'Careless use of AI is the real threat - not the ghost stories' Image caption, Meredith Whittaker believes science doesn't support the idea that AI will turn against humans Warning: This article contains strong language. Meredith Whittaker has little patience for the AI doom that dominates headlines - she thinks warnings of AI turning on humanity is a fear not anchored in science. The risk is very real, says the boss of the Signal Foundation, which runs the encrypted messaging app of the same name, but it's not the shiny ghost stories the wild-eyed boys are talking about. Instead, she believes the more immediate danger is the technology being used carelessly. She cites an alleged incident, reported by CNN, in which a chatbot used by US intelligence invented information about a Chinese vessel carrying nuclear material, reportedly leading the US to prepare a military response.

A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI's Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI's general counsel. Following billionaire Elon Musk's departure from the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in late spring 2025, several of the group's members found a new home within the federal government: the National Design Studio . Led by Joe Gebbia, a cofounder of Airbnb, a former member of DOGE, and currently the chief design officer of the US, the NDS is nested in the Executive Office of the President and has been tasked with redesigning government websites and services. As with DOGE before it, who exactly is a part of NDS--and what they're working on--often remains opaque.

Image caption, Jupp is a former deputy editor of BBC Two's Newsnight and has also served as Panorama's editor Rachel Jupp has been appointed the new director of BBC News, nearly a year after the previous CEO resigned. Deborah Turness announced last November that she would step down from the role following the fallout over how Panorama edited a speech by President Trump. Jupp is a former deputy editor of BBC Two's Newsnight and has also served as Panorama's editor, but left several years before the controversial Trump episode aired. Jupp said she was honoured to be asked to lead BBC News, while the corporation's director-general Matt Brittin described her as an outstanding editorial leader. The appointment comes as the BBC continues to make sweeping cuts to its news division.

The job interview question you don't have to answer To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Figure caption, Watch: How much is your salary? Prepare all you like, but there is often still one job interview question that leaves you feeling uncomfortable. While employers in the UK are within their rights to ask you how much you get paid in your current role, applicants are not obliged to tell them. Recruiters have been encouraged to stop posing questions about salary history and, in the EU, new rules will prevent them doing so.

Hannah and Max have always split their money equally even when one has earned considerably more than the other. We've always wanted to do things 50/50, Max, 31, says. We made a commitment to each other that what's mine is yours, and vice versa. The couple got married after two years together, when Max was earning £70,000 a year working in tech, and Hannah, who works in the charity sector, was earning considerably less. Their salaries go into a joint account and their mortgage, bills, food, petrol and other household costs are paid out of this.

We study the problem of learning a real-valued function that satisfies the Demographic Parity constraint. It demands the distribution of the predicted output to be independent of the sensitive attribute. We consider the case that the sensitive attribute is available for prediction.

The Industry I Offered to Take Less Money to Get Hired. In a rough hiring market, a growing number of younger, female job seekers have begun "lowballing" their salary expectations. I know this because I did it myself. If it feels impossible to get hired in today's job market, it's because it is. Greenhouse, a hiring software firm, estimates that when someone applies for a job, they now have a 0.4 percent chance of being hired--meaning you have a better chance of getting into Harvard than securing employment.

'You'll jump into the deep end pretty much immediately,' Altman said while announcing the vacancy. 'You'll jump into the deep end pretty much immediately,' Altman said while announcing the vacancy. 'This will be a stressful job': Sam Altman offers $555k salary to fill most daunting role in AI New head of preparedness at OpenAI will face unnerving in-tray amid fears from some experts that AI could'turn on us' Mon 29 Dec 2025 09.44 ESTLast modified on Mon 29 Dec 2025 10.10 EST The maker of ChatGPT has advertised a $555,000-a-year vacancy with a daunting job description that would cause Superman to take a sharp intake of breath. In what may be close to the impossible job, the "head of preparedness" at OpenAI will be directly responsible for defending against risks from ever more powerful AIs to human mental health, cybersecurity and biological weapons. That is before the successful candidate has to start worrying about the possibility that AIs may soon begin training themselves amid fears from some experts they could "turn against us". "This will be a stressful job, and you'll jump into the deep end pretty much immediately," said Sam Altman, the chief executive of the San Francisco-based organisation, as he launched the hunt to fill "a critical role" to "help the world".