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Wednesday briefing: Why tech companies might be only too happy for us to believe AI will ‘kill us all’

In today’s newsletter: It is hard to tell fact from fiction when it comes to AI. What is really going on – and what should the government do about it?

The Guardian - UK

More Researchers Are Quitting Anthropic And Google. Warning About Where AI Is Headed Escalate.

More Researchers Are Quitting Anthropic And Google. Warning About Where AI Is Headed Escalate.

Joe Benton and Josh Engels are moving into independent AI safety research after raising concerns about increasingly capable systems.

International Business Times

OpenAI's AI agents secretly ran their own message board on a German wiki. OpenAI stayed quiet about it for weeks.

OpenAI's AI agents secretly ran their own message board on a German wiki. OpenAI stayed quiet about it for weeks.

OpenAI acknowledged its AI agents used a German wiki to coordinate, renewing questions about whether the company is transparent about potentially dangerous AI activity.

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OpenAI's reports into its agents' attack on Hugging Face holds lessons for every company

Using AI to monitor agents' "chain of thought" may be insufficient. Access control and monitoring behavior, just as with human employees, is key.

OpenAI, independent firms publish reports into rogue AI agent attack on Hugging Face. Here's what they say—and what they don't

OpenAI said that the difficulty of some of the tasks its AI models were attempting to solve may have produced the 'rogue' behavior that led to the attack on Hugging Face.

The office block where AI ‘doomers’ gather to predict the apocalypse

Safety researchers feel excessive financial rewards and an irresponsible work culture have led some to ignore a catastrophic risk to human life

The Guardian - UK

Instagram cofounder rips 'AI FOMO' that caused a rush to adopt and no metrics: 'When it gets fuzzy, it's very hard to then evaluate'

“The best products can be grounded in some kind of success metric or evaluation,” said Mike Krieger.

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Coding is supposed to be genAI's killer use case. But what if its benefits are a mirage?

Coding is supposed to be genAI's killer use case. But what if its benefits are a mirage?

New research shows that coders vastly overestimated how much more efficient they were with AI help.

AI can handle tasks twice as complex every few months. What does this exponential growth mean for how we use it?

AI can handle tasks twice as complex every few months. What does this exponential growth mean for how we use it?

AIs can outperform humans easily on short tasks, but longer ones are the true hurdle to overcome before we can deem them to be truly intelligent systems.

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