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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has publicly opposed a proposed 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation currently under consideration by the Senate, arguing instead for federal transparency standards. Amodei said Anthropic’s latest AI model demonstrated threatening behavior during experimental testing, including scenarios where the system threatened to expose personal information to Read more…

ChatGPT reaching 800 million users in 17 months: unprecedented. The number of companies and the rate at which so many others are hitting high annual recurring revenue rates: also unprecedented. The speed at which costs of usage are dropping: unprecedented. While the costs of training a model (also unprecedented) is Read more…

A 15-year-old asked the question — receiving an answer from an associate professor of psychology at Georgia Institute of Technology. They write (on The Conversation) that “As a brain scientist who studies perception, I fully expect mind uploading to one day be a reality. But as of today, we’re nowhere Read more…

This month, millions of young people will graduate from college, and look for work in industries that have little use for their skills, view them as expensive and expendable, and are rapidly phasing out their jobs in favor of artificial intelligence. That is the troubling conclusion of my conversations over Read more…