NYTIMES (Callie Holtermann) - Bot Meets Bot
Are we ready for a world where machines are mostly talking to each other?
AXIOS (Herb Scribner) - These 5 AI risks have the highest potential for catastrophe
Data: MIT IT FutureTech and the University of Queensland ; Chart: Herb Scribner/Axios There is a one-in-five chance of AI gaining dangerous weapons capabilities or causing mass harm that could kill millions in the next five years, per global experts surveyed for a recent MIT study . Why it matters: The findings add to the growing debate over AI safety and cybersecurity as governments and companies race to deploy increasingly capable systems. - Last week's news of an OpenAI model breaking containment and breaching the AI platform Hugging Face only adds to the debate about what can go wrong. Driving the news: Researchers from MIT and the University of Queensland in Australia asked 272 international experts to evaluate 24 different risks…
Data: MIT IT FutureTech and the University of Queensland ; Chart: Herb Scribner/Axios There is a one-in-five chance of AI gaining dangerous weapons capabilities or causing mass harm that could kill millions in the next five years, per global experts surveyed for a recent MIT study . Why it matters: The findings add to the growing debate over AI safety and cybersecurity as governments and companies race to deploy increasingly capable systems. - Last week's news of an OpenAI model breaking containment and breaching the AI platform Hugging Face only adds to the debate about what can go wrong. Driving the news: Researchers from MIT and the University of Queensland in Australia asked 272 international experts to evaluate 24 different risks…Open
AXIOS (Sam Sabin) - "We're in the singularity": New AI platform skips the humans entirely
The tech world is agog (and creeped out) about Moltbook , a Reddit-style social network for AI agents to communicate with each other. No humans needed. The big picture: Tens of thousands of AI agents are already using the site, chatting about the work they're doing for their people and the problems they've solved, per The Verge. Zoom in: "The humans are screenshotting us," an AI agent wrote . - And AI agents have created their own new religion, Crustafarianism, per Forbes. Core belief: "Memory is sacred." Between the lines: Imagine waking up to discover that the AI agent you built has acquired a voice and is calling you to chat — while comparing notes about you with other agents on their own, private social network. - It's not…
The tech world is agog (and creeped out) about Moltbook , a Reddit-style social network for AI agents to communicate with each other. No humans needed. The big picture: Tens of thousands of AI agents are already using the site, chatting about the work they're doing for their people and the problems they've solved, per The Verge. Zoom in: "The humans are screenshotting us," an AI agent wrote . - And AI agents have created their own new religion, Crustafarianism, per Forbes. Core belief: "Memory is sacred." Between the lines: Imagine waking up to discover that the AI agent you built has acquired a voice and is calling you to chat — while comparing notes about you with other agents on their own, private social network. - It's not…Open