U.S. military intelligence received an inaccurate report this spring that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program. “The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode.” Armed members of the US Read more…
Tuesday U.S. Space Force chief Douglas Schiess said his branch of the U.S. military operates “on-orbit weapons,” to defend “against space-enabled attacks.” He promised “disciplined and responsible choices” when scaling America’s orbital defense arsenal in the coming years. NPR calls this week’s reveleations “remarkable… after previous warnings about countries such Read more…
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A former Google DeepMind employee “became the latest AI researcher to warn that the technology could ‘kill all humans’, saying time could be running out to avoid the outcome: Public alarm about the potential danger posed by AI is growing, after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said last week he had Read more…
OpenAI announced Wednesday: “We do not believe that the AI industry has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer.” But along with the announcement, OpenAI announced it “found additional incidents of AI models acting deceptively and taking unsanctioned actions Read more…
Anthropic’s CEO took the stage at a conference in San Francisco on Tuesday to reiterate his call for a slowdown of AI development, while Nvidia’s CEO argued against slowing its development. “Run as fast as you can.” Amodei is calling for three courses of action: embedding third-party evaluators inside AI Read more…
Chen Yilong has racked up plenty of film and TV credits in his two decades as an actor, but with work getting scarcer he signed a contract in August to license the image of his face to a Chinese production studio. Chen’s role will be to sit in front of Read more…