As ChatGPT's first birthday approaches, presents are rolling in for the large language model that rocked the world. From President Joe Biden comes an oversized "Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence." And UK prime minister Rishi Sunak threw a party with a cool extinction-of-the-human-race theme, wrapped up with a 28-country agreement (counting the EU as a single country) promising international cooperation to develop AI responsibly. Before anyone gets too excited, let's remember that it has been over half a century since credible studies predicted disastrous climate change. Now that the water is literally lapping at our feet and heat is making whole chunks of civilization uninhabitable, the international order has hardly made a dent in the gigatons of fossil fuel carbon dioxide spewing into the atmosphere.

Science fiction, for decades, has been about predicting the future--and warning against it. Even as Star Trek envisioned the wonders of flip phones and iPads, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash warned of the dystopian nature of the metaverse. Throughout 2023, as artificial intelligence has creeped its way into every corner of public, private, and creative life, it's been easy to see the lessons sci-fi tried to teach. On Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data was a bot who worked in harmony with organic beings; Hal 9000, in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, (spoiler) goes all murder-y to save its own life. Too often, it seems like the minds pushing AI watched too much Trek and not enough Kubrick.

Russia has launched dozens of drone attacks and fired shells and missiles against civilian infrastructure, Ukraine reports. Kyiv said two dozen Russian drones and a missile were downed overnight as concern grows that Moscow is once again targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure ahead of winter. Officials in Kharkiv reported civilian targets were hit by shelling and drone attacks. The General Staff of Ukraine's military said Russian drones targeted several areas across Ukraine and were launched from Russia's Kursk region and the Primorsk-Akhtarsk area. "As a result of combat operations, in cooperation with the defence forces of Ukraine, 24 attack bpla'Shahed-136/131' [drones] and one controlled aviation missile were destroyed," the statement said, using the acronym for "bezpilotniy letayuschiy apparat", or "pilotless flying equipment".

As Waymo robotaxis plucked up passengers for free this week in Santa Monica and Venice, worry grew among Los Angeles officials about the safety of driverless cars on city streets. Mayor Bass asked regulators Wednesday to increase their scrutiny of automated taxis and said the city should have a say in how they are regulated. The move comes after a Cruise robotaxi dragged a person down a San Francisco street last month and the company allegedly failed to disclose the footage to the state Department of Motor Vehicles. The DMV suspended the General Motors-owned company's permits and Cruise has since announced it will suspend U.S. operations. The incident in San Francisco -- where the two driverless fleets were doing business -- was among several that raised red flags among Los Angeles officials, who have begun to see more and more robotaxis being tested on city streets.

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In some ways the last two days have marked a real move forward in AI regulation. There is now an explicit consensus to take on an international shared responsibility. There are plans for further meetings in South Korea and France over the next year to continue the conversation surrounding risks posed by AI. However, critics have said that the focus on the more hypothetical aspects of existential threats as opposed to the more current, pressing problems – such as insurance companies using AI to determine your risk or AI's potential to take people's jobs – dilutes the impact of the summit. This is an edited extract from the First Edition newsletter – sign up here for our free daily email, taking you through the top stories and what they mean.

Seekr Technologies CEO Pat Condo spoke with Fox News Digital about a partnership with Bear Grylls to encourage digital media literacy among young people. Experts tell Fox News Digital that the Biden administration's plan to establish an artificial intelligence (AI) safety commission may prove "necessary" but not "sufficient" to address potential risks for the burgeoning technology. "The odds are [the algorithm] is not where the majority of the risk lies," said Phil Siegel, founder of the Center for Advanced Preparedness and Threat Response Simulation (CAPTRS). "It is more likely the risk lies in the users either using it for bad or just plain misusing it." President Biden on Monday signed an executive order that the White House said included the "most sweeping actions ever taken to protect Americans from the potential risks of AI systems" – the requirement for companies to notify the government when training new models and sharing results of "read-team safety tests."

Over and over during Sam Bankman-Fried's trial, lawyers showed pictures of the FTX founder living his best life. There he was at the Super Bowl flanked by Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom. There he was on a private jet, sleeping with his hands folded. There he was onstage, in shorts and a T-shirt, with Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. The very traits that made him a cause célèbre in Silicon Valley--his intellect, his obsession with scale, his story--turned into liabilities.

Two people were killed and the power supply was disrupted in Russian shelling of Ukraine's southern Kherson region. There were more than 40 hits in the village," regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said on the Telegram messaging app. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces repelled a new Russian assault near the town of Vuhledar between the eastern and southern front lines in eastern Donetsk. Zelenskyy said the Russians had suffered "heavy losses" with many soldiers killed and wounded. Oleksandr Shtupun, a spokesman for Ukraine's military command, said Russian forces were trying to regroup and recover their losses near the eastern city of Avdiivka before trying to press ahead with its attempt to encircle the ruined town. Russia accused Ukraine of risking nuclear disaster after it shot down nine Ukrainian drones near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, which has been occupied by Russia since early March 2022. The drones were shot down near the Russian-held city of Enerhodar, where many of the plant's workers live. Russia and Ukraine have each accused the other of attacks near the plant. Russia said its air defences also brought down five Ukrainian drones over Crimea and one over the Black Sea. Russia jailed two more Ukrainian soldiers who fought in the city of Mariupol to lengthy prison sentences, as it continued to put dozens of prisoners of war on trial. Russia took thousands of Ukrainian soldiers captive after it seized Mariupol last May. Some were sent to Russia while others have been tried by Moscow-backed courts in occupied parts of eastern Ukraine. Under international law, soldiers cannot be prosecuted for having fought for their country. Two people were killed and the power supply was disrupted in Russian shelling of Ukraine's southern Kherson region. There were more than 40 hits in the village," regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said on the Telegram messaging app.

Friday's papers focus on a diverse mix of topics. The Daily Telegraph reports on the second and final day of the AI summit at Bletchley Park, during which Prime Minister Rishi Sunak interviewed billionaire X and Tesla owner Elon Musk, who told the PM that technology will "do everything" in the future and that people would only need to work if they want to for "personal satisfaction". Mr Musk and Mr Sunak also discussed the tax system and whether robots can become "real friends".