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This AI Claude 3 Opus, Anthropic's new AI chatbot realized it was being tested

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Top Chinese and Western AI scientists issue joint statement: existential threat from AI requires collaboration similar to the cold war effort to avoid nuclear war
https://www.ft.com/content/375f4e2d-1f7 … b2a173b8cb
“In the depths of the cold war, international scientific and governmental co-ordination helped avert thermonuclear catastrophe. Humanity again needs to co-ordinate to avert a catastrophe that could arise from unprecedented technology,” the statement said.

Signatories include Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, who won a Turing Award for their work on neural networks and are often described as “godfathers” of AI; Stuart Russell, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley; and Andrew Yao, one of China’s most prominent computer scientists.

In Beijing last week, experts discussed threats regarding the development of “artificial general intelligence”, or AI systems that are equal to or superior to humans.

“A core focus of the discussion were the red lines that no powerful AI system should cross and that governments around the world should impose in the development and deployment of AI,” said Bengio.

These red lines relate to increasingly autonomous systems, with the statement saying that “no AI system should be able to copy or improve itself without explicit human approval and assistance” or “take actions to unduly increase its power and influence”.

The scientists added that no systems should “substantially increase the ability of actors to design weapons of mass destruction, violate the biological or chemical weapons convention” or be able to “autonomously execute cyber attacks resulting in serious financial losses or equivalent harm”.

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'Is there a way to stop students using AI to generate essays?'

https://academia.stackexchange.com/ques … ate-essays

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OpenAI holds back public release of tech that can clone someone's voice in 15 seconds due to safety concerns
https://fortune.com/2024/03/29/openai-t … -concerns/
"ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is getting into the voice assistant business and showing off new technology that can clone a person’s voice, but says it won’t yet release it publicly due to safety concerns.
The company claims that it can recreate a person’s voice with just 15 seconds of recording of that person talking.
OpenAI says it plans to preview it with early testers “but not widely release this technology at this time” because of the dangers of misuse.
“We recognize that generating speech that resembles people’s voices has serious risks, which are especially top of mind in an election year,” the San Francisco company said in a statement.
In New Hampshire, authorities are investigating robocalls sent to thousands of voters just before the presidential primary that featured an AI-generated voice mimicking President Joe Biden."

AI Is Making Financial Fraud Easier and More Sophisticated, US Treasury Warns
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles … sury-warns
"Recent advancements in AI mean criminals can more realistically mimic voice or video to impersonate customers at financial institutions and access accounts, the agency wrote.

They also allow bad actors to craft increasingly sophisticated email phishing attacks with better formatting and fewer typos, according to Treasury.

The agency is the latest to sound warnings about AI, which presents risks as well as opportunities. Key financial regulators, including the Federal Reserve, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, have raised concerns about everything from discrimination to potential systemic risk.

The report noted that smaller financial firms, unlike larger companies, have fewer IT resources and less expertise to develop AI systems in-house and often have to rely on third parties. They also have access to less internal data to train AI models to prevent fraud."

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AI and Embedded Technology Create Opportunities for Teachers and Students
https://www.languagemagazine.com/2024/0 … -students/

As AI tools get smarter, they’re growing more covertly racist, experts find
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ … emini-bias

Companies Should Brace Themselves for the AI Talent Wars
https://www.techopedia.com/companies-sh … alent-wars
In some U.S. states, there are 10 job averts for every AI professional.

People liked AI art – when they thought it was made by humans
https://www.sciencenorway.no/art-artifi … ns/2337417

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AI automation to bury civilization in noise
https://www.mindprison.cc/p/ai-automati … vilization

Shadow Games: Questioning America’s Battle Against “Foreign Disinformation” in the Upcoming Election
https://reclaimthenet.org/shadow-games- … g-election

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Nurses Say Hospital Adoption of Half-Cooked 'AI' Is Reckless
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/02/nur … -reckless/
Last week, hundreds of nurses protested the implementation of sloppy AI into hospital systems in front of Kaiser Permanente. Their primary concern: that systems incapable of empathy are being integrated into an already dysfunctional sector without much thought toward patient care: "No computer, no AI can replace a human touch," said Amy Grewal, a registered nurse. "It cannot hold your loved one's hand. You cannot teach a computer how to have empathy."
There are certainly roles automation can play in easing strain on a sector full of burnout after COVID, particularly when it comes to administrative tasks. The concern, as with other industries dominated by executives with poor judgement, is that this is being used as a justification by for-profit hospital systems to cut corners further. From a National Nurses United blog post (spotted by 404 Media):
https://www.404media.co/nurses-protest-ai-automation/
"Nurses are not against scientific or technological advancement, but we will not accept algorithms replacing the expertise, experience, holistic, and hands-on approach we bring to patient care," they added.

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Humanity is one convincing deepfake away from a global catastrophe

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/ … tastrophe/