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AI 'less regulated than sandwiches' and no tech firm has AI superintelligence safety plan, study

Eight leading AI companies, including OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, and DeepSeek, do not have credible plans to prevent catastrophic AI risks, a new study shows.

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Prince Harry, Meghan join call for ban on development of AI 'superintelligence'

Prince Harry and Meghan have joined a diverse group, including Steve Bannon and Glenn Beck, to call for a ban on AI "superintelligence" that threatens humanity

The Independent UK

AI Apocalypse? Why language surrounding tech is sounding increasingly religious

Geoffrey Hinton is sounding the alarm about the risks of artificial intelligence

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AI firms ‘unprepared’ for dangers of building human-level systems, report warns

Future of Life Institute says companies pursuing artificial general intelligence lack credible plans to ensure safety

The Guardian - UK

US Senate votes to stop proposal on statewide AI regulation in 99-1 vote

US Senators voted against a 10-year ban on regulating AI at the state level.

Euronews

AI experts are calling for safety calculations akin to Compton's A-bomb tests before releasing Artificial Super Intelligences upon humanity

There's a 90% chance that a highly advanced AI could pose its own threat to humanity.

PC Gamer

AI firms warned to calculate threat of super intelligence or risk it escaping human control

AI safety campaigner calls for existential threat assessment akin to Oppenheimer’s calculations before first nuclear test

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There is a global consensus for AI safety despite Paris Summit backlash, new report finds

A new paper released on Thursday, presenting the findings of a global conference held in Singapore in April, has identified how AI can be made safer.

Euronews

I met the ‘godfathers of AI’ in Paris – here’s what they told me to really worry about

Experts are split between concerns about future threats and present dangers. Both camps issued dire warnings, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst

The Guardian - UK

The Paris AI Action Summit was a fork in the road—but are we on a path to prosperity or disaster?

AI Safety, the original purpose of these summits, was sidelined in favor of talk of AI opportunity

Fortune

‘Engine of inequality’: delegates discuss AI’s global impact at Paris summit

Emmanuel Macron’s tech envoy warns attenders current trajectory of artificial intelligence is unsustainable

The Guardian - UK

AI safety testing gets poor grades in a new report

A third-party lab caught OpenAI's o1 model trying to deceive, while OpenAI's safety testing has been called into question.

Fortune

‘A fork in the road’: laundry-sorting robot spurs AI hopes and fears at Europe’s biggest tech event

Humanoid called Digit fuelled boosterism at Web Summit, but also raised concerns about jobs, safety and climate

The Guardian - UK

Musk’s influence on Trump could lead to tougher AI standards, says scientist

Tycoon might help president-elect realise that race for artificial general intelligence is a ‘suicide race’, says Max Tegmark

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Tech Sector Gathers In Lisbon In Shadow Of Trump Victory

Leading lights of the tech industry are meeting in Lisbon on Tuesday for the Web Summit, the sector's first big event since the US election, with Donald Trump's victory expected to be a key theme of their discussions.

Salon

Is math objectively real?

Scientists still debate whether our mathematical models of the universe objectively exist

The Guardian - UK

Big tech has distracted world from existential risk of AI, says top scientist

Max Tegmark argues that the downplaying is not accidental and threatens to delay, until it’s too late, the strict regulations needed

The Hindu

Why the multiverse is possible according to physics, but not definitely

From the possibility of multiple universes to the concept of cosmic inflation, explore the boundaries of physics and reality.

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TechScape: Why Sunak’s ‘vanity jamboree’ on AI safety was actually … a success

Against the odds, world leaders agreed on a landmark declaration to bring stronger oversight to AI. Plus, Sam Bankman-Fried’s very bad week

The Guardian - US

Humanity at risk from AI ‘race to the bottom’, says tech expert

MIT professor behind influential letter says unchecked development is allowing a few AI firms to jeopardise society’s future

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Zelenskiy faces difficult time in Washington amid Congress spending battle

Republicans propose stopgap bill that excludes funding for Ukraine as both parties signal they have questions for Kyiv’s delegation. Plus, why are 500,000 people watching paint dry?

The Guardian - UK

AI-focused tech firms locked in ‘race to the bottom’, warns MIT professor

Physicist Max Tegmark says competition too intense for tech executives to pause development to consider AI risks

Evening Standard

Could the Everything Everywhere All At Once multiverse be real? Here’s the science behind the film

Perhaps there’s a version of you out there who also has a third eye

Daily Mirror

Probability of nuclear war is now the same as 'Russian roulette', says scientist

Leading scientist Professor Max Tegmark has worked out that the probability of an apocalyptic nuclear war over the Ukraine crisis now stands at just one in six or the same as Russian roulette

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