Tag Archives: AI safety

“Catastrophic” AI harms among warnings in declaration signed by 28 nations

Enlarge / UK Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan (front row center) is joined by international counterparts for a group photo at the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, on November 1, 2023. reader comments 101 with On Wednesday, the UK hosted an AI Safety Summit attended by 28 countries, including the US… Read More »

Biden issues sweeping executive order that touches AI risk, deepfakes, privacy

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 53 with On Monday, President Joe Biden issued an executive order on AI that outlines the federal government’s first comprehensive regulations on generative AI systems. The order includes testing mandates for advanced AI models to ensure they can’t be used for creating weapons, suggestions for watermarking AI-generated media,… Read More »

AI-powered grocery bot suggests recipe for toxic gas, “poison bread sandwich”

reader comments 123 with When given a list of harmful ingredients, an AI-powered recipe suggestion bot called the Savey Meal-Bot returned ridiculously titled dangerous recipe suggestions, reports The Guardian. The bot is a product of the New Zealand-based PAK’nSAVE grocery chain and uses the OpenAI GPT-3.5 language model to craft its recipes. PAK’nSAVE intended the… Read More »

EU votes to ban AI in biometric surveillance, require disclosure from AI systems

Enlarge / The EU flag in front of an AI-generated background. EU / Stable Diffusion reader comments 47 with On Wednesday, European Union officials voted to implement stricter proposed regulations concerning AI, according to Reuters. The updated draft of the “AI Act” law includes a ban on the use of AI in biometric surveillance and… Read More »

Air Force denies running simulation where AI drone “killed” its operator

Enlarge / An armed unmanned aerial vehicle on runway, but orange. Getty Images reader comments 85 with Over the past 24 hours, several news outlets reported a now-retracted story claiming that the US Air Force had run a simulation in which an AI-controlled drone “went rogue” and “killed the operator because that person was keeping… Read More »

OpenAI execs warn of “risk of extinction” from artificial intelligence in new open letter

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of “AI taking over the world.” Stable Diffusion reader comments 121 with On Tuesday, the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) released a single-sentence statement signed by executives from OpenAI and DeepMind, Turing Award winners, and other AI researchers warning that their life’s work could potentially extinguish all of humanity. The… Read More »

Among AI dangers, deepfakes worry Microsoft president most

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a “wall of fake images.” Stable Diffusion reader comments 27 with On Thursday, Microsoft President Brad Smith announced that his biggest apprehension about AI revolves around the growing concern for deepfakes and synthetic media designed to deceive, Reuters reports. Smith made his remarks while revealing his “blueprint for public… Read More »

Fake Pentagon “explosion” photo sows confusion on Twitter

Enlarge / A fake AI-generated image of an “explosion” near the Pentagon that went viral on Twitter. reader comments 49 with On Monday, a tweeted AI-generated image suggesting a large explosion at the Pentagon led to brief confusion, which included a reported small drop in the stock market. It originated from a verified Twitter account… Read More »

Poll: 61% of Americans say AI threatens humanity’s future

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of “real space invaders” threatening the earth. Midjourney reader comments 129 with A majority of Americans believe that the rise of artificial intelligence technology could put humanity’s future in jeopardy, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll published on Wednesday. The poll found that over two-thirds of respondents are anxious about the… Read More »

Warning of AI’s danger, pioneer Geoffrey Hinton quits Google to speak freely

Enlarge / Geoffrey Hinton, chief scientific adviser at the Vector Institute, speaks during The International Economic Forum of the Americas (IEFA) Toronto Global Forum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. Getty Images / Benj Edwards reader comments 6 with According to the New York Times, AI pioneer Dr. Geoffrey Hinton has resigned… Read More »