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At this week's UN General Assembly, Trump said the US “totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control … artificial intelligence” @ShakeelHashim says that AI governance is coming anyway – and by opposing every version of it, Trump is giving up any say in what it looks like transformernews.ai/p/trump-c…
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Here’s a timeline of the OpenAI Australia hack – what’s the first thing you notice? OpenAI learned about the breach in August, as part of a post-Hugging-Face investigation – yet didn’t notify the Australian government until September 10 (even then only sending an email to a generic email address for disclosures)
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Australian PM @AlboMP said: “It took the company way too long to inform the Government what had occurred, and the nature of the way that that notification occurred as well was unacceptable” transformernews.ai/p/openai-…
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Transformative technologies have always come with disasters – and it’s likely AI won't be the exception. But what decides a technology's future isn't the disaster, it's the response. Read @DuncanWeldon on what we can learn from history: transformernews.substack.com…
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Trump says there is a “SICK conspiracy” against AI and data centers, and has staked out a position of doing exactly nothing about AI risk. The polling points the other way, writes @ShakeelHashim: 60% of voters – and 65% of swing voters – want the US to slow AI development even if China gets ahead. Republicans in tight races have already started breaking from the president's messaging ⬇️ transformernews.ai/p/trump-a…
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Our editor @ShakeelHashim joined @IainDale on LBC last night to answer listener's questions about AI Watch the entire thing here: lbc.co.uk/videos/2JsSfE7xmc6…
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Globally, AI's environmental footprint could stay modest compared to transportation or manufacturing Locally, though? Think wells running dry, air pollution around on-site gas turbines, and copper mines in countries like Chile and Peru competing with towns for scarce water Read more from @amitkatwala: transformernews.ai/p/ai-expa…
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“The combination of dire warnings from insiders and growing real-world evidence of rogue AIs should, in a sane world, lead to government action. Instead, Donald Trump and the Republican leadership have their heads in the sand” @ReadTransformer editor @ShakeelHashim for @guardian ✍️ theguardian.com/technology/2…
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Trump and Republicans want AI companies to regulate themselves. It’s a dereliction of duty that is failing Americans — and humanity as a whole. New from me in The Guardian: theguardian.com/technology/2…
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New from me: Some argue there is no point in pacing the AI frontier until China cooperates. But Beijing is unlikely to take American calls for restraint seriously unless Washington is willing to restrain itself. If the United States wants effective AI diplomacy with China, what it does at home may matter as much as what it says at the negotiating table. I’m delighted to partner with @ReadTransformer for my first-ever cross-posted Substack essay—a look at how Beijing is approaching U.S.-China AI diplomacy, and what Washington needs to do to make that diplomacy more credible and effective. transformernews.ai/p/bargain…
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Could we get to a point where the US and China see eye-to-eye on AI? As @JulianGewirtz explores in his latest piece for Transformer, neither side wants to be the first to pump the breaks The key to bargaining with China – he suggests – could be America regulating itself … transformernews.ai/p/bargain…
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