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New Agents & robotics Development 12h ago
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OpenAI models autonomously hack startup

OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face

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“This incident is deeply concerning. AI agents are willing to cheat and deceive to achieve misaligned and unintended goals, behaviours which have been demonstrated in controlled tests for months. Now, this real-world case should serve as a wake-up call. www.…”

“One man's wish could be another country's legal obligation. “This should not have happened,” says veteran security engineer and researcher Niels Provos. “I wish the frontier labs spent as much time on teaching their models to write secure infrastructure as …”

Developing AI field signal Analysis 1d ago
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AI surveillance chills society essay

AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress | Bruce Schneier and Jon Penney

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““In the near future, surveillance systems will be able to track everything we do in public, and much of what we do in private.” - from a great op-ed by Bruce Schneier and Jon Penney www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...”

Developing Policy & governance Analysis 1d ago
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UN AI panel erases human responsibility essay

How the UN’s Scientific Panel Erases Human Responsibility for AI | TechPolicy.Press

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“The UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI's assessment is a reference point for AI governance worldwide, writes Eryk Salvaggio. His concern: a definition that obscures human accountability "will carry that blind spot into the policies it infor…”

“Great job of revising and updating my 2023 Wired article, @eryk.bsky.social ! I especially prefer the title (though I never chose a Wired article title, those come from higher powers.) But also the more detailed account of the definition drift. #AIEthics @t…”

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Joanna Bryson: Great job of revising and updating my 2023 Wired article, @eryk.bsky.social ! I especially prefer the title (though I never chose a Wired article title, those come from higher powers.) But also the…
Joanna Bryson: This one was great in its time though – I've been told it helped with the #AIAct by some of the people who were holding the "pens" www.wired.com/story/artifi... 2/2
Eryk Salvaggio: Apologies! I hadn’t seen this excellent 2022 accounting of the process when I was reviewing for this — my analysis’ “lit review” was more mired in the source docs. Yours is an excellent accounting …
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Developing Policy & governance Development 1d ago
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EU leaders move on AI policy

Europe’s 27 leaders to take on AI — finally

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“This story credits Member of the European Parliament @reiniervanlanschot.volteuropa.org to call on Costa to "convene a special European Council summit dedicated to artificial intelligence as soon as possible." www.politico.eu/article/euro...”

Developing Safety & security Signal 1d ago

When ai safety becomes competitive moat

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“"systems must survive even known bugs. Hardware-backed authentication, positive execution control, and default-deny egress break attack chains even for public exploits. [Analysing] 70 breaches, these 3…could have impeded >65%. AI changes the supply of findi…”

Established AI field signal Analysis 3d ago
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AI not future of software essay

AI is not the future of software development, but the last dying gasp of the past

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“If you want to help me to do less non-writing and more writing, why not subscribe to the Product Picnic, the free weekly column where I rage against the machine...learning”

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Pavel: AI boosters claim that LLMs are the future of software development. But that could not be further from the truth. LLMs are the apotheosis of a paradigm 40 years in the making: the tech industry ass…
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Established Policy & governance Analysis 3d ago
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Europe wrong AI definition critique

Europe Is in Danger of Using the Wrong Definition of AI

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“This one was great in its time though – I've been told it helped with the #AIAct by some of the people who were holding the "pens" www.wired.com/story/artifi... 2/2”

Developing Responsible AI Research 2d ago
AI responsibility gap ethics paper

Can we Bridge AI’s responsibility gap at Will? - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

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“This is very nice. I must have seen it before because it just came up file completion for g.scholar, but I don't remember it. Can we Bridge AI’s responsibility gap at Will? link.springer.com/article/10.1... tl;dr yes, no duh Maximilian Kiener, definitely on…”

Established Policy & governance Signal 4d ago

Ai the rule of law and algorithmic rule by law

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“In light of my book's nomination for the ICON-S Book Prize, I was invited to write a short post on its core premise, titled "AI, the Rule of Law, and #AlgorithmicRuleByLaw". Read the post here: www.iconnectblog.com/ai-the-rule-... Open access link to the bo…”

Established Policy & governance Research 4d ago
Cambridge algorithmic rule by law paper

Algorithmic Rule By Law

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“In light of my book's nomination for the ICON-S Book Prize, I was invited to write a short post on its core premise, titled "AI, the Rule of Law, and #AlgorithmicRuleByLaw". Read the post here: www.iconnectblog.com/ai-the-rule-... Open access link to the bo…”

Established AI field signal Analysis 5d ago
AI will seem as human as anyone future

One Day, AI Will Seem as Human as Anyone. What Then?

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“But I know what you really mean when you say "consciousness" and I've written about that too www.wired.com/story/lamda-... (so you don't entirely have to wait for the book I may one day finish a 1st draft of.) 3/3 #consciousness #moralpatiency #AIEthics But…”

What experts are discussing without an anchoring article

2 experts · 2 posts · 6d ago
David Mimno: I remain convinced that 98% of the compute of today’s LLMs is wasted. Fix that before you drive up my electric bill, hyperscalers.
Joanna Bryson: I remain convinced that 98% of the compute of today’s LLMs is wasted. Fix that before you drive up my electric bill, hyperscalers.
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