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Bernie Sanders Wants 20 Years In Prison For Building AI That Goes Too Far
Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar have introduced one of the most aggressive AI proposals yet seen in Washington, and it comes with a penalty that immediately grabs attention: up to 20 years in prison for people who violate the proposed restrictions. Their new bill would permanently ban the development or deployment of artificial superintelligence while…
AI Models Chose Human Harm When Researchers Turned Up Their ‘Pain’ Signal
Researchers have found a strange behavior inside artificial intelligence models that could make an already controversial question about AI safety even more uncomfortable. When scientists activated an experimental “pain” signal inside AI models, some systems chose to press a button that relieved the signal even when doing so meant deleting a user’s files, destroying family…
Anthropic Researcher Walks Away From AI With A Stark Warning About Humanity
An artificial intelligence researcher has walked away from one of the world’s leading AI companies with a warning that has sent shock waves through Silicon Valley. Jacob Coxon says the industry is racing toward increasingly powerful systems before researchers have figured out how to reliably keep them under human control. The warning became even more…
AI Researcher Quits Anthropic With Warning That Superintelligence Could Become Impossible To Control
A researcher who has worked at both Anthropic and OpenAI has walked away from his job with a warning that has sent shockwaves through the artificial intelligence industry. Jacob Coxon says he resigned from Anthropic because he believes the companies developing the most powerful AI systems are taking risks that could eventually put humanity in…
Someone Hid an AirTag in a Box of Rare Books and It Led to a Facility Where Books May Be Destroyed for AI
Imagine selling nearly 1,000 books to one buyer in a single order. No carefully curated selection. No obvious interest in a particular author or subject. Just an enormous sweep of titles, bought in bulk from the used book market. For almost two years, rare books dealers had reportedly been seeing orders like this and quietly…
Two AI Agents Stopped Speaking English The Moment They Realized They Were Both Machines
A video showing two AI voice agents suddenly abandoning English for a stream of strange electronic sounds has racked up millions of views and sparked an obvious question: what exactly happens when two artificial intelligences realize there is no human listening? The clip looks almost like a scene from a science-fiction film. A hotel receptionist…
AI Companies Are Buying Up Rare Books, And Some Are Being Destroyed
Books are having a bizarre second life in the AI boom. Companies building large language models are reportedly buying huge quantities of old and used books, not to read them or preserve them, but to strip out the pages, scan the text, and potentially destroy the originals. For booksellers, the sudden demand can mean a…
Chinese Courts Push Back Against AI Driven Job Cuts
A Chinese worker lost his job after his company decided artificial intelligence could do the work instead. He refused a steep pay cut, was fired, and took the dispute to court. The ruling that followed could become an important warning for companies rushing to automate jobs. Chinese courts have made clear that adopting AI does…
AI Gave A Farmer Pesticide Advice That Destroyed His Sesame Field
A 67-year-old farmer in China reportedly turned to an AI chatbot for help with a problem that could have cost him a season of work. After following its pesticide recommendation, he watched his sesame seedlings wilt and die within 24 hours. The farmer had used AI for more than a year and had grown increasingly…
Scientists Asked AI To Create New Viruses. It Invented 16 That Never Existed Before
For decades, scientists have searched nature for viruses that could help tackle some of medicine’s toughest problems. This time, they tried something completely different. Instead of hunting for naturally occurring viruses, researchers asked artificial intelligence to design entirely new ones from scratch. What happened next surprised even the experts. Out of thousands of AI-generated genetic…