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Committee calls for bill to address AI threat to human rights
A cross-party group of MPs and peers has identified human rights risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI) which existing laws, they argue, are ill-equipped to cover. The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) published a report calling for a new bill on AI to address the scale and seriousness of such threats. Nowhere in the world, including the UK, has a current legislative and regulatory approach to AI that is fit for purpose, said Alex Sobel MP, the committee's chair. On Saturday, the head of the US AI company Anthropic, Dario Amodei, proposed a plan that includes global regulation, industry-wide regulation and independent monitoring of AI models as they are developed. Amodei urged the pace of development to be slowed down and the bosses of two rival AI firms, Sam Altman of OpenAI and Elon Musk, said they agreed with him.
Amazon pauses operations with cargo carrier after fatal Miami crash
E-commerce giant Amazon says it is suspending work with the firm that operated a cargo plane that was involved in a fatal crash in Miami this month . After the tragic incident last weekend, we've spent time supporting the investigation and reviewing some of the surrounding circumstances, and we've decided to pause our operations with 21 Air, an Amazon spokesperson said on Sunday. On 6 September, the 21 Air-operated Boeing jet overshot a runway at Miami International Airport and hit several vehicles, killing five people. The BBC has contacted 21 Air for comment. The firm previously said it was devastated by the accident and that it is cooperating with authorities to investigate the incident.
Watch: Why a Russian strike on train near Ukraine-Poland border could mark an escalation
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A Russian drone struck a train near the Ukraine-Poland border shortly after the former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and top European security officials had passed through. No casualties were reported after the strike at Yahodyn, which hit the train's engine. All the passengers had been evacuated, Ukrainian authorities said. Johnson and other European national security advisers, including the UK's Jonathan Powell, had passed along the same line on a different train on their way back from a conference in Kyiv.
WWE star Stephanie Vaquer captures Women's World Championship at Chile live event in surprising moment
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The Papers: 'Compulsory lentils' and 'Boris flees Vlad drone blitz'
Image caption, No ice cream and compulsory lentils in school meal shake-up says the Daily Telegraph, writing that the government will announce rules that will force schools to put pulses on the menu at least once a week in England. Elsewhere, the paper leads with a plea from 800 pub, restaurant and hotel leaders urging Prime Minister Andy Burnham to cut VAT from 20 to 10%. The appeal comes days after Mr Burnham blindsided the industry by handing local authorities the power to impose unlimited tourist taxes, the paper adds. Image caption, The Daily Express reports that Labour tourist tax will hammer seaside B&Bs, with the Conservative Party warning that family businesses and staycation parents pay cost of benefits bill. Céline Dion's triumphant return to concert stage also features on the front page.
Trump dismisses calls for AI slowdown from leading tech CEOs
US President Donald Trump has downplayed the need for his administration to place checks on artificial intelligence development, saying he is worried about ceding the US's lead to China. Speaking to reporters during his trip to Ireland on Sunday, Trump also said he acknowledged the need for some regulation but did not provide further details on potential measures. "We can put guardrails, we can do this and that, but I think you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up, and they're bringing up things that won't happen," Trump told reporters after watching the Irish Open at his resort in Doonbeg. He said that with the US leading the development of AI over China, "frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI wins." Trump's comments came a day after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a blog post saying the AI industry must slow the pace of improving the technology's capabilities to allow time for guardrails.
California lawmakers urge criminal penalties, emergency legislation to rein in unchecked AI
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Xi pitches AI Vision at BRICS summit as China duels with U.S.
Xi pitches AI Vision at BRICS summit as China duels with U.S. Chinese President Xi Jinping has sought to turn the annual BRICS summit into another platform for championing Beijing's vision for artificial intelligence, as it vies for global influence over the technology with the U.S. China will lead the creation of what Xi called a BRICS "community" for open-source AI. Speaking on Sunday in New Delhi, he said the initiative will "support the cooperation in developing and applying large language models," as well as holding AI seminars and training courses for members of the club of major emerging economies. A day earlier, Xi welcomed BRICS nations to join a new group of nearly 30 countries set up by Beijing and called the World AI Cooperation Organization. BRICS must "strengthen cooperation in the field of AI, encourage open source, openness, collaboration and sharing," he said.