YouGov: 87% of Britons would back a law requiring developers to prove their AI tools are safe before release and 60% support banning “smarter-than-human” models
Billy Perrigo / Time : Forums: r/ControlProblem , r/artificial , r/OpenAI , r/ukpolitics , r/technology , r/LabourUK , and r/unitedkingdom Forums: r/ControlProblem : Brits Want to Ban ‘Smarter Than H...
Letter and sources: nearly 200 Google DeepMind workers, or 5% of its overall headcount, signed a letter dated May 16 calling to drop its military contracts
Nearly 200 workers inside Google DeepMind, the company's AI division, signed a letter calling on the tech giant to drop its contracts … X: @billyperrigo and @verambergen X: Billy Perrigo / @billyperri...
A profile of Anthropic and its CEO Dario Amodei; the startup prioritizes AI safety over profit, hoping to spark a “race to the top” on safety in the AI industry
In the summer of 2022, Dario Amodei had a difficult decision to make. Anthropic, the AI company where he is co-founder and CEO … X: @billyperrigo X: Billy Perrigo / @billyperrigo : My latest TIME cov...
Google's Jigsaw expands Perspective API, a set of ML tools that help moderators and researchers identify toxicity, with seven attributes, including nuance
Billy Perrigo / TIME : X: @mer__edith , @prestonjbyrne , @jigsaw , @billyperrigo , @jigsaw , and @jigsaw . LinkedIn: Reza Ghazinouri See also Mediagazer X: Meredith Whittaker / @mer__edith : TLDR: to...
Signal's president says the TikTok bill won't offer any meaningful privacy protection from China, but will further entrench the dominance of US social networks
Earlier this month, the United States House of Representatives passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act … Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @olaf@social.secr...
A look at OpenAI's “Democratic Inputs to AI” grant program, which awarded 10 teams $100K each to design ideas and tools to collectively govern AI systems
Billy Perrigo / TIME : X: @time , @lopezunwired , and @billyperrigo LinkedIn: Teddy Lee and Laura MacCleery X: @time : The company wants to align its AI to “human values.” Is that even possible? http...
Interviews with Sam Altman and 20+ people in his circle reveal a complicated portrait of being brilliant but slippery, as Time names him CEO of the Year 2023
It was a strange Thanksgiving for Sam Altman. Normally, the CEO of OpenAI flies home to St. Louis to visit family. X: @kristileilani , @samraskinz , @aaltman82 , @billyperrigo , and @annmarie X: Kris...
Sources: at Foxconn's Sriperumbudur factory, key to Apple's pivot to India, issues persist, like disciplinary wage docking and poorer conditions for contractors
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A look at Indian nonprofit Karya, which sells AI training data and redirects all the profit to its workers, who retain ownership of the data they create
I hope Karya's team keep the balance as they grow in the business world! — https://time.com/... #aiethics #aifairness — [images] Bluesky: Margaret Mitchell / @mmitchell.bsky.social : Really beaut...
A look at Indian nonprofit Karya, which sells AI training data and redirects all the profit to its workers, who retain ownership of the data they create
In the shade of a coconut palm, Chandrika tilts her smartphone screen to avoid the sun's glare. It is early morning in Alahalli village … Mastodon: @OmaymaS@dair-community.social . Bluesky: @mmitchel...