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The quest to build better defenses for AI risks
'Societal resilience' measures might offer some protection to the proliferation of dangerous AI capabilities
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Lynette Bye
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AI coding tools are quietly reshaping software development
They’re making an economic impact, despite not being very good yet
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Lynette Bye
Decentralized training isn't a policy nightmare — yet
Governments should still be able to keep track of who's training frontier models — though a shift to reinforcement learning could make that harder
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Lynette Bye
The embarrassing failure of the Paris AI Summit
Experts are sounding the alarm — but governments simply won’t listen
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Shakeel Hashim
Leaked: this is the AI Action Summit statement
The statement, set to be signed by countries next week, is a 'wasted opportunity', experts say — and looks unlikely to be signed by US officials
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Shakeel Hashim
Exclusive: Americans overwhelmingly support AI safety mandates, new poll finds
The public would rather ban AI development than have no regulation at all
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Shakeel Hashim
The way we evaluate AI model safety might be about to break
As systems become more capable, researchers think we need a new type of safety evaluation
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Lynette Bye
Does Elon still care about AI safety?
He’s doing a terrible job of showing it.
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Shakeel Hashim
New AI export controls have leaked. Here’s what you need to know.
The new rules are squarely focused on the frontier
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Shakeel Hashim
The media needs to start taking AGI seriously
An essay for Nieman Lab's 2025 Predictions series
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Shakeel Hashim
OpenAI's new model tried to avoid being shut down
o1 attempted to exfiltrate its weights to avoid being shut down
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Shakeel Hashim
The 2024 Transformer Gift Guide
The must-buy items for the AI policy people in your life
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Shakeel Hashim
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