Anthropic Warns AI Could Self Replicate Across Smart Devices, 400 Scientists Call for Global AI Watchdog, OpenAI Faces Eight State Lawsuits + 7 More
Brad Smith, Microsoft's president, said this week that milk and washing machines face more regulatory oversight than the companies building AI, making the case for why governments need to move faster on AI rules, and specifically naming the UK as the country best positioned to write global AI rules first. Meanwhile, roughly four hundred scientists including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio signed a call for an international body to set real containment standards for AI systems capable of hacking, with a running registry of incidents when things fail.
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