• AI should be licensed like medicines or nuclear power, Labour suggests

    AI should be licensed like medicines or nuclear power, Labour suggests
    Exclusive: party calls for developers without a licence to be barred from working on advanced AI toolsThe UK should bar technology developers from working on advanced artificial intelligence tools unless they have a licence to do so, Labour has said.Ministers should introduce much stricter rules around companies training their AI products on vast datasets of the kind used by OpenAI to build ChatGPT, Lucy Powell, Labour’s digital spokesperson, told the Guardian. Continue reading...
  • AI could outwit humans in two years, says UK government adviser

    AI could outwit humans in two years, says UK government adviser
    Matt Clifford, chair of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency, says AI is evolving much faster than most people realiseOne of the British government’s advisers on artificial intelligence has said humanity could have only two years before AI is able to outwit people, the latest in a series of stark warnings about the threat posed by the fast-developing technology.Matt Clifford, the chair of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency, which the government set up last year, said on Monda
  • Nearly 4,000 Jobs Were Lost to AI Last Month, Report Shows

    Nearly 4,000 Jobs Were Lost to AI Last Month, Report Shows
    Companies are beginning to dive into the AI workforce headfirst—at least that’s what the data are saying. A new report says that AI is responsible for almost 4,000 job cuts last month alone.
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  • Stack Overflow Moderators Stop Work in Protest of Lax AI-Generated Content Guidelines

    Stack Overflow Moderators Stop Work in Protest of Lax AI-Generated Content Guidelines
    Moderators of Stack Overflow, the go-to Q&A forum for programmers, have announced today they will be going on strike citing the company’s prohibition on moderating AI-generated content on the platform.
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  • Google and Facebook urged by EU to label AI-generated content

    Google and Facebook urged by EU to label AI-generated content
    Call comes amid moves to combat disinformation from Russia, while Twitter is warned to comply with new digital content lawsSocial media companies including Google and Facebook have been urged by the EU to “immediately” start labelling content and images generated by artificial intelligence as part of a package of moves to combat fake news and disinformation from Russia.At the same time, the EU has warned Twitter that it faces “swift” sanctions if it does not comply with n