This is not exactly a good time for regulators. The prevailing mood is: Wait, did things just get worse faster than we expected? Right now, regulators in the UK are frantically looking to control what appears to be a frightening jump in the use of AI. A model created by Anthropic was apparently able to discover a large number of software vulnerabilities and this is making people worried. This is not science fiction. It’s real. After being assessed internally, as the model is still in early trials, regulators started wondering if this new AI system could have negative effects for […]

Something has shifted in the air around AI. It is not a dramatic turn of events, the kind that usually heralds a new dawn, but more akin to a hushed room, where everyone suddenly looks around. This has happened over the last couple of days, as a few high-profile figures have begun to raise a question previously deemed as fantasy. Is AI safe, they are asking, in the event it does not do what they expected? That is the general theme in this report on why some are worried AI may eventually “go rogue.” As the pieces of AI are […]

Something strange is happening in Washington. And no, it is not a new scandal. Government officials are in a frantic rush to deal with the unknown and unpredictable, not the economy, but artificially intelligent computer programs that might be getting a little too good. If you skim through today’s news, like the report on White House efforts to curb dangerous advanced AI, you’ll get a sense of what is going on. The government, bankers, and AI leaders are all in urgent talks over something. Why are they meeting with such urgency? Several current state-of-the-art AI models are not just able […]