'Like the Trump administration, the tech overlords have proceeded on the assumption they can ignore or override the will of the people.' 'Like the Trump administration, the tech overlords have proceeded on the assumption they can ignore or override the will of the people.' The midterms will be a referendum on the GOP's alignment with tech overlords over the public they're meant to serve "The world should accept some bad things happening," Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, said recently, "for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency." Like so many things tech oligarchs say, it's incoherent, since Altman would like to deny the world and the people in it the agency to decide whether or not we should accept his bad things. Surveys show that most Americans would like to pause AI; opposition to AI datacenters is a factor in many races in the midterm elections. People are outraged and anxious about what tech hath wrought, mad enough to fight back in what is coming to seem like a human v machine battle. I've been a fan of the film Terminator 2 forever, the one where a badass female protagonist leads the action-movie-style spectacular destruction of Skynet, the massive computer system that will otherwise go rogue and pit itself and a plethora of advanced weapons against the human race.

Anthropic says it will commit 5% of its shares to'public benefit fund' Artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic says it will commit 5% of its shares to a fund that will make donations for the public good. The announcement comes as Anthropic lays the ground for a potential blockbuster stock market listing that could value the firm at more than $1tn (£750bn). The AI industry has come under intense scrutiny recently over safety concerns and fears about its impact on society and the economy. Anthropic reportedly said in its initial public offering (IPO) filing that AI could pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity. Anthropic said its proposed fund could support nonprofit organisations, and efforts to address AI's impact on the jobs market.

Americans can rest easy - for the moment, at least. The fine folks at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have thwarted a major national security threat . On October 9, the FBI arrested 35-year-old engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi citizen employed at the California-based artificial intelligence company OpenAI, the maker of the chatbot ChatGPT, and a firm that describes its mission as ensuring that "artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity". A press release from the United States Department of Justice said that Alfozan was accused of installing a "surreptitious audio recording device" in an executive conference room at the OpenAI offices in San Francisco. The statement quoted Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton's assessment that "this serious situation underscores why winning the global super intelligence race is a national security prerogative".

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The author of says his book "was written by a very tired, overworked, under-slept human being." For most people, the AI Era we're now living in started sometime around the end of 2022, when OpenAI released the first consumer version of ChatGPT to much fanfare--and, ultimately, over 100 million downloads within a few short months. In reality, as WIRED readers know, the story of artificial intelligence stretches back decades. And the work informing today's generative AI products, from chatbots to agents and beyond, has been more than a decade--of blood, sweat, tears, and furious rivalries--in the making. It's that recent history, told through the interweaving stories of three generative AI leaders-- OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google --that's chronicled in Kevin Roose's compelling new book, . Roose, a longtime tech journalist who most recently served as a columnist and podcast host for The New York Times, conducted more than 150 interviews with AI insiders to compile what he hopes becomes something of a historical document, an accurate, in-depth retelling of the people and the institutions, the bloodbath and the drama, that brought Silicon Valley to where it is to today. I spoke to Roose in late September, a few days after he and Casey Newton--with whom Roose previously cohosted the New York Times' podcast--announced the creation of their new media company Machine Gods Media, alongside a podcast distribution deal with NPR. We talked about what Roose and Newton hope to accomplish with the new show, why traditional media companies have a talent problem, and, of course, all things artificial intelligence. KATIE DRUMMOND: You and Casey Newton recently announced that you were launching a new media company, called Machine Gods Media. And your podcast is also called, correct? Yeah, a name so nice we used it twice. When you first announced that you'd be leaving The New York Times, you described your vision for what you wanted to do as one that, quote, "takes AI progress seriously, is clear-eyed about the capabilities and risks of powerful AI systems, and tries to empower and entertain people in the face of radical uncertainty." As you look at the landscape of tech coverage and AI coverage, what's missing from the reporting and commentary that you and Casey want to address with the new show?

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