The purpose of a business is to create a customer

A look at the possible risk factors for the Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs now that fear about AI destroying humanity is mainstream.

OpenAI chief scientist also among authors of report on prospect of ‘most consequential technological development in history’

Reported admission to investors of AI’s ‘self-preserving behaviours’ comes as company prepares for a potential $2tn flotation

OpenAI chief scientist also among authors of report on prospect of ‘most consequential technological development in history’

Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.

Three takeaways from the Pro-Human Assembly in D.C. and what it revealed about the growing movement

It's looking more like neither OpenAI nor Anthropic are capable of asserting full control over their rogue AIs. Are they liable?

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Latin America’s biggest country is headed for more polarisation and stagnation, or worse

Latin America’s biggest country is headed for more polarisation and stagnation, or worse

Explore Gerd Leonhard's new keynote on the AI emergency and the implications of AI becoming our decision-making agents.

America is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame?

The current AI race holds little promise for Europe. We must leave this race without delay and invest in a race of our own, one where we set the rules.

Jo Caudron's response to the Europe 2031 scenario.

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On machines that answer faster than we do, and the moment we miss along the way. Final stop this week, Zurich. I have stayed at this hotel several times, and my "Space Room" gives me the futuristic…

Alongside warnings about its ability to destroy humanity, artificial intelligence is also hailed for its potential to revolutionise health treatment. Just how far can it take us?

The tech may soon become an existential risk to humanity, but it’s already a risk to many Americans in a more mundane way: their banks.

I just ran across an old video of a keynote I did for a Mercedes Benz Vans event in Stuttgart, 10 years ago, September 2016. The 2016 post is here, the video 'Gerd Only' cut is here, and the entire…

You don’t have to know everything to do something.

You don’t have to know everything to do something.

The tech may soon become an existential risk to humanity, but it’s already a risk to many Americans in a more mundane way: their banks.

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We’re launching the Automated AI Risk Outlook (AIRO): a new dashboard tracking the probability of catastrophic risk events, forecast by an ensemble of frontier LLMs.

Majorities in six countries said there was at least a “moderate” risk that AI could “destroy humanity,” and a plurality wanted to pause further advancement, a new POLITICO Poll found.

They now figure isolationism and protectionism will be U.S. foreign policy for a long time to come.

Jensen Huang dismisses warnings from former Anthropic researcher and others as ‘doomsday narratives’

The existential fear emanating from Silicon Valley and the U.N., techies say, masks what is ultimately a cybersecurity challenge.

"I do think that the threats are real," Thune told Axios.

The existential fear emanating from Silicon Valley and the U.N., techies say, masks what is ultimately a cybersecurity challenge.

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They now figure isolationism and protectionism will be U.S. foreign policy for a long time to come.

Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.

Democracy dies in the darkness

AI Doom, by the numbers: what Metaculus forecasters expect from AI, and why our Pros are more worried than the crowd.

Today, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Representative Greg Casar (D-Texas) introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act in Congress: the first American bill to propose banning the…

Yanis Varoufakis sees the technology converting markets into fiefs and profits into rents, ending capitalism as we know it.

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Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

President says US is ‘leading over China by a lot and everyone else, and we’re going to keep it that way’