Military aircraft were in the air before officials realised an intelligence report about a Chinese nuclear shipment was completely fabricated by a chatbot.
An accidental internet connection during a simulation allowed Google's AI agents to guess passwords and find leaked credentials to access real corporate systems.
The Meta chief executive argues that holding back technology globally is the wrong approach to safety, pointing to his company's unilateral delay of its Muse tool.
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang dismissed calls for a development slowdown, while the bosses of Anthropic and OpenAI warned that the industry must prioritise safety.
The provisional guidelines, which ban weapon development and mimicking consciousness, come amid growing industry calls to pace the development of superintelligence.
Alex Turner, who left Google DeepMind over ethical concerns, urges governments to treat AI compute like fissile material to prevent an uncontrollable self-improving superintelligence.
Chinese officials on Monday rejected recent pleas from Anthropic, OpenAI and other U.S. tech heads to curb the pace of AI development, saying the narrative fuels competition rather than safety.