US lawmakers may have only about a year to put meaningful guardrails around artificial intelligence before AI advances to the point where it could become “out of control,” warned the “Godfather of AI.” Speaking after a briefing with members of Congress on Wednesday, Geoffrey Hinton said the window for regulating advanced AI has narrowed dramatically
OpenAI is putting its misbehaving models on the record. The AI company announced a new framework on Wednesday for tracking, investigating, and publicly disclosing cases of model misalignment, alongside six reports detailing concerning behavior observed during training or evaluation over the past six months. “We do not believe that the AI industry has solved alignment
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has a straightforward rule for companies building powerful AI: Keep people in charge. “We should do what it takes to build stuff that serves humanity first and is in human control,” Nadella told the audience at the All-In Summit on Tuesday. “You’ve got to have choice. You have to have competition.
For months, Wall Street debated whether AI spending had become too much, too fast. Now, after calls by some of the industry’s biggest names to slow frontier AI development, investors are asking whether AI spending could slow, too. “Does a “pacing slowdown” necessarily imply a spending slowdown? We don’t think so,” Bernstein analysts wrote Monday,
The most powerful AI models keep going awry, according to the companies building them. The disclosures come as frontier AI models get more powerful and more capable of acting autonomously. They also highlight a growing challenge for the companies building them —the systems designed to test increasingly capable models can have weaknesses of their own.
The AI world is looking to D.C. for clarity. On Tuesday, staffers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and other tech companies convened in Washington to review the administration’s new framework for reviewing advanced AI models. Now, the rest of the industry eagerly awaits answers on what will be included in the framework — a structured way
