Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue questioned the focus on a former Anthropic researcher who said AI workers privately fear the technology could kill all humans. “Sorry, but asking Jacob about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change,” Delangue wrote on X on Friday. Delangue said that Jacob Coxon, the former
Nscale, the buzzy U.K.-based AI data center startup, has appointed former OpenAI, Meta, and Instacart executive Fidji Simo to its board. Simo joins high-profile tech executives Sheryl Sandberg, Susan Decker, and Nick Clegg on Nscale’s board ahead of the startup’s anticipated IPO this fall. Formerly CEO of AGI deployment at OpenAI, essentially the No. 2
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan says people are getting distracted by Hollywood-style doomsday scenarios when they should be focused on the real AI risks emerging today. “I think that we need to be focused on science fact, not science fiction,” Tan said in a CNBC interview on Thursday. “I saw ‘Terminator 2’ also. It’s a
The latest math problem OpenAI is trying to solve is a bunch of angry mathematicians. A researcher at OpenAI said on Thursday that the ChatGPT maker is no longer sponsoring Caltech’s “math hackathon,” an event where participants use large language models to solve research problems. OpenAI’s exit follows an open letter released on Wednesday from
Welcome to Eye on AI. Beatrice Nolan here. In today’s issue: Anthropic examines the economic impact of AI. U.S. accuses Chinese AI firms of industrial-scale model copying. Meta launches its AI agent, Muse. And the amount businesses spend on AI is falling. Anthropic has three very different visions for the impact AI will have on
OpenAI has asked members of Congress in recent weeks for clear guidance about whether orchestrating an industry-wide slowdown on frontier AI development would be legal, people close to the company tell WIRED. Substantive coordination on safety between AI labs may risk running afoul of antitrust law, the people say, which poses a significant obstacle to