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

The solution as I see it is simple. We stop companies from allowing AI to self-improve into an uncontrollable level of intelligence.

Existing guidelines and regulations, including risk management processes and oversight, also apply to agentic AI systems. This includes the principle of maintaining human accountability, implementing sufficient controls and guardrails, as well as eff...

The first is a federal governance framework targeting frontier AI developers above $500 million in annual revenue. These developers would be required to publish safety frameworks, report critical incidents, and submit to semi-annual third-party audit...

Companies offering such models will need a liability framework, perhaps a new one for AI training.

An opt-out system as proposed by AI companies places burdens and costs on rights holders, as it would require ongoing surveillance to see whether copyright material is being used. We cannot scour the internet and ensure we are opting out on all of th...

The primary goal of such regulation is to ensure that frontier models meet stringent safety standards before they are launched on the public market. But this would not address the conditions that triggered the recent hacks: namely, when developers an...

For a long time many of us thought of RSI as the way AGI turns into superintelligence. [...] I was advocating what I called a semi-hard takeoff: a period where the self-improvement was real but not that fast, followed by a point -- once the AGI fully...

Australia and the US’s Western allies face an incentive and opportunity structure that may promote, and enable, the less instead of the more destructive options. [...] A government that believes access to American frontier models will remain availabl...

We do need to have some safeguards in place to make sure there are no unintended consequences, but, no, I do not think AI is going to imperil human existence.

There’s a common fear among people who work in Silicon Valley: snag one of the fast-growing, high-paying jobs in artificial intelligence, or get trapped in the “permanent underclass”, a phrase describing the fate of those who won’t have upward mobili...

We need to pause all of the research on this, we need to pause all of the application of AI and just sit down and have a proper think about where this is going, where we want it to go, and how we want it to happen and how we want it to be regulated. ...

Do artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT eliminate jobs, create new ones, or both? There’s a lot of speculation regarding this question, but little solid data in the U.S. to answer it.

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...

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...

The most interesting risk in AI is not the OpenAI and Anthropic models. It's open-source models. They're way more dangerous because they can't be monitored.