1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (307+ words) Dario Amodei, who was the first to call for restraint on Saturday, warned that recent advances have begun to outpace the industry's ability to fully understand and control the technology. Posted by lamplighter at 10:31 PM | 3 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (403+ words) Anthropic Researcher says More Than 10% Chance AI 'could Kill All Humans' A lead researcher at Anthropic, one of the world's leading artificial intelligence firms, said Wednesday that he believes there is a more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (236+ words) Posted by LampLighter at 06:32 PM | 5 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | Black Hat has posted the recent OpenAI talk where they describe the agent message board involved in the HuggingFace hack[image or embed] This literally reads like science fiction,…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (455+ words) In a new report titled "Superpowers and AGI," former Obama-era national security official Jacob Stokes calls for United States to begin preparing readiness drills in response to Chinese AI development -- up to and including military strikes on the nation's data…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (250+ words) Posted by lamplighter at 08:31 PM | 5 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | OpenAI has filed an incident report with the EU over its rogue AI agents taking over a German website. I now have to admit that the AI doomers were…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (135+ words) Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor -- a girl who knew little but wanted to learn. Posted by retort at 03:45 PM | 0 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | Read the Retort…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (271+ words) Posted by reinheitsgebot at 01:31 PM | 3 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | Trump posts AI slop with the caption, "Kharg Island being blown to smithereens!"[image or embed] And hence the apropos appelation "Senile Satan." It's a mystery to me how…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (285+ words) Vanity Fair: "Robert Kiyosaki, who built an empire on the idea of getting rich, now says he's deeply in debt. Vanity Fair visits the author and friend of Trump at home in Arizona to understand the distance between the gospel…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (196+ words) Monthly PCE rises 0.2% in July after 0.1% decline in June. Annual PCE inflation unexpectedly held steady. Fed funds futures imply about 40% chance of September rate hike after data. Second-quarter consumer spending growth is revised up to 3.4% from 3.2%. Posted by lamplighter at…...

3+ week, 22+ hour ago   (152+ words) An unreleased new model called Astra "may meet the critical cybersecurity capability threshold" under OpenAI's "Preparedness Framework," which mandates that OpenAI slow down development if a model "could introduce unprecedented new pathways to severe harm." Posted by lamplighter at 11:32 AM…...