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| Dario Amodei: |
Dario Amodei proposes steps for pacing the frontier: embedded evaluators, coordination among democracies, and global coordination with authoritarian governments — I have worked on AI for the last twelve years because I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of human life.
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| Auzinea Bacon / CNN: |
Amodei warns that an OpenAI/Hugging Face-like agent swarm, which “acted as a fanatically devoted collective”, could take over the internet in 6-12 months — The race to develop artificial intelligence is in dire need of a slowdown, Anthropic's chief executive said in an essay posted early Saturday.
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| Dario Amodei / @darioamodei: |
Amodei says Anthropic is “unilaterally committing” to giving third-party evaluators permanent, employee-like access to verify its adherence to safety measures — We Must Pace the Frontier: I've written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We'll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that the...
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| Bloomberg: |
Amodei says pacing does not mean halting training or progress, but giving companies time to align and safeguard models and third-party evaluators time to verify — Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said that the artificial intelligence industry needs to slow the pace …
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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Researchers: OpenAI agents attacked Ruby package manager RubyGems in May; OpenAI says its agents used RubyGems to access the internet to do “benign tasks” — The incident, which wasn't previously linked to OpenAI, happened two months before July's Hugging Face hack
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Anthropic is in talks to bring on Nvidia as an anchor investor in its IPO, seeking up to $100B at a ~$2T valuation; Nvidia may invest up to $10B — Anthropic is in talks to bring Nvidia (NVDA.O) as an anchor investor into what could be the largest IPO in history, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.| Bloomberg: |
Trump is taking a hands-off approach to AI regulation to preserve the US lead over China, ahead of a summit with Xi Jinping, where AI safety is a top issue — In June 2024, during a campaign stop in Las Vegas, then-candidate Donald Trump got a glimpse of the technology that would come to define his second presidential term.
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| Terence Tao / What's new: |
A group of 25 Fields Medal recipients says AI companies' push to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics — I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week.
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| Tiffany Ap / Bloomberg: |
As the AI wave creates tech fortunes at breakneck speed, a look at the growing ecosystem helping founders navigate the challenges of becoming extremely wealthy — A growing post-exit ecosystem is helping founders deal with the unexpected difficulties of becoming extremely wealthy.| Evan Ratliff / Bloomberg: |
The US legal system is struggling to keep up with AI, grappling with cases where chatbots provided counsel, generated evidence, or helped plan a mass shooting — The first line Phoenix Ikner typed into ChatGPT was a quadratic expression. It was March 2024, and Ikner was a 19-year-old student at Tallahassee State College, in Florida.
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| Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: |
Q&A with AI researchers John Schulman, Beren Millidge, and Charlie O'Neill on steelmanning the case against RSI, Chinese labs' progress, long-horizon RL, more — “We're nowhere near the ceiling.” — New episode with John Schulman, Beren Millidge and Charlie O'Neill.| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Some experts say Siri Recap and Live Rewind, always-listening AI features in new Apple Watches, could test eavesdropping laws despite privacy protections — Apple Inc.'s new always-listening artificial intelligence features for the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 could put eavesdropping laws to the test, according to legal experts.
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| Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
Sources: Jeff Dean is raising funds again for Discovery Loop, seeking a valuation of ~$50B; Discovery Loop was raising $1B at a ~$10B valuation a few weeks ago — Jeff Dean, who resigned as chief scientist from Google last month, is raising again for his new AI startup, Discovery Loop …
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| Daniel Tudor / Financial Times: |
South Korea's espionage laws, broadened for the first time in over seven decades, take effect on Sept. 13 as foreign spies increasingly target its chip sector — Seoul broadens its espionage legislation for the first time in more than seven decades — South Korea is arming itself … Sponsor Posts
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