What's new in AI governance, safety, jobs and society

AI is already on the verge of going rogue, but with legal person status, it could become an actual existential threat to humanity.

Well, then they should slow down.

Across the country, Big Tech companies like Flock Safety have built a mass surveillance system to harvest Americans’ private and personal data without their consent. AI-powered cameras are keeping track of our every move and weaponizing this data aga...

State-of-the-art AI agents can have error rates exceeding 25 per cent on complex tasks, a situation that is unacceptable in high-stakes decision-making. Organisations seeking accuracy and repeatability must embed domain expertise into AI-agent workfl...

Independent audits could help, but there needed to be clarity over who selects auditors, what standards they use, how much access they receive and whether findings are made public. [...] Some of these voluntary commitments would eventually need statu...

Require independent embedded evaluations to close the internal deployment gap. Qualified independent third parties should test models throughout development and internal use, with employee-equivalent access.

I believe it’s an engineering problem ... and we all need to hope that’s an engineering problem. If it’s not an engineering problem, it’s not solvable.

We must collectively formulate new rules and be prepared to create new institutions, if necessary, for new technologies. [...] We must explore all options, including the idea of a UN Framework Convention on AI Safeguards.

The first is to define reportable events together. The new channel will be worth exactly as much as its list of triggers: an agent loose outside its test environment, a model that gives real help to someone designing a pathogen, a large AI-driven int...

Yes—intelligence can probably be artificial. But artificial intelligence does not therefore have to possess an artificial version of the human mind. [...] What has not been established is that current AI possesses consciousness, subjective experience...

To declare today’s AI conscious simply because it speaks fluently would go far beyond the available evidence. But to declare that a machine could never become conscious would also claim more certainty than science presently allows.

The best way to guarantee safety [...] is for those creating the technology to be liable for what they build and generate.

We should also slow down their development until we find a way to make this technology safe and channel its power towards the goals we truly have as a society.

An AI agent is not a legal person, and in our law liability for this type of incident always sits with a person or a company. The liability has to be traced back to the intent of a person or a company that created or directed the agent.

A federal regulatory framework for frontier AI [...] must include: [...] Explicit preservation of state authority to enact and enforce more protective state laws applicable to AI and providing state officials with full authority to enforce any new fe...