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Putin says drone attacks on Moscow are attempt by Ukraine 'to intimidate Russia'
Senior foreign affairs correspondent Greg Palkot reports the latest from London. Russian President Vladimir Putin is speaking out following a drone attack on Moscow, calling the strikes an attempt by Ukraine to "intimidate" his country. The remarks come after eight drones targeted Russia's capital early Tuesday before being shot down or diverted with electronic jammers. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the attack caused "insignificant damage" to several buildings and that two people received treatment for unspecified injuries but did not need hospitalization. Residents of two high-rise buildings damaged in the attack were evacuated.
How the World Must Respond to the AI Revolution
The now-surging development of artificial intelligence will produce medical breakthroughs that save and enhance billions of lives. It will become the most powerful engine for prosperity in history. It will give untold numbers of people, including generations not yet born, powerful tools their ancestors never imagined. But the risks and challenges AI will pose are becoming clear too, and now is the time to understand and address them. The health of democracy and free markets depends on access to accurate and verifiable information.
UK should play leading role on global AI guidelines, Sunak to tell Biden
Rishi Sunak will tell Joe Biden next week the UK should become a global hub for developing international regulation of artificial intelligence, as the prime minister rapidly shifts his position on the emerging technology. Sunak will travel to Washington DC on 7 and 8 June for meetings with the US president, as well as members of Congress and business leaders. Officials have told the Guardian that while there, Sunak intends to raise the issue of AI regulation, and specifically call for Britain to play a leading role in coordinating the formulation of global guidelines for its use. The British government issued a white paper on AI this year, which spoke mainly of the benefits of AI rather than the risks it poses. But ministers are changing that position quickly, as experts warn the technology could present an existential threat to humankind.
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Almost 60% of people want regulation of AI in UK workplaces, survey finds
Almost 60% of people would like to see the UK government regulate the use of generative AI technologies such as ChatGPT in the workplace to help safeguard jobs, according to a survey. As leading figures in the tech industry call for restrictions on the rapid development of AI, research by the Prospect trade union suggests strong public support for regulation. In a survey of more than 1,000 people last month, 58% agreed that "the government should set rules around the use of generative AI to protect workers' jobs". Just 12% said the government should not interfere because "the benefits are likely to outweigh any costs". Employers have used various forms of AI for some time – including in target-setting, and hiring and firing decisions – but the salience of the technologies has increased dramatically since the release of ChatGPT, which hit 100 million users within two months of launch.
The Morning After: Industry leaders say AI presents 'risk of extinction' on par with nuclear war
With the rise of AI language models and tools like ChatGPT and Bard, we've heard warnings from people involved, like Elon Musk, about the risks posed by AI. Now, a group of high-profile industry leaders has issued a one-sentence statement: "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war." It was posted to the Center for AI Safety, an organization with the mission "to reduce societal-scale risks from artificial intelligence," according to its website. Signatories include OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and Google DeepMind head Demis Hassabis. Turing Award-winning researchers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, the godfathers of modern AI, also put their names to it.
China isn't waiting to set down rules on generative AI
Last week, I went on the CBC News podcast "Nothing Is Foreign" to talk about the draft regulation--and what it means for the Chinese government to take such quick action on a still-very-new technology. As I said in the podcast, I see the draft regulation as a mixture of sensible restrictions on AI risks and a continuation of China's strong government tradition of aggressive intervention in the tech industry. Many of the clauses in the draft regulation are principles that AI critics are advocating for in the West: data used to train generative AI models shouldn't infringe on intellectual property or privacy; algorithms shouldn't discriminate against users on the basis of race, ethnicity, age, gender, and other attributes; AI companies should be transparent about how they obtained training data and how they hired humans to label the data. At the same time, there are rules that other countries would likely balk at. The government is asking that people who use these generative AI tools register with their real identity--just as on any social platform in China.
Russia accuses US of 'encouraging terrorists' after Moscow strike
The United States is encouraging Ukraine to launch cross-border "terrorist" attacks, a Russian official alleged, after Moscow was hit by a series of drone strikes. The White House, meanwhile, said on Tuesday it did not support attacks inside Russia, and that it is still gathering information on the incident. "What are these attempts to hide behind the phrase they are'gathering information'?" Anatoly Antonov, Russia's ambassador to the US, said in remarks published on the Telegram messaging channel. "This is an encouragement for Ukrainian terrorists."
Next generation arms race could cause 'extinction' event akin to nuclear war, pandemic: tech chief
Artificial intelligence could lead to extinction and should be a global priority on the scale of nuclear war and pandemics, Center for AI Safety chief Dan Hendrycks said. An artificial intelligence arms race between countries and corporations to see who can develop the most powerful AI machines could create an existential threat to humanity, the co-founder of an AI safety nonprofit told Fox News. "AI could pose the risk of extinction, and part of the reason for this is because we're currently locked in an AI arms race," Center for AI Safety Executive Director Dan Hendrycks said. "We're building increasingly powerful technologies, and we don't know how to completely control them or understand them." Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, signed the Center for AI Safety's statement saying that AI poses an existential threat to humanity.
AI has power to 'manipulate' Americans, says Sen. Josh Hawley, advocates for right to sue tech companies
Sen. Josh Hawley sat down with Fox News Digital for a wide-ranging interview about his new book, "Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs." Senator Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is very concerned about the power of Artificial Intelligence to "manipulate Americans and the "facts" they are given from the technology on a daily basis. "I'm worried about AI's power to manipulate our attention, to manipulate our opinions and to manipulate the information that we're given," he told Fox News Digital in a recent in-person interview. The Missouri senator, the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, continued, "Already you can see these generative AI systems – these large language models – that are trained on all the information on the internet." AI WILL BE THE POLITICAL LEFT'S'SINGLE GREATEST WEAPON' AGAINST RELIGIOUS FAITH AND TRUTH, SAYS EXPERT He added, "You can train them on your own.