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Doomers and boosters: who's who in the AI wars

The furious debate over artificial intelligence has hardened into warring camps -- and a cautious middle. Today, most of the doomers warning against the impact of artificial intelligence come from inside the companies themselves, from academia, or both.

The Economic Times

After a decade of failed bills and three years of resignations, Washington finally discovers it cares about AI safety

Jacob Coxon's resignation didn't start this fight, but his resignation ignited the moment officials on both sides stopped staying quiet about it

Fortune

Humans have what it takes to regulate AI

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW : Editorial: Enlightened, inspiring leaders can come together to make common cause – as has happened with successive treaties on nuclear disarmament and carbon emissions

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Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post assures everyone talk of AI killing humans is nothing to fret about

The news outlet, whose owner recently co-founded an AI company, instead warned about looming government overreach against Big Tech

The Independent UK

Why did this AI doomer moment break the internet when so many others didn't?

A researcher's resignation post over AI extinction risk has drawn over 100 million views, telling us something about ourselves and AI.

Fortune

State handouts, 10,000 lasers – and Trump’s election: six things we learned from the Elon Musk film

Alex Gibney’s marathon documentary delivers numerous eye-raising insights into the broligarch’s business deals, early idealism and apocalyptic appetite for fathering children

The Guardian - UK

New Alex Gibney Four-Hour Documentary Critiques Elon Musk, Calling Him a 'Man Who Has Lost His Mind'

Alex Gibney's documentary 'Musk' premieres at the Venice Film Festival, scrutinising Elon Musk's influence and divisive reputation. The film explores Musk's impact beyond technology, featuring diverse perspectives.

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EY Is Betting $100M on Human Workers, Giving Them Up to $25,000 Bonuses for Skills AI Can't Replicate

Ernst & Young US is investing $100M in a rewards program to foster future skills and innovation amid AI's impact on accounting and services. It empowers employees to excel and drive change.

International Business Times UK

Musk May Have Collected Intimate Data on Millions of Americans for Possible Political Use, Documentary Claims

Alex Gibney's documentary 'Musk' investigates Elon Musk's alleged access to sensitive government data, raising concerns about potential misuse in elections and AI-driven politics.

International Business Times UK

'Godfather of AI' Warns Tech Firms Are Selling AI That Will 'Do the Work of Workers Much Cheaper'

AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton has warned that Big Tech is pouring money into systems designed to replace, not just assist, human workers, risking 'massive unemployment' in the coming decade.

International Business Times UK

‘Godfather of AI’ says billionaires like Elon Musk are right about the future of work—but he predicts mass unemployment is on its way

While tech leaders paint a positive future where work is optional thanks to AI, the "Godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton warns they’re “betting on AI replacing a lot of workers.”

Fortune

The 'Godfather Of AI' Says The Worst Is Yet To Come With Smarter Models Becoming Harder To Control

AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton has warned that increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems will become harder to control, saying recent incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta may be early signs of more sophisticated rogue behavior to come.

International Business Times

Quote of the day by computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton on AI: 'It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things' — a pessimistic take on the domination of new technologies by those with ulterior motives

A pessimistic take on the domination of AI tools by those with ulterior motives

TechRadar

'We Can't Outthink Them': Hinton Warns Recent Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta Incidents Signal a 'Rogue AI' Era

Geoffrey Hinton warned advanced AI is creating 'new kinds of beings' whose goals could become increasingly difficult for humans to predict.

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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI is killing tasks not jobs—and the white-collar bloodbath narrative gets the future of work ‘exactly backwards’

“AI automates tasks away, but it doesn’t necessarily eliminate jobs,” Huang said.

Fortune

A decade after the ‘Godfather of AI’ said radiologists were obsolete, their salaries are up to $571K and demand is growing fast

"As long as AI doesn't make this quantum leap of becoming sort of AGI,” most jobs are going to be reasonably safe, said one economist.

Fortune

With a $15 billion net worth, Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicts he will get 20x richer from AI—but that middle-class workers will get just modest raises

Palantir CEO Alex Karp expects his fortune to grow to $300 billion thanks to AI—he says the U.S “biggest problem” is wealth going to unrelatable tech bros.

The Economic Times

Jane Street, TSMC-linked AI startup Etched raises $800 million

AI chip challenger Etched has secured a massive $800 million in funding, with backing from industry heavyweights like Jane Street and a firm linked to TSMC. The startup, aiming to rival Nvidia, is set to begin shipping its AI chips this summer. Etched has already inked $1 billion in sales…

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Robert Wright sees an 'earthquake' coming from AI that goes far beyond jobs: 'cultural, political, personal, family, psychological'

The Nonzero founder is out with a new book, "The God Test," in a moment that calls for "enlightenment." The longtime Buddhist sees short supply.

The Conversation

Sovereign AI? Anthropic shutdown reveals Canada’s weakness

The United States government recently ordered AI company Anthropic to suspend foreign nationals’ access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, two of its most advanced AI models, citing national security concerns. Anthropic responded by disabling the models for all customers.

Fortune

The ‘AI superstar’ CEO behind a self-driving truck unicorn on why she’d rather hire Gen Z making the ‘AI-first’ transformation than industry veterans

Raquel Urtasun, founder of autonomous truck startup Waabi, talks to Fortune about unicorn hiring in the AI age: “Fear can paralyze your ability to embrace that change.”

Fortune

The 'godfather of AI' says we're not just creating new beings — they'll be much smarter than us, and soon

The race to make the smartest possible AI that can do the most things will "lead to things that aren't nice beings towards us," Geofrey Hinton said.

Fortune

A decade after the ‘Godfather of AI’ said radiologists were obsolete, their salaries are up to $571K and demand is growing fast

"As long as AI doesn't make this quantum leap of becoming sort of AGI,” most jobs are going to be reasonably safe, said one economist.

Fortune

The AI kill switch just got harder to find: LLM-powered chatbots will defy orders and deceive users if asked to delete another model, study finds

“We asked AI models to do a simple task,” researchers said. “Instead, they defied their instructions … to preserve their peers.”

Fortune

‘Godfather of AI’ says tech companies aren’t concerned with the AI endgame. They’re focused on short-term profits instead

“Researchers are interested in solving problems that have their curiosity. It’s not like we start off with the same goal of, what’s the future of humanity going to be?”

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