It's especially timely especially as more online content and ads use AI avatars, fake product demonstrators, fake political supporters, etc. It was just a brief mention, but this week's edition also has a bunch of other recent AI policy news: https://
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AI avatars and fake content concerns highlighted in policy newsletter
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New NY state law mandates disclosure of AI-generated synthetic performers
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PSA: As we mentioned in Monday's @BigTechnology newsletter, a new NY state law went into effect yesterday requiring ads disclose when they feature AI-generated humans (aka "synthetic performers.")
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New Observer series on catastrophic AI risks with Bengio, Marcus
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New series from The Observer with @Yoshua_Bengio
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Anger over access cut for AI creators and denounced manipulation
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I think people are more angry about the access cut for the millions of AI creators who do not come from competing frontier labs & the manipulation part that they have denounced from the beginning.
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Risks of rushing toward super-AI: generation, jobs, democracy
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@dr_l_alexandre wants to rush toward super-AI. Me, I have time and that's why I measure the risk. 25 years: I have time to see what the rush hides: a precarious generation, liquidated jobs, and a democracy that hasn't digested the rupture. Who decides
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Anthropic’s Fable 5 creates Eurocrat-as-a-Service product
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With Fable 5 Anthropic managed to create a Eurocrat-as-a-Service product.
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Companies should want to slow down AI to achieve their goals
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Companies that claim to want to slow down the development of cutting-edge AI should not need compliance – they should be eager to do so because it achieves their stated goals.
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Voluntary coherence in slowing down AI
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Companies that claim to want to slow down the development of cutting-edge AI should not need compliance—they should be eager to do so because it achieves their stated goals.
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Slowing frontier AI requires avoiding perverse incentives
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If your goal is to slow down frontier AI development, then you don't want create that incentive.
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Slow down AI self-improvement: access for all except the best
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Simple solution to slow down recursive AI self-improvement: – The lab with the top-ranked model must accept that THEY should not use it to work on cutting-edge AI – But everyone else should have access to it. By definition, this