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The escrow. My favorite clause. New Chinese datacenters get built in Canada. New American ones in Mongolia. If the deal collapses, each side destroys its own chips rather than let the rival seize them. The authors name it mutually assured compute des...

I don’t agree with everything in AI 2040 “Plan A” but it is very thoughtful. One element I love: push for increased transparency and diffusion.

Even conditional on the political will for Plan A existing initially, I worry that the MACD equilibrium will be too fragile.

The GUARD Act would help to protect minors from AI chatbots that target them for coercion and manipulation while ensuring that tech companies are held accountable when they hurt children and families.

Existing legal principles, such as under tort and contract law, can be applied by our courts to assess and determine liability in appropriate cases. That being said, we share the concerns raised by the Member, and will continue to study this issue, i...

AI should be understood as an instrument whose outputs remain the responsibility of human operators rather than developers.

There’s a stronger case for banning companion-style bots for minors than for banning all chatbots.

Some kids are just too young to understand the difference between AI and a real person. [...] Remember, this is not a person... this is just something you download in the app store. It's not just our kids — these chatbots and the companies behind the...

The rapid development of sophisticated chatbots has left many parents in the dark as powerful AI systems enter children’s lives. Congress has an opportunity to put parents back in control. With the right safeguards, AI systems can benefit a child’s e...

I introduced the Chip Security Act to help meet this challenge. The Chip Security Act ensures that AI chips are not smuggled to China by scaling up best security practices, encouraging innovative technologies, and directly supporting the Trump admini...

They would have to limit everything.

The discipline is to communicate the general case, never the instances, and never to accept self-attestation alone as proof that something was fixed.

You’ll see industry oppose outside auditors and the main reason is they would mandate something that can’t be done [today] in a robust and uniform manner.

The final hire or no-hire call always stays with your team. Hubert is a high-speed research assistant, not a decision-maker.

As with any technology, the need for regulation depends on how it is deployed, the nature of harm that may be caused, and whether existing measures are effective in addressing those harms. Where existing measures are assessed to be inadequate and a s...

The requirement of human review is one of the most burdensome compliance elements for employers, particularly in comparison to states that allow alternative processes rather than human review.

If your AI agent can approve a wire transfer or modify access controls without a human being in the loop, you’ve essentially created an unaudited decision-maker with admin privileges.

It is very clear that we have moved from a human-led defense strategy, to a human-in-the-loop defense strategy, to an AI-led defense strategy that’s overseen by humans. Our model for the future is an agentic fleet that does a lot of the routine cyber...

We do this pretraining on human data, and then we get something that… understands human values fairly innately now.

If it takes over that's what will happen. [...] We don't know how to do that. We don't even know if it's possible.

While we have shown that sufficiently strong AI cannot be fully controlled or predicted, we also demonstrate that agents can be influenced by other agents without central control, and that greater diversity and openness influence their behaviour.

I distinguish a robust, systematic and possibly existential hazard to human wellbeing produced by AI advancement and proliferation.

So when people predict a high degree of existential risk from AGI, I don’t actually think “arguing back” on their chosen terms is the correct response. Radical agnosticism is the correct response, where all specific scenarios are pretty unlikely. Non...

Those extreme risks are still science fiction. So these speeches are largely diversions, very deliberately crafted.

It is imperative that states initiate a global process toward a binding international instrument that bans and strictly regulates autonomous weapons systems (AWS).

The Government strongly believes that there is a need to maintain meaningful human control of all weapons systems, including any systems that may be developed. Our position is that, for such systems to comply with international humanitarian law, cont...

This article argues that this abhorrence-based case fails to justify, with current evidence, a blanket prohibition.

Individuals should have the right to opt-out, update, or request deletion of their data from generative AI tools. These rights should encompass AI training data and disclosure to other users of the tool.

Bectu has been clear that any model which places the burden on individual creators to ‘opt-out’ of the use of copyrighted work for AI training is unworkable, unfair and disproportionately harms freelancers.

I fully expect the idea that AI systems are conscious to become increasingly mainstream over the course of this decade, and to spark some heated debates.

The question of whether artificial entities could have consciousness is momentous and unresolved.

This tells us something crucial: complexity and consciousness are not the same thing. That challenges simplistic narratives about ‘conscious AI.’

I have not yet seen the evidence that you’re going to see widespread job destruction because of AI.

While most Finns will benefit from AI adoption, one-fifth of the workforce is at risk of job displacement.

Automation is rapidly dissolving jobs, threatening to turn years of sacrifice into obsolete skills.

Governments should fund sustained safety research to strengthen these safeguards over time and enable information-sharing of best practices between companies.

As one of the first signatories to the Agreement on the Establishment of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organisation, Cambodia stands ready to work shoulder to shoulder with China and all partners in advancing an AI future that is inno...

Middle powers like the UK and Canada will not win the race for ever larger AI models, but through collaboration they can win the deployment race.