Trump signs executive order to review AI models before they’re released
… 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. …
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Musk v. Altman proved that AI is led by the wrong people
… 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. …
AI backlash is coming for elections
… There’s also bipartisan concern over AI chatbot companions’ impact on kids. While Republican politicians have led the push to override state AI laws, there’s still disagreement within both parties Even so, with months left until the election, debates — and outright fights — over AI are heating up. …
That UL logo is more complicated than it looks
… The Biden administration really pushed for AI safety and they had a set of standards that they wanted to promulgate. President Obama was on the show talking about the need for AI safety. …
Hackers are learning to exploit chatbot ‘personalities’
… Jamie Bartlett takes a look at the psychological toll testing the safety of AI systems takes on jailbreakers for The Guardian. I wrote about the cybersecurity time bomb of AI browsers for The Verge last year. …
Meta’s own AI was exploited to hijack Instagram accounts
… Like many other tech companies, Meta has carried out sweeping layoffs while pushing remaining employees to increase their usage of AI tools. …
Tesla’s Cybercab goes into production — so why is Musk tapping the brakes?
… The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, under President Biden, launched an investigation into Zoox’s self-certification claim, but that investigation was closed after President Trump took office. …
Interior design at 25,000 mph
… And those human factors — the personal, sometimes intangible feeling of interacting with technology that just works in a way that is intuitive and enhances daily life — are now at the forefront of spacecraft design. The first and foremost principle of human factors has always been safety. …
Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman’s “unconstrained” relationship with the truth
… There is no federal statute protecting AI company employees who disclose these kinds of safety concerns that are being aired in this piece. We have cases where Jan Leike, who was a senior safety guy at OpenAI, was leading super alignment at the company. …
Speech and Moderation
… FTC Chairman Ferguson Advises Companies to Comply with the Take It Down Act Federal Trade Commission DOGE used ChatGPT in a way that was both dumb and illegal, judge rules Emma Roth May 8 ABC and Disney accuse Trump admin of violating First Amendment rights Lauren Feiner May 8 New Mexico has a plan… …