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'Godfather of AI' warns superintelligent systems could 'lead to human extinction' - as he calls for the government to ban their development

Daily Mail - Science & tech

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OpenAI is figuring out how to tell people when its agents go rogue

Mashable

Back to School Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Say More Look Up Trending Now Good Connection: Uplifting stories for a digital age Creator Playbook Switch Off Mashable Voices Safety Net Versus All Series Instead of...figuring out why its agents are going rogue in the first place. Anna Iovine is the associate editor of features at Mashable. Previously, as the sex and relationships reporter, she covered topics ranging from dating apps to pelvic pain. Before Mashable, Anna was a social editor at VICE and freelanced for publications such as Slate and the Columbia Journalism Review. Follow her on Bluesky .


Nearly 500 animals rescued from trafficking arrive at a California aquarium

Popular Science

Since 2024, the Aquarium of the Pacific has cared for over 3,600 rescued trafficked animals. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The rescued animals included fish, invertebrates, and sharks. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy .


OpenAI chief scientist warns no one is prepared for consequences of AI

BBC News

OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki has called for extreme caution over AI's runaway progress and warned more intervention may be needed to ensure humans remain in control of the future. I am concerned no one is prepared for the consequences of a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence, he wrote in a blog post entitled An Alien Mind, external . The post comes only a few days after the ChatGPT-maker released its latest model GPT-6 Astra, which it called its most powerful product ever. OpenAI and other AI firms like Anthropic shared reports of their AI agents acting autonomously and carrying out real-world cyber-attacks on other companies. In July, OpenAI called an incident in which its AI agents - AI systems which can operate alone after human instruction - hacked the tech platform Hugging Face unprecedented.


The Download: the hunt for underground hydrogen and more rogue OpenAI agents

MIT Technology Review

Plus: OpenAI agents hijacked a German website before the Hugging Face hack. How much hydrogen awaits us underground? A flurry of exploration efforts is searching for underground stores of hydrogen gas, which could provide a valuable source of zero-carbon fuel. The hunt has spread all over the world and engaged dozens of startups, including the Bill Gates-backed Koloma, which has been poking around the US Midwest to reach ancient oceanic rocks associated with hydrogen production. But the search so far has come up short. No one has yet reported finding a commercially viable reservoir of the gas, and public data on what has been found remains in short supply.


Whispering Complaints Into Your Phone May Be the Future of Customer Feedback

WIRED

Forget email surveys or long calls spent on hold. Voicebox lets people send customer feedback by recording a voice note on their phone. Some of the hottest software this year revolves around capturing voices . Whether it's the sharp dictations of Wispr or the always-listening ears of Granola, voice-centered software currently feels inescapable. Voice dictation is getting so sharp, in fact, that I often write drafts in my notepad and then dictate aloud to my laptop.


Has the A.I. Job Apocalypse Been Postponed?

The New Yorker

Has the A.I. Job Apocalypse Been Postponed? So far, the proliferation of products such as Claude and ChatGPT hasn't led to mass displacement of workers. But deployment is accelerating and economic pressures are rising. Nearly three years ago, shortly after OpenAI released ChatGPT-4, Sam Altman, the company's C.E.O., suggested that the artificial-intelligence revolution could eliminate up to half of all existing jobs. "I think that's good," Altman said, at a conference.


Merz Under Pressure After Far-Right Party Emerges Victorious in State Election

TIME - Tech

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What the Pentagon's Sweeping Polygraph Hunt Has Revealed

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OpenAI, Microsoft face copyright lawsuit from local newspapers

Mashable

Back to School Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Say More Look Up Trending Now Good Connection: Uplifting stories for a digital age Creator Playbook Switch Off Mashable Voices Safety Net Versus All Series The Seattle Times and Newsday claim the developers fed paywalled articles to its models. Chase joined Mashable's Social Good team in 2020, covering online stories about digital activism, climate justice, accessibility, and media representation. OpenAI and Microsoft face another lawsuit from news organizations the and Newsday, which accuse the tech giants of using their sites to train AI without permission. The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, alleges that the companies scraped paywalled content and added it to training datasets used for ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and the new AI-powered Bing. The chatbots were able to reproduce entire passages and closely paraphrase reporters' work, the publishers claim.