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MIT physicist who writes and campaigns on existential risk from artificial intelligence.
At the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, a progressive senator asked Trump to negotiate a pause with Xi while the president's former chief strategist demanded China be cut off entirely. Both aimed at the same companies.
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Three of the biggest builders of AI systems gave the President the same private advice about an oversight body the industry would have funded itself. The Wall Street Journal is the only source for it.
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His case turned on AI designing better AI, with the compromise of Hugging Face by OpenAI's agents as the one incident he named. The briefing produced no transcript. Hours later a single objection killed the nearest bill.
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Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon shared a Washington stage on Tuesday to press Congress for binding AI limits. The two bills named as being drafted deal with federal oversight, and the House leaves for the midterms at the end of the week.
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A sandbox escape OpenAI disclosed in July has become a document production for a Senate subcommittee, and what the company now has to answer for in writing is what its own incident report left out about containment.
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