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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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. …
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. …
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says there are three labs that matter — and he wants Microsoft to be the fourth.
… Suleyman made sure to emphasize, again and again, Microsoft’s “humanist superintelligence” as an “AI that prioritizes humanity first” — part of AI companies’ recent rebrand of AGI to make it sound less frightening in an era when people are pushing back against AI more than ever before. …
How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House
… For the past year, he had been a vocal champion of pro-industry deregulation, repealing former President Joe Biden’s massive executive order on AI safety, lifting export controls on advanced chips, and signing executive orders that would have legally punished states for passing and enforcing AI law… …
AI warfare is already here
… But Silicon Valley executives are aggressively pushing back against employee organizing and speaking out, including by using AI to identify leakers. And many tech workers already fear for their jobs in an era when AI is set to replace entry-level roles at their own firms. …
Skydio CEO Adam Bry on why Silicon Valley shouldn’t draw red lines for drone use
… I do want to emphasize that it’s fair and right that public safety and the military get a lot of attention, but this is not all that we do. …
Who decides when AI is too dangerous?
… One of OpenAI’s biggest marketing pushes right now is, “Oh, Anthropic wants the most powerful AI to only be in the hands of the elites and we want to bring it to the public.” So there are a bunch of different marketing pushes right now. …