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

We have slowed down reinforcement learning and training runs because we do believe that safety should be of utmost priority. Of course, we want to hit AGI as soon as possible and we want to get there first. But we also want to make sure that AGI bene...

The ICRC has called for legally binding rules that would: Prohibit those autonomous weapons that pose the greatest threat, namely: “Unpredictable” autonomous weapons, whose effects cannot be sufficiently understood, predicted and explained; and auton...

States have a responsibility – to their own populations, and to those in other states who will face the consequences of the proliferation and use of AI-enabled weapons and by conflict escalation – to set clear limits. A company cannot determine what ...

I expect the next decade of AI to produce more work than it removes, with companies and people who adapt early benefiting most.

One of the best tools we have to ensure that is that, like, if you have a company that hurts people, you’re liable for that.

Embedded evaluators are independent external experts placed within frontier AI companies to provide ongoing assessments and validation of a company’s safety, security, and operational systems, practices, and claims. [...] As frontier AI companies beg...

Australia should require AI companies to submit to independent safety checks.

Supporting mass surveillance or utilizing facial recognition and biometric technologies for targeted tracking across platforms without consent.

That same kind of mechanistic understanding eludes us in today’s Super Intelligence systems, even as the frontier models powering these systems are now more capable than traditional software systems. We can’t attribute model behaviors and outputs to ...

I think we’ve got the beginnings of a pretty good story, because we can already build machines that can represent environments. [...] If that’s what you mean by consciousness—having beliefs, having desires, being able to report what those beliefs and...

I believe we were fired for prioritising safety over the near-term interests of OpenAI as a corporation.

At the information-processing level one can make the argument that LLMs do something very similar to what humans do: They extract patterns from language, compare them to other patterns of that language, and assign meaning.

Internal use: The same systemic-risk assessment applies to internal use of frontier models, including research, operational systems, and internal products. Internal deployment is assessed against the same capability thresholds and safeguards as pre-r...

AI is expected to automate a large number of jobs. But when large numbers of people lose their means of earning a living, the situation cannot stay unbalanced forever. [...] History has repeatedly shown that societies do not stay in extreme imbalance...

If the FCC allows a dark money group to flood Americans’ phones with AI-generated robocalls they never agreed to receive, it would bring chaos so close to Election Day.