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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Alex Hern

TechScape: The people charged with making sure AI doesn’t destroy humanity have left the building

A still from a flm made using OpenAI/Sora, one of the ‘shiny new products’ the company is accused of over-focusing on.
A still from a flm made using OpenAI/Sora, one of the ‘shiny new products’ the company is accused of over-focusing on. Photograph: openai.com/sora

Everything happens so much. I’m in Seoul for the International AI summit, the half-year follow-up to last year’s Bletchley Park AI safety summit (the full sequel will be in Paris this autumn). While you read this, the first day of events will have just wrapped up – though, in keeping with the reduced fuss this time round, that was merely a “virtual” leaders’ meeting.

When the date was set for this summit – alarmingly late in the day for, say, a journalist with two preschool children for whom four days away from home is a juggling act – it was clear that there would be a lot to cover. The hot AI summer is upon us:

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