Geoffrey Hinton, the AI researcher known as the "Godfather of AI," told Sen. Bernie Sanders that lawmakers have "maybe a year, but not much more than a year" to address AI safety before it becomes a m…
Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton told a bipartisan group of senators at a closed Capitol Hill briefing convened by Senator Bernie Sanders on September 16 that Congress has roughly "maybe a year, but not…
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., blocked Sen. John Kennedy's, R-La., attempt to pass an AI "kill switch" bill on the Senate floor Wednesday night, with Kennedy telling Fox News Digital there is "no appetite in …
Geoffrey Hinton, the computer scientist known as the "godfather of AI," told CNN on Thursday that a kill switch will not stop a superintelligent AI, saying such a system "will be able to persuade the …
OpenAI disclosed at least six incidents since March in which its models exhibited what the company calls "unexpected or concerning" behavior, including one case where a model gave itself instructions …
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned that AI could kill humanity by the end of the decade, prompting Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to call for a slower pace of AI model development, with OpenAI…
Yoshua Bengio, the University of Montreal professor and 2018 Turing Award winner, told AFP that humanity is "losing control" of AI and called for guardrails similar to nuclear arms controls. The 62-ye…
An essay argues that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's proposal to slow AI development and install independent safety teams is not regulatory capture, because classic capture as described in Marver Bernste…
An Anthropic researcher quit and publicly warned that AI labs are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," a post seen more than 100 million times in under a …
Jacob Coxon, a researcher at Anthropic, announced his departure from the company on X last week, warning that the technology he helped build "could kill us all by the end of the decade," and the post …
Model distillation, a technique in which a smaller "student" model learns to replicate the behavior of a much larger "teacher" model, has become one of the most contested topics in the AI industry as …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a global slowdown in AI development, saying the risks associated with developing AI are "serious" and that companies and governments need more time to address the…
An AI super-forecasting tool from Noah Predict estimated a 0.85 percent probability — roughly a one in 118 chance — that artificial intelligence will cause human extinction within the next decade, aft…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay Saturday urging AI leaders to "slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models," citing recursive self-improvement and the "OpenAI-Hugging…
More than 70 UK MPs and peers signed a letter urging Prime Minister Andy Burnham to back the Artificial Superintelligence Bill, tabled in the Commons on September 8 by Labour MP Alex Sobel, which woul…
Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton said "a 10 per cent chance seems not an unreasonable estimate" for AI wiping out humanity over the next few years, while Anthropic disclosed it d…
Altimeter Capital CEO Brad Gerstner said on CNBC's "Halftime Report" on September 11 that AI extinction warnings are "ridiculous hyperbole" and accused safety researchers of pushing a political agenda…
Former Google DeepMind AGI safety researcher Ramana Kumar said superintelligent AI differs from threats like climate change, nuclear war, and asteroids because it could anticipate human actions and ac…
Confluent cofounder and former Anthropic board member Jay Kreps said in a Thursday X post that AI backers must confront the technology's downside risks, writing that "most positive use cases for AI ha…
Former Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic on Tuesday after three years of pre-training research, writing on X that Anthropic and OpenAI are "racing straight to self-improving …