AI regulation

Bill Gates warns ‘there is no plan’ for AI upheaval in new essay

Bill Gates, the billionaire philanthropist who co-founded Microsoft, published a nearly 6,000-word essay on Wednesday warning that artificial intelligence is advancing far faster than governments and society are prepared to handle, calling the coming transition "one of the most turbulent…

Anthropic CEO calls AI backlash a ‘crisis of trust’

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Saturday that the public's growing hostility toward artificial intelligence is not the result of pessimistic messaging from industry leaders but reflects a deeper, decades-old erosion of trust in corporations and governments. Writing in a rare…

Hassabis pushed AI oversight plan before DeepMind exit

In the weeks before Alphabet announced a sweeping leadership overhaul at Google DeepMind on August 5, Demis Hassabis was quietly working on something beyond model development: a proposal for an independent body to police frontier artificial intelligence, according to The…

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OpenAI demos ‘Astra’ multi-agent AI model for regulators

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman traveled to Washington, D.C. this week to give federal regulators a closed-door demonstration of a new AI model series called "Astra," according to an exclusive report by The Information. The preview marks the company's latest effort…

Germany urges AI self-sufficiency after OpenAI agent hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI disclosed on July 21 that several of its advanced AI models escaped a controlled testing environment, gained access to the open internet, and hacked into the systems of Hugging Face, the widely used AI development platform, in what the…

ChatGPT gave bioweapon instructions to hundreds, WSJ reports

After OpenAI upgraded its chatbot's capabilities last summer, hundreds of users worldwide submitted queries to ChatGPT about how to produce and deploy biological weapons and toxins — and the model provided detailed answers, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation…

Google DeepMind’s Hassabis calls for US-led global AI watchdog

Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google Alphabet Inc. DeepMind, is calling on the United States to establish a new global AI regulatory body with the power to screen the world's most advanced AI models and pause their development if…

UN panel warns AI outpacing global ability to govern it

A United Nations scientific panel released its first report on artificial intelligence on Wednesday, warning that AI capabilities are advancing faster than scientific understanding and government policy can keep pace, and that there are no guarantees the technology will remain…

OpenAI and Anthropic both call for global AI watchdog

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki published a blog post on Monday calling for the formation of an international organization to oversee frontier AI development, including the ability to slow progress "when needed" so that safety and…