The Download: an AI safety hotline, and tech for farmers

In the past couple of years, regulators have been caught off guard again and again as tech companies compete to launch ever more advanced AI models. As it stands, it seems there's little anyone can do to delay or prevent the release of a model that poses excessive risks. Existing measures to mitigate AI risks aren't enough to protect us, so we need new approaches. One could be a kind of AI safety hotline tasked with expert volunteers. Read more about how the hotline could work.