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🛡️ AI Safety & Alignment

AI safety research, alignment techniques, interpretability, governance, and existential risk discussions.

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Importance:Researchinterpretability

When AI Transparency Backfires

New research shows that AI and machine learning models can be made to look fair and neutral in their interpretability outputs while continuing to produce... Source: knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu

Importance:LaunchAI safety governance

Common Sense Media launches Youth AI Safety Institute to test AI risks for children

Common Sense Media launched the Youth AI Safety Institute to independently test AI tools, publish consumer guides, and set safety standards that protect... Source: mezha.net

Importance:NewsAI safety testing

Child safety lab launching ‘independent crash testing’ for AI tools

By Clare Duffy, CNN. New York — Since independent vehicle crash testing began in the mid-1990s, automakers have been incentivized to make safety changes... Source: eastbaytimes.com

Importance:NewsAI policy / governance

Trump goes ‘woke’ with a sudden change of mind

Until Anthropic's Mythos model triggered alarm bells, the Trump administration labelled efforts to put guardrails around artificial intelligence as “woke. Source: smh.com.au

Importance:Newsgovernance/AGI risk

Elon Musk’s only AI expert witness at the OpenAI trial fears an AGI arms race

Stuart Russell is a long-time AI researcher who thinks governments need to restrain frontier labs. Source: techcrunch.com

Importance:Newsgovernance/existential risk

Bernie Sanders says AI extinction risk demands global cooperation after Kevin O'Leary calls China inclusion threat: 'This isn't about competition'

On Monday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called for international cooperation on artificial intelligence safety, arguing that existential AI risks outweigh... Source: msn.com

Importance:NewsAI backlash/societal risk

Violent Threats and Data Center Resistance Accelerate

Online surveying of anti-AI content shows a growing frustration with perceived corporate and governmental indifference to AI's consequences for human life... Source: thesoufancenter.org

Importance:Newsexistential risk/OpenAI trial

Elon Musk Warns AI Could Kill Humanity

Elon Musk testified at the federal trial in Oakland against OpenAI, telling jurors that artificial intelligence "could kill us all," according to reporting... Source: letsdatascience.com

Importance:Newsgovernance/existential risk

Bernie Sanders Says AI Extinction Risk Demands Global Cooperation After Kevin O'Leary Calls China Inclusi

On Monday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called for international cooperation on artificial intelligence safety, arguing that existential AI risks outweigh... Source: benzinga.com

Importance:Newsexistential risk discourse

Nvidia CEO Huang Pushes Back Against AI Alarmism, Warns Tech Leaders Against ‘God Complex’ Predictions

Jensen Huang is mounting one of the strongest pushbacks yet against the increasingly alarmist rhetoric surrounding artificial intelligence, warning that... Source: tekedia.com

Importance:Newsexistential risk / OpenAI governance

Elon Musk says OpenAI abandoned ‘charity’ mission: Key takeaways from testimony

Elon Musk spent hours on the stand arguing that OpenAI strayed from its nonprofit roots, while defending his own AI ambitions and warning of existential... Source: indianexpress.com

Importance:VideoAI safety leadership perspectives

Demis Hassabis on AI Safety and Future

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis discusses AI safety, AGI, and the future of scientific discovery with Lex Fridman. Source: startuphub.ai

Importance:Newsexistential risk debate

Jensen Huang says AI doom warnings reflect a God complex and the business consequences of that argument matter more than the debate itself

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has publicly criticized existential AI risk warnings from leaders including Anthropic's Dario Amodei, arguing that apocalyptic. Source: startupfortune.com

Importance:NewsAI governance/policy

THE TIPPING POINT IS HERE: NINE-IN-TEN U.S. POLICY INSIDERS SAY AI MUST BE REGULATED -- AND GOVERNMENTS ARE FALLING SHORT

New Povaddo survey of 301 U.S. and European public policy experts reveals widespread alarm over AI governance gaps, labor market disruption, and the risk of... Source: prnewswire.com

Importance:NewsAI governance/legal

Elon Musk Testifies in OpenAI Trial, Raises AI Safety Concerns

Oakland: Elon Musk testified for over seven hours across three days in a trial in Oakland, California, concerning OpenAI's future, framing his lawsuit as a... Source: newsmobile.in

Importance:Newsexistential risk/public reaction

'Close to midnight': Alleged Sam Altman firebomber wrote of fears AI would end humanity

The man accused of attempting to burn down the OpenAI CEO's home appears to have written about his worry that the race for artificial intelligence would... Source: msn.com

Importance:PolicyAI regulation/existential risk

Lawmakers And AI Makers Tussle Over Crafting New Laws Covering Intentionality And Recklessness On AI Existential Risks

Lawmakers and AI makers are battling over the wording of new AI laws. The crux is responsibility and accountability. An AI Insider analysis and scoop. Source: forbes.com

Importance:NewsAI governance/military

Pentagon expands classified AI work with major tech companies

The Pentagon said it reached deals with seven major technology companies to bring advanced artificial intelligence into classified military operations. Source: nbcrightnow.com

Importance:Opinionexistential risk

AI Safety Expert Warns of Existential Risks

AI safety expert Dr. Eleanor Vance warns of existential risks from rapidly advancing AI, urging global cooperation and robust governance. Source: startuphub.ai

Importance:NewsAI governance/existential risk

Bernie Sanders urges international cooperation to halt AI’s ‘runaway train’

US senator holds panel with leading Chinese scientists and warns of risks to society unless new technology is regulated. Source: theguardian.com