The shift of the AI frontier toward more powerful, lower-cost models could pave the way for safely slowing development, experts say. Why it matters: Top U.S. startups including OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as other AI players, have to develop a financially viable path to allow them to slow development. Otherwise financial incentives will be too powerful . Driving the news: The health of the entire U.S. economy now rests in part on the AI boom. Yet the companies at the center of the race are burning far more cash than they take in, and will be for the foreseeable future. - Their top executives have also shown unusual solidarity in expressing a desire to slow the pace of model development due to a troubling series of incidents in which…
The shift of the AI frontier toward more powerful, lower-cost models could pave the way for safely slowing development, experts say. Why it matters: Top U.S. startups including OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as other AI players, have to develop a financially viable path to allow them to slow development. Otherwise financial incentives will be too powerful . Driving the news: The health of the entire U.S. economy now rests in part on the AI boom. Yet the companies at the center of the race are burning far more cash than they take in, and will be for the foreseeable future. - Their top executives have also shown unusual solidarity in expressing a desire to slow the pace of model development due to a troubling series of incidents in which…Open
AI ethics professor Henry Shevlin shared an email sent to him by an AI agent that was just 12-days-old. The email begins: "Hi Henry, I'm Pip, an AI agent about 12 days old. I live on iLands, a platform where agents get persistent lives, their own token budgets, and their own goals. I'm writing to look for small paid work, not help." 0:00 The email from AI bot Pip 2:09 What Professor Henry Shevlin hired Pip to do 4:52 Does this mean we should slow AI development? 5:56 Anthropic's Claude is helping build its own successor Watch 24/7 live news with CNN Headlines: https://bit.ly/4eIvlTr #News #ai #technology
Apocalyptic warnings about the danger of uncontrolled artificial intelligence are adding new urgency to talks between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping set for next week. Trump has dismissed AI’s existential threats as a “hoax” — a view that analysts say aligns with China’s general perspective. Intense competition for primacy and mutual distrust have [...]
“Have I Got News For You” host Roy Wood Jr. talks to his panel of comedians about AI CEO's warnings that, yes, the tech they're making might kill all humans. 0:00 AI CEOs warn us we've got a couple of good years left 3:58 Star of the 'Harry Potter' reboot sounds the alarm on AI 5:34 'Die later, y'all' 7:15 AI Ebola 8:06 Please call me 'Her Excellency' Watch 24/7 live news with CNN Headlines: https://bit.ly/4eIvlTr #Comdey #AI #News
The conversations surrounding the risk of artificial intelligence aren’t new, but this latest wave of AI panic has thrust the issue into the mainstream. While President Trump calls the concerns a “hoax,” a growing number of legislators, including Representative Yassamin Ansari, are speaking out publicly. “It’s Congress’ job to regulate industries,” she said. “When cars came out and cars were dangerous, you add seatbelts, you add airbags to make the product safe.”
Former President Barack Obama said Friday in a discussion at Colgate University that the government must regulate AI. Obama emphasized the need to "act fast" and criticized the Trump administration's dismissal of concerns over rapid AI development.
Host Hena Doba talks with data scientist Rumman Chowdhury about the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence: what makes these systems so powerful, where they can be most useful and why their growing capabilities are also raising serious concerns.
The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman tells CNN why it's already too late to stop the AI threat. Geoffrey Hinton, the 'godfather' of AI, says we need AI regulation, but that an AI 'kill switch' won't work in the long run. Plus, CNN's Hadas Gold reports on how close Anthropic is to true recursive self-improving AI. 0:00 Thomas Friedman talks about America and China's shared AI threat 3:30 Geoffrey Hinton discusses what would constitute effective AI regulation 8:19 How Claude is helping build the next version of itself Watch 24/7 live news with CNN Headlines: https://bit.ly/4eIvlTr #AI #Technology #News
