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AI researcher, formerly chief scientist at the UK AI Security Institute and before that a researcher at Google DeepMind.
Daniel Kokotajlo, who quit OpenAI over safety concerns, told MPs on Tuesday that the industry's risk tolerance is 'catastrophically high'. Two more ex-lab researchers gave similar warnings as MPs test whether the firms can regulate themselves.
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Kanishka Narayan, the UK's AI minister, will say technology companies cannot be left entirely to police their own models, the Guardian reported. He will announce stronger cyber defences in the same speech, the first on AI since Andy Burnham took the brief into cabinet.
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Researchers say AI companies have at least twice in five weeks reached answers to questions they had long been working on, Nature reported. Some now limit their AI use, though one AI-safety scientist expects models to keep getting there first with or without uploaded manuscripts.
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OpenAI and DeepMind researchers warned in videos given to Reuters that labs are rushing self-improving AI, one putting the odds of extinction at 10% or higher. Their own chief executives already back a slowdown in public, so the testimony mostly weakens the labs' claim that they can slow down only if everyone does.
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Four AI lab leaders have voiced support for some kind of pause, and the report's coauthor says nobody yet knows what the enforcement options are. The only pace figures published this week came from Anthropic, about Anthropic.
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