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

We should take decisive action now so that we can slow down, as the CEOs have recently acknowledged, slow down the pace of development in order to protect the American people and ensure that AI is proceeding safely.

Bringing in independent evaluators is a real step. But a voluntary commitment can be dropped the second it gets inconvenient. The FRONTIER Act makes safety and transparency the law, and puts independent auditors in place to hold frontier labs to it. ...

The only way to ultimately control AI on a worldwide scale in coming years will be for the two superpowers to create some kind of framework modeled after how we've safely governed nuclear weapons for decades.

AI isn’t going away. Barring unprecedented global government coordination, it isn’t even slowing down. The only real decision is whether to centralize power, or disperse it. Do you fear the technology? Or a small number of people controlling the te...

The governance direction is therefore already visible: developer evidence → independent review → public-law standing.

Sweeping bans of anything are hard to enact and enforce, but the risks of generative AI are too great to dismiss bold measures as unfeasible. [...] In the absence of a wholesale ban on all interactions between juveniles and relational AI, a default s...

And if we want these SSAs to obey law, we will have to grant them the benefits of the law as well as its burdens: property, standing, procedure. That would not make them human, but would help make them more governable.

This suggests pacing the advances: not training or deploying AIs without a strong safety case that convinces independent experts.

Many researchers believe they are building something that could kill everyone on the planet. It was literally my day job to think about how to stop that.

BREAKING: I just signed the strongest kid safety laws for AI chatbots and social media in America. California is banning addictive social media features for kids, cracking down on dangerous AI chatbots, and strengthening privacy protections for ALL k...

ARI has already worked with state lawmakers on a variety of fronts, including to advocate for greater community stewardship of data centers and to defeat federal preemption efforts.

The labour data are in from America and a trend is becoming clearer: on balance AI is starting to create more jobs than it hoovers up.

One message came through clearly: people are open to AI improving their care, but only if it is safe, overseen by humans, and if they know when it is being used. These recommendations are designed to make that trust possible, so that the UK can lead ...

The problem with the pause is you've got China. So, what you really ultimately want is some sort of international agreement—international pacing, you might call it—which will require international coordination and understanding where all the compute ...

Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.