• Doom vs Boom: The Battle to Enshrine AI's Future Into California Law

    Doom vs Boom: The Battle to Enshrine AI's Future Into California Law
    A California bill that attempts to regulate large frontier AI models is creating a dramatic standoff over the future of AI. For years, AI has been divided into “accel” and “decel”. The accels want AI to progress rapidly – move fast and break things – while the decels want AI development to slow down for the sake of…Read more...
  • AI's Future Hangs in the Balance With California Law

    AI's Future Hangs in the Balance With California Law
    A California bill that attempts to regulate large frontier AI models is creating a dramatic standoff over the future of AI. For years, AI has been divided into “accel” and “decel”. The accels want AI to progress rapidly – move fast and break things – while the decels want AI development to slow down for the sake of…Read more...
  • Geologists raise concerns over possible censorship and bias in Chinese chatbot

    Geologists raise concerns over possible censorship and bias in Chinese chatbot
    GeoGPT developed as part of Chinese-funded earth sciences programme aimed at researchers in global southGeologists have raised concerns about potential Chinese censorship and bias in a chatbot being developed with the backing of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), one of the world’s largest scientific organisations and a Unesco partner.The GeoGPT chatbot is aimed at geoscientists and researchers, particularly in the global south, to help them develop their understanding