Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Look Up Creator Playbook Mashable Selects In My Bag Say More AI at School Safety Net Versus Trending Now Back to School All Series Who are we expecting to save us from AI? An industry consumed with profit and a government hobbled by firings does not offer much reassurance. President Trump met with tech leaders, including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, on Wednesday. On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that Meta has been treating its AI data centers as experimental facilities to claim billions of dollars in federal research tax credits, a strategy the company's own accountants reportedly flagged as legally risky. The savings reportedly grew from $700 million in 2023 to $3.9 billion in 2025.

Euan Blair co-founded Multiverse, which supplies AI and digital skills training to workers in the NHS, local councils, universities and the private sector. Euan Blair co-founded Multiverse, which supplies AI and digital skills training to workers in the NHS, local councils, universities and the private sector. Teachers at Euan Blair firm report'horrendous stress' after AI used to rate their work Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at'remorseless' and'unnerving' monitoring system Teachers at Euan Blair's £1.6bn tech training company, Multiverse, have blown the whistle about "horrendous stress" and feeling constantly watched after bosses started using AI models to surveil and rate their teaching. Staff delivering apprenticeship training in computer and AI skills to thousands of UK public and private sector workers now have transcripts of online classroom sessions analysed and scored by an AI programmed to alert human managers when they are suspected of doing things wrong. The AI is trained to flag problems in their performance ranging from not fixing a disruption to the online connection quickly enough - within about a minute - to using too many "filler" phrases, such as "sort of" and "kind of".

Neurosurgeon recounts a'a miracle of biology' 'He had no business surviving. His survival was a triumph.' 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. Neurosurgeons often perform complex work under intense pressure. The following excerpt from by Dr. Barbara Lazio has been run with permission Was This the Life You Wanted Saved?

OpenAI boss says world'right to be afraid' but'should trust' AI firms Image caption, OpenAI has been a leader in the current AI era. OpenAI boss Sam Altman thinks people should have more faith in his company and others like it to do the right thing when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) development amid rising public concerns about all the risks. The world should trust that we are going to do the right thing because it's the right thing and we feel the magnitude of this, Altman said on Tuesday during a conference in San Francisco. However, Altman noted that people were justified in their fears around AI, as the capability of the tools has progressed rapidly. It doesn't take as much imagination as it used to for [us] to imagine how this could go wrong, he said.

'No one is irreplaceable', says BBC chief after scandals BBC director general Tim Davie has said he is not letting anything lie when it comes to rooting out abuses of power within the corporation. If you're not living the values, it is clear you leave the BBC or there are consequences, he told MPs on Tuesday, adding that no one was irreplaceable. Davie is facing questions from the Culture, Media and Sport Committee on a number of scandals. One of the topics discussed was the MasterChef crisis, after both of its presenters - Gregg Wallace and John Torode - were sacked following a report which upheld allegations against them. During the hearing, Davie discussed some of the changes that have been made to how abuses of power are dealt with following a recent review into the BBC's workplace culture.

Barring an asteroid strike, Keir Starmer is going to be the UK prime minister in three days. Given the lead in polling, I'd probably bet on him over an asteroid, too. Labour will come into government with a broken state, a flatlining economy and no money. A thin manifesto and enormous parliamentary majority means the party will almost certainly end up stretching further afield for ideas about how to deal with that trilemma from hell. So let's try and offer some.

The ascension of an insider CEO can be a bit underwhelming. When Satya Nadella took the helm of Microsoft in 2014, some employees and investors were disappointed. The search committee had spent months sifting through more than 100 potential leaders, looking for someone who could revive the spirit of innovation that had once defined the company. Along the way, some Wall Street analysts interpreted the fact that no clear external candidate was emerging to indicate that "Microsoft couldn't attract an appealing CEO after years of dwindling relevance," the Wall Street Journal reported. And then, on a frigid January day, they got a 22-year Microsoft veteran as CEO.

Is it possible to evaluate the moral cognition of complex artificial agents? In this work, we take a look at one aspect of morality: `doing the right thing for the right reasons.' We propose a behavior-based analysis of artificial moral cognition which could also be applied to humans to facilitate like-for-like comparison. Morally-motivated behavior should persist despite mounting cost; by measuring an agent's sensitivity to this cost, we gain deeper insight into underlying motivations. We apply this evaluation to a particular set of deep reinforcement learning agents, trained by memory-based meta-reinforcement learning. Our results indicate that agents trained with a reward function that includes other-regarding preferences perform helping behavior in a way that is less sensitive to increasing cost than agents trained with more self-interested preferences.

This week, over 1,750 academics, engineers and some notable names in the tech space signed an open letter asking for all Artificial Intelligence (AI) labs to "immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4". We discuss the issue from a few perspectives. Early this week, tech news platforms were abuzz about an open letter that had been signed by engineers from big tech companies, such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, and by well-known tech leaders including Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak, along with more than 1,000 experts, petitioning for a pause in "Giant AI Experiments". In the letter, which was authored by the think tank the Future of Life Institute, concern was expressed that though currently, there is an intense race to develop even more powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems "…that no one – not even their creators – can understand, predict, or reliably control…", the focus on exploring the risks and developing the attendant guidelines, protocols and systems to manage those risks, are considerably under-developed. In response to the perceived situation, the letter's authors are advocating for a pause in AI development for at least six months: Therefore, we call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.

Jacob Browning is a postdoc in NYU's Computer Science Department working on the philosophy of AI. Yann LeCun is a Turing Award-winning machine learning researcher, an NYU professor and the chief AI scientist at Meta. With artificial intelligence now powering Microsoft's Bing and Google's Bard search engines, brilliant and clever conversational AI is at our fingertips. But there have been many uncanny moments -- including casually delivered disturbing comments like calling a reporter ugly, declaring love for strangers or rattling off plans for taking over the world. To make sense of these bizarre moments, it's helpful to start by thinking about the phenomenon of saying the wrong thing.