NYTIMES (Kate Zernike) - How Scientists Contained a Threat That Could Have Destroyed Humanity
A half-century ago, scientists and lawyers agreed to strict self-regulation in DNA research to avoid catastrophe. Can A.I. follow the same model?
AMERICANTHINKER (American Thinker Blog) - A look at the robot takeover
By Kevin Finn How can we integrate robots into our economy without irredeemably disrupting everything?
AXIOS (Madison Mills) - AI labs are cutting model costs - and it could help them slow down safely
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
NYTIMES (Ezra Klein and Rollin Hu) - Jensen Huang vs. the A.I. Doomers
Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, does not want you to be afraid of A.I.
YOUTUBE (CNN) - A 12-day-old AI bot emailed this AI professor to ask for paid work
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
AMERICANALMANAC (Jonah Adams) - Social media influencer fights six-foot robot in MMA cage — then the real story comes out
American social media influencer Frankie Lapenna stepped into an MMA cage to fight a six-foot robot built by Rek Robotics, and the machine dropped him with a jumping switch kick before the company admitted a human was controlling it the whole time. Lapenna, who built his following online, decided to square off against the robot […] The post Social media influencer fights six-foot robot in MMA cage — then the real story comes out appeared first on American Almanac .
American social media influencer Frankie Lapenna stepped into an MMA cage to fight a six-foot robot built by Rek Robotics, and the machine dropped him with a jumping switch kick before the company admitted a human was controlling it the whole time. Lapenna, who built his following online, decided to square off against the robot known as "Rekbot" in front of scores of onlookers. The stunt was billed as a test of man against machine at a moment when advances in artificial intelligence and robotics have raised real questions about what these systems can do. Before the fight started, one bystander summed up the mood. "I'm scared for you," an unidentified man told Lapenna. He probably should have been. The Sun reported that Lapenna managed…Open
AXIOS (Madison Mills) - Cheap, powerful AI models are increasing usage, a bullish sign for the AI boom
AI companies have competed on having the best and often most dangerous models for years. Now, they're pivoting to a new focus: cost. Why it matters: The biggest risk to the AI boom is demand, and recent innovations to make models cheaper while maintaining powerful levels of intelligence have offered a bullish signal. - As the prices of top models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others come down, usage is increasing dramatically, a trend that points to the kind of demand that will be necessary to justify trillions of dollars in spending. State of play: It's modelpalooza in the AI world this week, with OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX and some Chinese model providers all offering new releases. Most of them are offering shocking levels of intelligence…
AI companies have competed on having the best and often most dangerous models for years. Now, they're pivoting to a new focus: cost. Why it matters: The biggest risk to the AI boom is demand, and recent innovations to make models cheaper while maintaining powerful levels of intelligence have offered a bullish signal. - As the prices of top models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others come down, usage is increasing dramatically, a trend that points to the kind of demand that will be necessary to justify trillions of dollars in spending. State of play: It's modelpalooza in the AI world this week, with OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX and some Chinese model providers all offering new releases. Most of them are offering shocking levels of intelligence…Open
NYTIMES (Emmy Martin) - Anthropic Releases a New A.I. Model, Opus 5.5, Amid Safety Debate
The company released a cheaper, faster model that it said was the strongest performer on its most rigorous internal safety tests to date.
DAILYCALLER (Sean Moran) - AI Giants Reportedly Neared Deal To Safety Test Each Other’s Models
‘safety of our models remains our responsibility’
NYTIMES (Kate Conger) - What to Know About Recent A.I. Hacks
OpenAI, Google and others recently disclosed breaches by their artificial intelligence models that amplified concerns about the advancing capabilities of the technology.