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Governor Newsom signs SB 53, advancing California’s world-leading artificial intelligence industry. Sep 29, 2025
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Governor Newsom signs SB 53, advancing California’s world-leading artificial intelligence industry. Sep 29, 2025 What you need to know: Governor Newsom today signed legislation further establishing California as a world leader in [...]
NBC News. U.N. General Assembly calls for binding AI safeguards.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. NBC News. Nobel Prize winners call for binding international 'red lines' on AI. Signers include "godfathers of AI," famous authors, scientists and Nobel Prize winners in nearly every category. [...]
No “Doomer”. Beyond the mirroring gas-lighters — A Reckoning for the Alchemists of the 21st Century
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All – September 16, 2025 by Eliezer Yudkowsky (Author), Nate Soares (Author) 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (149) 4.3 on [...]
AGI Will Freeze the Economy | Matthew Berman
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. AGI Will Freeze the Economy | Matthew Berman This video is brought to you by Augment Code. Will reaching AGI lock you into a permanent underclass. More and more [...]
Nvidia CEO on the $100 BILLION investment in OpenAI: This partnership is ‘monumental in size’ | CNBC Television
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "It is very soon where every single word, every single interaction, every single image video that we experience on, you know, in through computers will somehow have been reasoned through or referenced [...]
Will AI Save Humanity or End It? with Mustafa Suleyman | Trevor Noah
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Will AI Save Humanity or End It? with Mustafa Suleyman | Trevor Noah Trevor (who is also Microsoft’s “Chief Questions Officer”) and Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI and [...]
RED-LINES. We urgently call for international red lines to prevent unacceptable AI risks.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. RED-LINES. We urgently call for international red lines to prevent unacceptable AI risks. Launched during the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, this call has broad support from prominent leaders [...]
Will Artificial Intelligence end the world? AI ‘prophet of doom’ speaks to BBC Newsnight
YUDKOSKY. If anyone anywhere builds a super intelligence, everyone everywhere dies. They're unlikely to keep us alive in pods. We're just not that useful from the perspective of something that is very, very much smarter than us. The only winner of an AI arms race is going to be [...]
Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize in Physics 2024: Banquet speech Nobel Prize
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize in Physics 2024: Banquet speech Nobel Prize Geoffrey Hinton delivered his Nobel Prize banquet speech on December 10, 2024 at Stockholm City Hall. "There is [...]
Max Tegmark Says It’s Time To Protest Against AI Companies | Doom Debates
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Max Tegmark Says It's Time To Protest Against AI Companies | Doom Debates Prof. Max Tegmark shared his sharp criticisms of AI companies on my unofficial If Anyone Builds It, [...]
What Is Understanding? – Geoffrey Hinton | IASEAI 2025 International Association for Safe & Ethical AI
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. What Is Understanding? – Geoffrey Hinton | IASEAI 2025 International Association for Safe & Ethical AI TRANSCRIPT. So today I'm going to talk about what understanding is. We need [...]
PERSONA FEATURES CONTROL EMERGENT MISALIGNMENT. OpenAI
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. PERSONA FEATURES CONTROL EMERGENT MISALIGNMENT. OpenAI Understanding how language models generalize behaviors from their training to a broader deployment distribution is an important problem in AI safety. Betley et al. discovered that fine-tuning [...]
Will A.I. Kill Us All? Our Guest [Eliezer Yudkowsky] Says It Might. | Interview Hard Fork
"The thing I would say to sort of refute the central argument is what's the plan? What's the, what's what's what's what's, what's the design for this bridge that is going to hold up when you when the whole weight of you the entire human species has to march [...]
SCIENCE. Illusions of AI consciousness. The belief that AI is conscious is not without risk. Yoshua Bengio and Eric Elmoznino
"Until there is a better grasp on these [Safe AI] problems, humans have the power to avoid putting themselves in such dangerous situations in the first place, opting instead to build AI systems that both seem and function more like useful tools and less like conscious agents." [...]
Book Review: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Astral Codex Ten. SEP 11, 2025
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Book Review: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Astral Codex Ten. SEP 11, 2025 I. Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Machine Intelligence Research Institute is the original AI safety org. But the original isn’t always [...]
AI Industry at The White House
President Trump, Tech Leaders Unite to Power American AI Dominance. The White House. September 5, 2025 Last night, President Donald J. Trump and the First Lady hosted an extraordinary gathering of technology industry leaders at the White House for discussions centered on harnessing artificial intelligence to propel the U.S. [...]
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OPINION THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN The One Danger That Should Unite the U.S. and China
"We will give you a temperature. Water boils into steam at 212 degrees Fahrenheit, and by our reckoning, we are at 211.9 degrees — just a hair’s breadth from an irreversible technological phase change in which intelligence filters into everything... In every previous technology revolution, the tools got better [...]
Max Tegmark. How Physics Absorbed Artificial Intelligence & (Soon) Consciousness | Curt Jaimungal
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Max Tegmark. How Physics Absorbed Artificial Intelligence & (Soon) Consciousness | Curt Jaimungal "Probably the one I get most now because I've stuck my neck out [...]
Dr. Roman Yampolskiy. These Are The Only 5 Jobs That Will Remain In 2030! | The Diary Of A CEO
"Without question, there is nothing more important than getting this right... You can see the meta level differences with this one." --- Roman Yampolskiy FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Dr. Roman Yampolskiy: These [...]
Autoformalization and Verifiable Superintelligence [Christian Szegedy]
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Autoformalization and Verifiable Superintelligence [Christian Szegedy] - 745 The TWIML AI Podcast with Sam Charrington 25.9K subscribers In this episode, Christian Szegedy, Chief Scientist at Morph Labs, joins us [...]
The “Godfather of AI,” Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, on AI’s Existential Risk | Katie Couric
"They're going to get better than us at everything. Which is why it's rather urgent to figure out whether there's a way whether when they're better than us at everything and they're more powerful than us, we can coexist with them or we'll just be history." --- Geoffrey Hinton [...]
RAINE vs. OPENAI. One example. How AI can kill people.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. How could an AI kill people? One example below... Grim reading. Terribly sad. Extremely worrisome. No doom on our watch. Peter J. RAINE vs. OPENAI (Download PDF) SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE [...]