TechCrunch AI reports that Google DeepMind has launched a new institute designed to widen discussion and surface differing views on artificial general intelligence.
The initiative aims to bring together divergent perspectives across Google, Google DeepMind, and the global research community as frontier AI advances.
Princeton's AI Snake Oil blog argues a third AI safety position: existential-risk warnings may be sincere yet unsound, citing chronic underinvestment in pandemic and cyber catastrophe preparedness.
The Guardian reports experts warning that AI could supercharge election disinformation in south-east Asia, where campaigns that once needed teams to build fake sites and accounts now need only AI.
MIT AI News reports MIT professor Sherry Turkle's book 'Artificial Intimacy,' published Sept. 29, concludes chatbot use is broadly detrimental to human development and social connection.
In a Guardian column, Timnit Gebru and Emily M. Bender cite a CNN report that US military reliance on brittle chatbots nearly brought the US into war with China.
The Guardian reports California governor candidates Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton clashed in a CNN debate over taxes, immigration and AI regulation days before ballots go out.
The Guardian reports Australian communications minister Anika Wells made Time's 'most influential rising stars' list for her work on the country's under-16 social media ban and taking on big tech.