• AI may cause job losses and rise in carbon emissions, report finds

    AI may cause job losses and rise in carbon emissions, report finds
    But economists say it could be offset by the creation of new roles and non-automated sectorsBreakthroughs in artificial intelligence could lead to short-term increases in unemployment, a rise in carbon emissions and leave regulators trailing in the wake of technological advances, according to an international panel of experts.The inaugural report on the safety of advanced AI, inspired by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, raised a number of concerns about a technology which has shot
  • OpenAI Reportedly Dissolves Its Existential AI Risk Team

    OpenAI Reportedly Dissolves Its Existential AI Risk Team
    OpenAI’s Superalignment team, charged with controlling the existential danger of a superhuman AI system, has reportedly been disbanded, according to Wired on Friday. The news comes just days after the team’s founders, Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, simultaneously quit the company.Read more...
  • ‘We’re the peace activists’: my surreal, soul-sucking day at Palantir’s first AI warfare conference

    ‘We’re the peace activists’: my surreal, soul-sucking day at Palantir’s first AI warfare conference
    America’s military industrial complex took center stage at AI Expo for National Competitiveness, where a fire-breathing panel set the toneOn 7 and 8 May in Washington DC, the city’s biggest convention hall welcomed America’s military industrial complex, its top technology companies, and its most outspoken justifiers of war crimes. Of course, that’s not how they would describe it.It was the inaugural “AI Expo for National Competitiveness”, hosted by the Special
  • ‘I’m the new Oppenheimer!’: my soul-destroying day at Palantir’s first-ever AI warfare conference

    ‘I’m the new Oppenheimer!’: my soul-destroying day at Palantir’s first-ever AI warfare conference
    America’s military industrial complex took center stage at AI Expo for National Competitiveness, where a fire-breathing panel set the toneOn 7 and 8 May in Washington DC, the city’s biggest convention hall welcomed America’s military industrial complex, its top technology companies, and its most outspoken justifiers of war crimes. Of course, that’s not how they would describe it.It was the inaugural “AI Expo for National Competitiveness”, hosted by the Special
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