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If you get FOMO about AI news (or if, heaven forbid, you're bored), why not click through to our snappy weekly summary?
From Trump wanting a government equity stake in AI to policy frameworks for the robo-apocalypse, it's all very interesting stuff.
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In general, OpenAI could be a *bit* more straightforward about their relationship with Leading the Future.
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Jun 10
If you're the sort who's stimulated by new, strange and counterintuitive ideas, you might enjoy the (surprisingly convincing and in-depth) case for making deals with AI:
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Only a few years ago, "negotiating with robots for the safety of humanity" might have sounded like the pastime of a lunatic.
But now look where we are!
Here's the strange case for making deals with AI:
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Hey look, it's the Transformer newsletter. Why not have a quick scroll of all this week's vital AI news?
AI safety is suddenly being taken more seriously than ever. Which is either comforting or very frightening, depending on your perspective.
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The most important AI news; the most interesting articles about AI news; and even the most worthwhile posts on AI. We literally have it all.
Have a little browse of the Transformer weekly newsletter, it's pretty interesting:
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Democrat Mallory McMorrow has noticed that the sort of anxieties that have been concerning AI watchers for a while now — from AI job displacement to AI just killing everybody — are increasingly keeping the general population up at night too.
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On the very first day of his second term, President Trump revoked Biden’s AI executive order, which required AI companies to disclose details of their internal safety testing.
It says a hell of a lot that he's changing course. So what gives?
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It wasn't very long ago at all that JD Vance and Ted Cruz were happy to mockingly dismiss AI safety and regulation.
But since Trump's decided to take it seriously, they'll have to take it seriously too.
So what's led Trump to this surprising point?
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May 28
In our ongoing coverage of how AI money's moving in American political scene: is AI safety’s ‘hard money’ its secret weapon in the midterms?
Let us explain:
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May 28
(By the way, if you're interested in where AI money's moving in the midterms, might we recommend again that you have a little look at our AI campaign finance tracker?) elections.transformernews.ai…
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May 25
AI is taking over such jobs as beating Pokemon Red, winning at least one short story competition, and creating ironicaly fake quotes for a book about AI's effect on truth.
Keep up with everything else in AI this week via our delightful newsletter:
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May 25
Just in case it's handy, you can keep up with the rapidly moving and terrifyingly unknowable bleeding edge/jagged frontier of AI with our newsletter (e.g. here's some some pretty interesting/unnerving stuff from this week's).
Why not have a look?
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May 24
Our writer Celia Ford reports from the AI safety conference ControlConf, where a peculiar roleplaying game elucidated some quite important, surprising and frightening ideas around AI alignment v. AI control...
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May 23
Just three hours before Trump was set to sign an executive order that would've established pre-deployment evaluations for frontier AI models, he pulled the plug.
This isn't really an ideal way to run things if you take AI at all seriously.
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May 22
If you happened to be wondering how to beat a tech giant that wants to build a data centre in your area (and you have a particularly good reason to), a retired tech exec seems to have figured out the trick...
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May 21
One of our intrepid writers recently larped as a rogue AI at an AI control conference — and learned a surprising amount about the limits of AI control.
If you're curious about something strange and frightening about the near-future, click through here:
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May 16
It might be worth taking a step back from the story we've been given about the great US-China AI race and ask if it's actually true — and if it's not, who exactly this story serves, and if we might be able to tell a better one.
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May 15
China doesn't seem to be in the same race to a existentially-risky superintelligence that the US thinks it's in — and the idea it is might make that existential risk all the existentially riskier (for all of our existences).
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