Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition: AI’s X-risk breaks into the mainstream Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls for a coordinated industry safety effort Anthropic details attempts to misuse its AI models China’s top spy warns AI could pose a risk to the Communist Party OpenAI is violating California’s new AI safety
Nicola Coughlan, Matt Lucas and Hugh Bonneville are among the high-profile names backing a new campaign against AI voice cloning. Titled “Save Our Voices Now,” the initiative calls for greater protections against AI technology being used to replicate a person’s voice, according to The Guardian. The group of over 80 industry names — which also
Credit: David Goddard/Getty Can commercial funding fill a £42 million (US$56 million) a year hole in the finances of some of the UK’s most iconic laboratories and science facilities? That is the challenge facing sites run by the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), which funds the Diamond Light Source (the national synchrotron facility