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The Australian Signals Directorate chief, Abigail Bradshaw, believes there are'a lot' of AI agents active on the internet. The Australian Signals Directorate chief, Abigail Bradshaw, believes there are'a lot' of AI agents active on the internet. Australia's outdated technology is vulnerable to AI hacking attacks, signals chief says Abigail Bradshaw says'enormous' amounts of money required to update systems that people now expect to be constantly available One of Australia's top intelligence agencies has warned that AI attacks could exploit the country's old technology, as the government negotiates its guardrails on artificial intelligence's rapid development. The chief of Anthropic, developer of Claude, has warned AI bots could swarm the internet within a year and called to "slow the pace" of development with support from the head of OpenAI and Elon Musk . Abigail Bradshaw, the director general of the Australian Signals Directorate, said her agency did not know how many AI agents were active on the internet.

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Donald Trump said China would benefit from a slowdown in US AI development. Donald Trump said China would benefit from a slowdown in US AI development. President hits out after Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX leaders back call to limit'reckless' development Donald Trump has dismissed calls to increase controls on AI as a "sick conspiracy", as stocks linked to the technology slumped after appeals from leading developers on the weekend for the industry to slow down. The US president wrote on social media: "The only control or'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the USA has that, in spades!" It came after the chief executive of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, appealed for the AI industry to limit "reckless" development .

China rejects AI'threat narratives', urges global cooperation China rejects AI'threat narratives', urges global cooperation China called for international cooperation on artificial intelligence, warning that "threat narratives" could disrupt global AI governance. The comments follow Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call for AI firms to slow model development over safety and national security concerns. Share China rejects AI'threat narratives', urges global cooperation on social media US may be'forced to intervene' in the Red Sea

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'Silent Cold War': Why calls to slow AI have sparked new US-China frontier Share'Silent Cold War': Why calls to slow AI have sparked new US-China frontier on social media China has warned against "fear-mongering" after the CEO of a top artificial intelligence (AI) company in the United States sounded the alarm against AI advancement and called for restrictions on the sale of AI chips to China. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday called for the development of the most powerful AI systems to be slowed down, warning that they could soon pose potentially catastrophic risks to humanity itself. The dispute comes as Washington and Beijing compete over increasingly capable AI models, with US President Donald Trump declaring, "Whoever wins AI wins." So, what has got AI giants worried, why is China being seen as a threat? Why are AI tech giants raising the alarm?

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