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:
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Commercial pressures shape algorithm design choices
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“Sort by engagement” is a choice to make your life worse and I wish we did not feel such strong commercial pressures to default users to it.
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AI Event at the White House: Executive Order and Censorship
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An event titled "Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence" will be hosted by the White House on October 30. There will reportedly be a ‘sweeping’ AI executive order that day. Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence is synonymous with censorship. Proceed with caution.
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Will larger language models eventually enable critical infrastructure attacks?
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Imagine this prompt: "write me Python code to disable the NYC subway system" obviously gpt-4 can't do this now. It'll refuse, but even if we jailbreak it, it'll answer incorrectly but if we keep training bigger & better language models, won't one eventually be able to do this?
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MLCommons launches AI Safety working group with HELM framework
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An exciting step toward responsible AI: @MLCommons just announced the creation of the AI Safety working group which will focus on developing safety benchmarks for LLMs using the groundbreaking HELM framework from @StanfordCRFM
. Congrats @percyliang & team! https://
mlcommons.org/en/news/format
ion-ai-safety-working-group/
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AI Adoption Gap Between Large European Businesses and SMEs
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Artificial Intelligence is spreading rapidly among European companies. As with cloud computing, its use was more common in large businesses (28%) than in SMEs (7%). Read more > https://
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BSI Study: Global Mistrust towards AI and French Concerns
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International BSI Study: "The World, France and AI, between Mistrust and Questions" https://actuia.com/actualite/etude-internationale-bsi-le-monde-la-france-et-lia-entre-mefiance-et-interrogations/
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Privacy-Focused AI Player Faces Challenging Path to Results
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Yeah, glad we have a player focused on privacy. Just a much harder path to results
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Partnership on AI publishes foundation models safety guidelines
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On This Day 6 years ago: the first general meeting of the Partnership on AI took place in Berlin. PAI funds studies and publishes guidelines on questions of AI ethics and safety.
It just published a set of guidelines for the safe deployment of foundation models: