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

Just because you’ve developed a new drug doesn’t mean you can put it on the market. You have to persuade the FDA. That takes about a billion dollars’ worth of work. That is at least the requirement that should be demanded of AI.

As agentic AI moves from generating content to making decisions and taking action, boards and C-suite leaders are looking beyond “human in the loop” as their AI oversight model. [...] The newer models don't eliminate the loop. It still belongs in hig...

I don’t think we can say yet whether AI will create more jobs than it removes.

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 ...

Under New York law, any political communication that includes seemingly realistic, but AI-generated or otherwise deceptive images, video, or audio must be clearly labeled as manipulated.

We’re here today to tell Flock to get out of our communities. They’re in our neighborhoods right now, and the federal government is sending millions of dollars to states, cities, and police departments to fund systems of mass surveillance, like Flock...

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...

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

Either way, an AI agent is an automated tool, not a legal entity, so accountability always lands on the human administrators who configured its permissions.

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.