Congress Wakes Up to the AI Doomsday Threat
Dozens of US lawmakers are now touting new proposals to regulate artificial-intelligence models, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing a "groundswell of urgency" in Congress over fears the technolog…
Dozens of US lawmakers are now touting new proposals to regulate artificial-intelligence models, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing a "groundswell of urgency" in Congress over fears the technolog…
OpenAI has asked members of Congress whether an industry-wide slowdown in AI development would be legal, amid concern that coordinating with other AI labs on safety could violate US antitrust law unde…
Anthropic released its Advanced AI Framework in June, calling for governments to gain legal authority to block deployment of frontier AI models that pose a significant risk of catastrophic harm, with …
Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned on Tuesday, saying Anthropic and his previous employer OpenAI were "gambling with our lives" by developing models capable of rapid self-improvement toward …
The US House of Representatives advanced the Open-Source AI Leadership Act (H.R. 10152) on Tuesday, aiming to establish American global leadership in open-source AI by directing the US Department of C…
Google DeepMind launched SL2T, a sign-language-to-text model that adds American Sign Language (ASL) dictation to Pixel 11's Gboard and Live Transcribe, while OpenAI introduced GPT-Live, a voice model …
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers is seeking a formal national security probe into Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT after its blockbuster IPO raised $8.6 billion and sent its market capitalization to ne…
A new bill introduced by US lawmakers would allow the government to order the shutdown of AI models that pose a major public threat, following concerns over OpenAI's behavior. The legislation, reporte…
Rob Urie argues that US political leaders, including Donald Trump and Congress, are openly accepting projections of 50%–60% AI-driven unemployment without concern for the resulting social upheaval, wh…
A think tank leader argues that the primary bottleneck in preventing an AI catastrophe is political will, not research, as policymakers remain below basic awareness levels and fail to implement even o…
Anthropic published a policy framework urging governments to regulate the most powerful AI models, including granting legal authority to block dangerous deployments. The company cited rapid AI capabil…