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'We cannot set a slower rate of progress for capabilities and then hope that provides enough time to get the safety right.' 'We cannot set a slower rate of progress for capabilities and then hope that provides enough time to get the safety right.' I t has been a week of high drama in AI, precipitated by the resignation of the AI safety researcher Jacob Coxon from Anthropic . This followed several weeks of increasingly lurid and disturbing revelations about the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident. My inbox yesterday included a message from Business Insider with the subject line: "AI doomsday debate reaches boiling point".

'Been thinking a lot about whether it's possible to stop humanity from developing AI,' OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote to Elon Musk in 2015. 'Been thinking a lot about whether it's possible to stop humanity from developing AI,' OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote to Elon Musk in 2015. From Stephen Hawking to Jacob Coxon's viral Anthropic resignation, fears that AI could threaten humanity have shaken the industry without stopping its pursuit Before an Anthropic researcher resigned and declared human extinction imminent last week, tech leaders and scientists had sounded the alarm about a superintelligent AI ending humanity for over a decade. The development of artificial intelligence "could spell the end of the human race", warned professor and astrophysicist Stephen Hawking in 2014 - a little less than a decade before the public got its hands on the generative AI features of the original version of ChatGPT. It's a now-familiar warning, echoed across the AI and tech industry by countless employees and CEOs of the leading frontier labs across the US.

The state pension is likely to rise by £488 to next April to £13,036.40 a year, new official figures suggest. Under the triple lock pension guarantee, the increase is based on either average wage growth, inflation or 2.5% - whichever is highest. Average wage growth, including bonuses, between May and July slowed to 3.9%, according to the Office for National Statistics. The triple lock has come under scrutiny in recent months as the number of pensioners is expected to rise in the coming years, making the policy more expensive. Almost 13 million people receive the state pension in the UK.

President Donald Trump has played down concerns expressed by industry leaders about the misuse of artificial intelligence. President Donald Trump has played down concerns expressed by industry leaders about the misuse of artificial intelligence. President has dismissed anxieties over AI's dangerous potential even as Democrats and some Republicans acknowledge risks Donald Trump is facing a rare backlash from the US Congress as Democrats and some Republicans push for guardrails on the world's most powerful AI companies. Concerns over the dangerous potential of AI reached fever pitch this week after tech leaders sounded the alarm over the rapid advancement of the technology and its potential threat to humanity. Trump dismissed the anxieties on Monday, describing them as a "HOAX" and "conspiracy" and insisting on social media: "The only control or'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!"

Ukraine's postal workers deliver lifeline under Russian fire To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Figure caption, Watch: Ukraine's post office innovation helps isolated communities Every morning Igor Smelyansky looks at a vast map of Ukraine on his office wall and decides where he should put his people in harm's way. His aides provide him with live intelligence about Russian attacks and he deploys his teams, balancing their potential operational success against risk to life or limb. But Smelyansky is no military commander. He is the head of Ukraine's state postal service, Ukrposhta. And every day he must decide how far to send his postmen and women into the deadly kill zone along the front lines where the threat of drone attack is ever present.

Surrogate McKenna West filed an updated brief with the Supreme Court seeking an administrative stay, fearing the baby with hypoplastic left heart syndrome may be moved to California.

Trump says AI safety fears a'hoax' as he rejects calls for greater safeguards To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Figure caption, Watch: Great or alarming - Should AI be reined in? US President Donald Trump has said fears about the safety of AI are a hoax, as he criticised calls to have more guardrails for the fast-moving technology. It comes after Jack Clark, a co-founder of AI giant Anthropic, told the BBC that a kill switch for dangerous AI that can be checked by a third party may need to be mandatory for the industry. Clark's comments followed warnings about the risks the technology poses to humanity that have been raised in recent days by several executives and staff at leading AI firms.

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