instrumental Convergence. Omohundro. Bostrom. References.
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Digital Engine. No, this angry AI isn’t fake (see comment), w Elon Musk. 09 OCT 2022
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CNN. ‘Godfather of AI’ warns that AI may figure out how to kill people. 03 MAY.
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UnHerd. Nick Bostrom: How AI will lead to tyranny. 10 NOV.
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Quanta Magazine. P vs. NP: The Biggest Puzzle in Computer Science
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Future of Life Institute. Steve Omohundro on Provably Safe AGI.
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Geoffrey Hinton: “So presently ninety-nine percent (99%) of the money is going into developing [AI] and one percent (1%) is going into safety. People are saying all these things might be dangerous so it should be more like 50/50.”
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AI Tools for Multimedia (New!)
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P(doom) Roundup. What probability do (super-smart) people put on AI killing everyone?
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Stanford HAI. How Well Do Large Language Models Support Clinician Information Needs? Stanford experts examine the safety and accuracy of GPT-4 in serving curbside consultation needs of doctors. Mar 31, 2023.
A very good read from a respected source! Apparently [...]
INDEPENDENT. OpenAI may have made a ‘dangerous’ artificial intelligence discover that led to chaos, Elon Musk says. Musk, who co-founded company, said he would ‘guess’ that something scared its board. 30 NOV.
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MSNBC. THE BEAT WITH ARI. Yuval Noah Harari on danger of AI. 30 NOV.
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REPORT. Thinking Inside the Box: Controlling and Using an Oracle AI. Stuart Armstrong. Anders Sandberg. Nick Bostrom. (2012) Minds and Machines.
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NATURE. Scaling deep learning for materials discovery. Google Deepmind. 29 NOV.
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Guardrails? Unfortunately NO. Mathematically provable containment, forever? YES. (sole option)
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REPORT. ASSESSING PROMPT INJECTION RISKS IN 200+ CUSTOM GPTS
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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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Amazon Q (Preview). Your generative AI–powered assistant designed for work that can be tailored to your business.
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NATURE. Learning few-shot imitation as cultural transmission. Google Deepmind.
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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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AWS Unveils Next Generation AWS-Designed Chips. AWS Graviton4 is the most powerful and energy-efficient AWS processor to date.
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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 [...]
P(doom). You may not like it, but this is what peak rationality looks like… from a forecasting expert.
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How to Keep AI Under Control | Max Tegmark | TED
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NATURE. Implementing quality management systems to close the AI translation gap and facilitate safe, ethical, and effective health AI solutions.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES. OPINION. DAVID BROOKS. The Fight for the Soul of A.I. Nov. 23, 2023.
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BUSINESS INSIDER. OpenAI’s chaos has both hastened the arms race to AI dominance and opened the door to competitors. 25 NOV.
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FT. OpenAI and the rift at the heart of Silicon Valley. The tech industry is divided over how best to develop AI, and whether it’s possible to balance safety with the pursuit of profits. 24 NOV.
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Chris Wallace with Kara Swisher. P(doom). Kara Swisher: “It could be a good thing. But it could also kill you.” 25 NOV.
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NATURE. NEWS EXPLAINER. What the OpenAI drama means for AI progress — and safety. A debacle at the company that built ChatGPT highlights concern that commercial forces are acting against the responsible development of artificial-intelligence systems. 23 November 2023.
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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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FT. OPINION. OpenAI has just fused its corporate ‘kill switch’. Abandoning attempts to hold the company to account for the impact of its technology would be a tragic mistake. 23 NOV.
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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 WASHINGTON POST. OpenAI and X: Promises of populist technology, shaped by a single man. 23 NOV.
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REUTERS. Exclusive: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say. 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 ECONOMIST. The fallout from the weirdness at OpenAI. Sam Altman is set to return, but the episode holds some disturbing lessons. 22 NOV.
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CNBC. How Meta could benefit from the OpenAI shakeup. 22 NOV.
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LLM Emergent Behavior: Learning Mathematics. A worrying development AND a promising power. (But FIRST DO NO HARM)
LLM Emergent Behavior: Q* at OpenAI is apparently Learning Mathematics. [...]
DAILY MAIL. Disgruntled OpenAI workers who left BEFORE Sam Altman’s brief ouster claim they were ‘pushed out’ to transition it to a for-profit model. A letter allegedly written by former OpenAI employees details ‘dishonest’ and ‘manipulative’ leadership by Altman and president Greg Brockman. The letter coincides with Altman’s reinstatement to the company five daysafter his shock ousting.
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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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QUARTZ. Nvidia stock hits an all-time high in anticipation of stellar earnings. As the generative AI wave keeps growing, the chip maker is reaping the windfall. 21 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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On with Kara Swisher. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the OpenAI Debacle. Listen to this episode from On with Kara Swisher on Spotify. In the swirl of drama around Sam Altman’s exit from OpenAI, one company seems to be the winner: Microsoft
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HUFFPOST. New OpenAI Leader’s Chilling ‘Doom’ Warning May Scare Your Pants Off. Emmett Shear voiced his concerns about the dangers of artificial intelligence in a resurfaced clip. 20 NOV.
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702 (100%) employees at OpenAI send a letter to the board requesting them to resign or else… 100% of OpenAI staff threaten to quit and go to Microsoft unless Altman is reinstated. 20 NOV.
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THE WASHINGTON POST. BUSINESS. The idea of OpenAI is dead. Now, Microsoft is in the driver’s seat. Sam Altman sold the world on the notion that a nonprofit could keep AI safe. That was before he was ousted. 20 NOV.
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