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DeepMind cofounder warns AI capabilities must not outrun safety controls: FT

AI companies' warnings about recursive self-improvement come as researchers report that increasingly capable AI agents can write software, perform autonomous tasks and assist in developing AI systems. This raises concerns that the technology could advance faster than safeguards to monitor and control it.

The Economic Times

‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI

The long read: Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any difference?

The Guardian - UK

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says ‘We’ve achieved AGI.’ But no one can agree on what AGI means.

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang said last week that “AGI has already been achieved.” Recent research says it hasn’t been—and proposes new ways to measure it.

Fortune

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Google DeepMind 145-page paper predicts AGI matching top human skills could arrive by 2030

DeepMind has released a lengthy paper outlining its approach to AI safety as it tries to build advanced systems that could surpass human intelligence.

Fortune

‘Well the end of aging and death wouldn’t be bad’: Professor who coined the term AGI for superintelligence thinks we’ll get human-level AI in ‘three to five years’

Dr Ben Goertzel on the future of artificial general intelligence and what it can do for mankind.

TechRadar

The hypocrisy of AI doomerism

Wannabe Cassandras warning of AI's potential for human extinction are some of the biggest champions of the industry

Salon

What next for the AI revolution? Inside Google DeepMind, the world’s biggest AI company

Everyone laughed politely when I asked whether AI might, in the end, kill us all — everyone apart from one researcher from a US-based thinktank who told me that, as a pessimist, he believes there is about a “20 per cent chance that AI poses an existential threat to life.”

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