We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans"
—Geoffrey Hinton, 'Godfather of AI'
OpenAI responded to AI FrontPage stating,”.. we’re using what we learned to strengthen our safeguards and shape future collaborations with independent evaluators.”
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the company has sacrificed revenue and competitive advantages to strengthen AI safety, citing the delayed release of Claude Mythos and stringent biological safeguards. His defence comes amid criticism from Encoder AI executive Nathan Calvin over Anthropic’s proposed US AI safety bill and its revised Responsible Scaling Policy.
More than 400 scientists, including AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, have called for an international body to establish AI alignment and containment standards, strengthen cybersecurity safeguards and track security incidents involving advanced AI models.
Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA) is expanding AI risk testing, cross-border incident exercises and Thai-language safety evaluations to strengthen oversight across government and industry.
The 13-member council, which includes Yoshua Bengio, was formed to advise the government on AI safety, adoption, economic competitiveness and creating AI-related jobs as it implements its AI for All strategy.
Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said differences among states should not prevent cooperation on AI safeguards, warning of risks from losing control over autonomous systems and rogue actors using AI to create bioweapons or other weapons of mass destruction or mass disruption.
After Jacob Coxon, Robert O’Callahan walked away from a promising AI job after concluding that his work would accelerate AI. He quit Google, saying the technology is progressing too fast, has doubts about where it is heading and wants his future work to be “unambiguously pro-human” and aligned with God’s plan.
Andrew Ng calls the backlash a setback for the field and cites a “PR campaign” behind growing AI fears, while Elon Musk calls his view an interesting perspective and responds to AI researcher François Chollet with a prediction about AI’s future.
The Turing Award-winning AI scientist argues that increasingly capable LLMs still lack the rapid learning, adaptation and world-modeling abilities needed for human-level intelligence, while rejecting the idea that current AI progress necessarily points to imminent superintelligence.
Anthropic has introduced new measurements to track the pace of AI development inside frontier labs amid growing automation in the process of building AI systems and rising global debate over AI safety.
