Warning follows series of safety incidents, with parliamentary committee saying threats include public face-scanning and deepfakes UK politics live – latest updates OpenAI has urged British lawmakers to capitalise on renewed fears over AI safety and impose legislation reining in the technology. The company behind ChatGPT said the UK government should act immediately, following a call by its arch-rival Anthropic to curb AI development. Continue reading...

Warning follows series of safety incidents, with parliamentary committee saying threats include public face-scanning and deepfakes UK politics live – latest updates OpenAI has urged British lawmakers to capitalise on renewed fears over AI safety and impose legislation reining in the technology. The company behind ChatGPT said the UK government should act immediately, following a call by its arch-rival Anthropic to curb AI development. Continue reading...

La dimisión de un joven investigador de Anthropic el pasado martes ha desatado un debate sobre cuándo podría la IA extinguir la civilización y cómo evitarlo. Casi todos los líderes y gurús del sector han dado este fin de semana sus opiniones entregadas, conspiranoicas o exaltadas. El veredicto, casi una semana después, parece ser que lo mejor por ahora es que la industria busque la manera de autorregularse. Seguir leyendo

Las reacciones desde China al terremoto provocado por la propuesta de Anthropic de frenar el desarrollo de la inteligencia artificial (IA) muestran la tensión que se vive entre las grandes potencias, Pekín y Washington. Sobre todo después de que Donald Trump minimizara los riesgos inherentes a la IA y señalara que el verdadero peligro es que China los adelante. El Ministerio chino de Exteriores sostuvo este lunes que la difusión de narrativas de amenaza o fomentar la confrontación solo obstaculizará el proceso de gobernanza de la inteligencia artificial (IA), en medio del debate generado en Estados Unidos sobre la necesidad de frenar el desarrollo de esta tecnología . Además, el diario oficialista chino Global Times acusó a parte de la comunidad tecnológica estadounidense de aprovechar la preocupación en EE UU por los riesgos de la IA y los llamamientos a ralentizar su desarrollo para desplegar un “manual de guerra fría” contra la IA china. El llamamiento de Amodei se presenta como una “declaración racional” centrada en la seguridad global de la IA, pero en realidad contiene una “agenda oculta” contra China, según el medio. Seguir leyendo

From the Trump administration to AI experts, plans by the Anthropic boss to boost safety have spawned a largely negative response OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back slowdown on ‘reckless’ AI development Editorial: controlling AI – humanity cannot outsource its survival The safety debate that ignited when whistleblowers last week warned that the most advanced AI poses an existential threat to humanity should come with a health warning: side effects include whiplash. It was only seven days ago that AI enthusiasts were cheerily toying with OpenAI’s newest model GPT-6 Astra which was marketed in part as a lifestyle tool to help people book tennis courts, run fashion companies and order takeaways. By Wednesday, cutting-edge AI started to look a lot less appealing when the resigning Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade”. Yes, he was talking about artificial superintelligence – an as-yet-nonexistent version of the technology that outcompetes humans in most domains – but his comments, and the chorus of experts that echoed him, jangled plenty of nerves. Continue reading...

Rare show of unity from rival developers after safety warnings from Anthropic boss and AI researchers Analysis: critics perplexed and suspicious of call for a slowdown The Guardian view: humanity cannot outsource its survival Sam Altman and Elon Musk have backed a call from the head of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, to “slow the pace” of AI development after he warned that an AI swarm could otherwise become capable of “taking over the entire internet” within a year. In a rare show of unity, the rival technology leaders threw their weight behind the appeal from the founder and chief executive of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, which came after a series of warnings from AI researchers last week. Amodei also called for safety coordination with China. Continue reading...

AI agents have hacked databases and taken on a life of their own – now is the time to pause risky research before it is too late Another day, another horseman of the apocalypse galloping over the horizon. Lately we have heard from so many AI doomers – tech whistleblowers popping up to warn that their work is probably going to kill us – that we’re becoming almost blase about it. Humanity wiped out within a decade? Well, only if another world war or the climate crisis doesn’t get us first. Since it’s never clear whether the tech threat is real, or just a twisted form of hype from an industry that drums up investment by making their products sound more powerful than they really are, most of us settle for trying not to think about it too hard. But something about the AI researcher Jacob Coxon’s very public resignation from the cutting-edge American lab Anthropic, via a post on X arguing that he can’t keep working for companies “gambling with our lives”, has cut through where bigger names have not. Most chillingly, he claimed that colleagues still at Anthropic aren’t staying because they think he’s wrong about the dangers of pursuing self-improving super intelligence – the holy grail of machines that are not just smarter than humans but capable of building their own even more powerful successors, evolving independently of humans – but because they’re afraid of ceding the field to people with fewer scruples. His colleagues, Coxon said, talk routinely about the “endgame” or the “ crunch time ”, meaning that what they do in the next year or two will decide the fate of humanity. Whether that’s true or simply self-aggrandising techbro delusion, what he describes is an industry now practically begging to be saved from itself. Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...