… It resulted in a week of total confusion for backers of either policy: AI preemption and child safety might be lumped together in order to ensure preemption gets signed into law, but whose version of child safety gets passed is unclear. …
… When he and others raised concerns, he says, Musk argued that OpenAI’s for-profit makeover created incentives to disregard safety, but his own xAI is for-profit and has, at best, a haphazard approach to safety. …
… That age verification has typically required users to either upload credit card information or government ID, or agree to a face scan to estimate their age. “Tech companies have had countless opportunities to keep children safe, yet they have failed to act,” said technology secretary Liz Kendall. “… …
… Again, you manage a complicated safety structure, so I’m just asking you abstractly. If you had to pick a structure for that to happen in, does that look like a government regulation? …
… Alyssa Cass, a spokeswoman for the Bores campaign, said that they’d initially thought it would be harder to make voters care about AI safety. “AI regulation is his strength, but it’s gonna take us a lot of work to make this a salient issue in the district,” she told The Verge. “And they, starting i… …
… The company emphasized a few key principles in its presentation of the new child safety features: that parents should be the ones to decide what their kids have access to, that Apple’s recommendations will be shaped by expert research that balances risks and benefits of technology for kids, and tha… …
… OpenAI and Anthropic had already agreed to share their models with CAISI back in 2024 under President Joe Biden as part of Biden’s push for AI safety guardrails. …
… One party tells The New York Times that Amazon had found a way to “jailbreak” the safety guardrails preventing users from using Fable for cyberattacks. A second party countered to the Times that one could achieve the same results with OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5.5. …
… Carson, a former Democratic congressman, opposes efforts to override state AI regulations and is also part of Public First Action, which is affiliated with super PACs political action committees dedicated to supporting candidates that will back public safeguards against AI. …
… In attendance, spotted among the dancers dressed like robots on stilts: AI lobbyists, AI safety nonprofits, tech industry representatives, tech journalists, Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary, senior administration officials — Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Mehmet Oz, Departm… …