The use of AI is never a purely technical matter: when it enters processes that affect people’s lives, it touches on rights, opportunities, status and freedom"
—Pope Leo XIV
Vaibhav Jha is an Editor and Co-founder of AI FrontPage. In his decade long career in journalism, Vaibhav has reported for publications including The Indian Express, Hindustan Times, and The New York Times, covering the intersection of technology, policy, and society. Outside work, he’s usually trying to persuade people to watch Anurag Kashyap films.
Obama says AI could deliver breakthroughs in medicine, energy and education but also trigger economic disruption, inequality and potentially catastrophic consequences.
The UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights has called the country’s current AI regulatory framework “fundamentally inadequate” for addressing AI-specific risks, urging the government to introduce a new AI law and give statutory powers to the AI Safety Institute.
China has hit back at Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to slow frontier AI development, with state-backed Global Times accusing him of following a “Cold War playbook” aimed at curbing China’s AI ambitions.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the code for Microsoft’s MAI models will be released for public feedback, as the debate over frontier AI safety and the pace of AI development intensifies.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has proposed establishing a BRICS AI open-source community to promote cooperation on large language models, AI training and applications, as Beijing seeks a greater role in shaping the Global South’s artificial intelligence ecosystem
Yann LeCun has mocked Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to slow the development of frontier AI models, arguing that similar warnings have been made before without justification.
Anthropic has released an extensive threat-intelligence report documenting what it describes as malicious or unauthorized uses of its AI models across cyber operations, influence campaigns, surveillance, fraud, biological research, conventional weapons development and illicit AI-model distillation.
Anthropic’s new study finds AI could dramatically boost economic output by 2030 while disproportionately hurting cognitive workers, with its extreme scenario projecting 32% higher GDP and 17.9% unemployment among cognitive workers.
Anthropic is facing growing political scrutiny after AI researcher Jacob Coxon quit warning that AI companies are racing toward self-improving superintelligence.
IDFC FIRST Bank and Sarvam AI have announced a joint R&D lab to develop AI systems that can learn from banking operations, adapt to real-world outcomes and improve over time.
