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ABC NEWS. Schumer unveils new AI framework as Congress wades into regulatory space. Experts warn AI could pose a serious threat. 21 JUNE 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. ABC NEWS. Schumer unveils new AI framework as Congress wades into regulatory space. Experts warn AI could pose a serious threat. 21 JUNE 2023 Congress is in a race against the clock [...]
THE WHITE HOUSE. Remarks by President Biden on Seizing the Opportunities and Managing the Risks of Artificial Intelligence. JUNE 20, 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE WHITE HOUSE. Remarks by President Biden on Seizing the Opportunities and Managing the Risks of Artificial Intelligence. JUNE 20, 2023 The Fairmont San Francisco, California 1:13 P.M. PDT THE PRESIDENT: Well, [...]
MEGATHREAT. Why AI Is So Dangerous & How It Could Destroy Humanity | Mo Gawdat | 20 JUNE 2023.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. MEGATHREAT. Why AI Is So Dangerous & How It Could Destroy Humanity | Mo Gawdat | 20 JUNE 2023. "There is so much of AI we don't understand... there are emerging [...]
EUROPEAN COMMISSION. Artificial intelligence: in Europe, innovation and safety go hand in hand | Statement by Commissioner Thierry Breton. 18 JUNE 2023.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. EUROPEAN COMMISSION. Artificial intelligence: in Europe, innovation and safety go hand in hand | Statement by Commissioner Thierry Breton. 18 JUNE 2023. Artificial Intelligence will revolutionise many aspects of our lives. A bit [...]
TASRA: a Taxonomy and Analysis of Societal-Scale Risks from AI. Stuart Russell. Andrew Critch. 16 JUNE 2023.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. An EXCELLENT resource for AI Safety engineering, governance and policy. Download PDF FLI Newsletter: "Categorizing Societal-Scale AI Risks: AI researchers Andrew Critch and Stuart Russell developed an exhaustive taxonomy, centred on accountability, [...]
THE REGISTER. Open the pod bay doors, GPT, and see if you’re smart enough for the real world. The combination of LLMs and autonomous agents will pour fuel on AI anxiety. 15 JUNE 2023 [Q: Do GOVs regulate nuclear materials?]
For those who understand the danger of autonomous AI with goals...this is very bad news. Q: Do governments regulate nuclear materials? YES. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE REGISTER. Open the pod bay [...]
CNN. 42% of CEOs say AI could destroy humanity in five to ten years. 14 JUNE 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. About CEO p(doom)? A very good read from a respected source! CNN. 42% of CEOs say AI could destroy humanity in five to ten years. 14 JUNE 2023 [...]
STEPHEN HAWKING. I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. Once humans develop artificial intelligence that will take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans who are limited by slow biological evolution couldn’t compete and would be superseded.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. STEPHEN HAWKING. I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. Once humans develop artificial intelligence that will take off on its own and redesign [...]
BBC NEWS. Technology. Five key challenges to make AI safe. 13 JUNE 2023.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. BBC NEWS. Technology. Five key challenges to make AI safe. 13 JUNE 2023. By Zoe Kleinman and Philippa Wain Technology editor Artificial-intelligence experts generally follow one of two schools of thought - [...]
GOV.UK. Press release. Dowden: world-class crisis capabilities deployed to defeat biological threats of tomorrow. Biological Security Strategy will defend the UK from infectious disease outbreaks, antimicrobial resistance, and biological incidents and attacks. 12 June 2023.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. GOV.UK. Press release. Dowden: world-class crisis capabilities deployed to defeat biological threats of tomorrow Biological Security Strategy will defend the UK from infectious disease outbreaks, antimicrobial resistance, and biological incidents and attacks. [...]
“Emergent Ability of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)” defined…
by BiocommAI EXAMPLES: Sam Altman: “I guess the thing that I lose the most sleep over is that we already have done something really bad. I don’t think we have. But the hypothetical that we, by launching ChatGPT into the world, shot the industry out of a railgun, and [...]
GOV.UK. Cabinet Office. Policy paper. UK Biological Security Strategy (HTML). 12 June 2023. [and… FT. Opinion . Biotech. Governments are waking up to biosecurity risks — but we must act fast. We have a narrow window during which to harness AI for good, rather than ill.]
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. GOV.UK. Cabinet Office. Policy paper. UK Biological Security Strategy (HTML). Published 12 June 2023 Foreword Deputy Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster In the dark [...]
Fareed Zakaria & Geoffrey Hinton. AND Andrew Ng & Geoffrey Hinton. Does AI already threaten humanity? 11 JUNE 2023.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. "We don't know any examples of more intelligent things being controlled by less intelligent things... These things will get much more intelligent than us. And the worry is, can we keep them working for us [...]
Piers Morgan Uncensored. Mo Gawdat Warns The Dangers of AI Are “Happening As We Speak”. 11 JUNE 2023.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Piers Morgan Uncensored. Mo Gawdat Warns The Dangers of AI Are "Happening As We Speak". 11 JUNE 2023. We always had three boundaries if you want AI [safety] we said don’t [...]
THE INDEPENDENT. US looking to UK to lead the effort on AI regulation talks, Biden says. The US president said there was no-one ‘we have greater faith in being able to negotiate this’ than Rishi Sunak. 08 JUNE 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE INDEPENDENT. US looking to UK to lead the effort on AI regulation talks, Biden says. The US president said there was no-one ‘we have greater faith in being able to negotiate [...]
GOV UK. Press release. UK to host first global summit on Artificial Intelligence. 07 JUNE 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. AI could transform our lives for the better if used safely and securely. No one country can do this alone - it'll take a global effort. But with our expertise and commitment [...]
WARNING SIGN. “Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence” – Microsoft
"Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence" - Microsoft "We contend that (this early version of) GPT-4 is part of a new cohort of LLMs (along with ChatGPT and Google's PaLM for example) that exhibit more general intelligence than previous AI models. We discuss the rising capabilities and implications of these [...]
“PROBABLY NOT”? GPT-4 System Card: “Finally, we facilitated a preliminary model evaluation by the Alignment Research Center (ARC) of GPT-4’s ability to carry out actions to autonomously replicate (5) and gather resources—a risk that, while speculative, may become possible with sufficiently advanced AI systems—with the conclusion that the current model is probably not yet capable of autonomously doing so.”
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Our Opinion: Unfortunately, "probably not" AND "maybe" AND " do our best" AND "I don't think" AND "I think" AND "could reasonably be" are not definitive enough for global public safety and [...]
GOOGLE. SAFETY & SECURITY. Introducing Google’s Secure AI Framework. Jun 08, 2023.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. GOOGLE. SAFETY & SECURITY. Introducing Google’s Secure AI Framework. Jun 08, 2023. Today we're releasing a conceptual framework to help collaboratively secure AI technology. The potential of AI, especially generative AI, is [...]
JAMA NETWORK. Evaluating Artificial Intelligence Responses to Public Health Questions. Ayers, Zhu, Poliak. June 7, 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. JAMA NETWORK. Evaluating Artificial Intelligence Responses to Public Health Questions. Ayers, Zhu, Poliak. June 7, 2023 John W. Ayers, PhD, MA1,2; Zechariah Zhu, BS1; Adam Poliak, PhD3; et alEric C. Leas, PhD, MPH1,4; Mark Dredze, PhD5; Michael Hogarth, MD6,7; Davey M. Smith, MD, MAS2,7 Author Affiliations [...]
THE WASHINGTON POST. Opinion. AI is at a dangerous juncture. June 7, 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE WASHINGTON POST. Opinion. AI is at a dangerous juncture. June 7, 2023 By Robert Wright. Robert Wright, whose books include “The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life” and “Nonzero: The [...]
THE GUARDIAN. Interview ‘What should the limits be?’ The father of ChatGPT on whether AI will save humanity – or destroy it. 07 JUNE 2023
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE GUARDIAN. Interview ‘What should the limits be?’ The father of ChatGPT on whether AI will save humanity – or destroy it. 07 JUNE 2023 Sam Altman is among the most vocal [...]
MARC ANDREESSEN. [Inventor of the first web browser and leading tech investor]. Why AI Will [Hopefully] Save The World. 06 JUN 2023. with Editorial Comment.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Editor comment: If the Construction Engineers were to say to you... "We built this airplane but there is a 10% probability it will certainly crash." Do you fly? "We are building a [...]