For the first time in tech invention, we're taking the precautionary principle. Thinking ahead of time about potential downsides, talking about them publicly, and trying to mitigate them. This is new, and it's essential for building a better future. https://
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Tech Takes Precautionary Approach to AI: Addressing Risks Proactively
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Leading Mathematicians and Computer Scientists Petition for Kidnapped Children
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Petition "freedom for kidnapped children"
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OpenAI’s bug bounty excludes model output issues
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Problem is you can't patch models, so it's less of a bounty thing — OpenAI's bug bounty program (emphatically) excludes all issues with model output: https://
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OpenAI Launches AGI Preparedness Team Led by Madry
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Preparedness team, led by @aleks_madry
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AI as Solution for Social Media Content Moderation and Safety
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When people talk about issues with social networks, they don't realize that AI is not the cause, AI is actually an essential piece of the solution. To take down propaganda, hate speech, attacks on democracy, child exploitation, calls to violence, dangerous misinformation, etc in
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Advisory Board Composition Raises Corporate Interest Concerns
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That's great news — reading through the list of advisors, I'm pleasantly surprised to discover it's not entirely stacked with corporate special interests. (Although there are still quite a large bunch of them…)
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UN Appoints AI Governance Advisory Body Members
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Congrats to HAI Int’l Policy Fellow @MarietjeSchaake and advisory council members @vilasdhar & James Manyika for being named to the @UN Advisory Body on AI! Together with gov’t, private sector & civil society, they will help guide global governance of AI. https://
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MLCommons develops standard AI safety benchmarks for researchers
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Today on the blog, learn how we’re supporting a new effort by the non-profit MLCommons Association that aims to bring together expert researchers across academia and industry to develop standard AI safety benchmarks that everyone can use and understand. ↓
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Supreme Court faces AI liability questions, scholars urge action
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The Supreme Court will soon face questions of liability for harmful outputs from generative AI. Stanford legal scholars urge policymakers to get ahead of the storm.
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New AI Preparedness Team Evaluates AGI Risks Quantitatively
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We are building a new Preparedness team to evaluate, forecast, and protect against the risks of highly-capable AI—from today's models to AGI. Goal: a quantitative, evidence-based methodology, beyond what is accepted as possible: