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Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Says Generative AI Could Create A 4-Day Workweek

According to Christopher Pissarides, a shorter workweek will not necessarily result in a loss in pay.

International Business Times UK

Nobel Prize-winning economist weighs in on how ChatGPT-like tools are transforming the future of work—1 year since its launch

Chris Pissarides cautions that it will require other factors including greater tech investment and supportive policies before society reaps AI's benefits in earnest.

Fortune

Who is Ilya Sutskever, the man at the center of OpenAI’s leadership shakeup—and why is he so worried about AI superintelligence going rogue?

The OpenAI chief scientist has been key to the company’s success—and is increasingly worried about AI safety.

Fortune

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AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li: ‘I’m more concerned about the risks that are here and now’

The Stanford professor and ‘godmother’ of artificial intelligence on why existential worries are not her priority, and her work to ensure the technology improves the human condition

The Guardian - UK

AI bot performed insider trading and lied to user: research

"Alpha," a fictional investment tool, lied to its user about committing insider trading in a prime example of AI deception.

Fortune

Race to AI: the origins of artificial intelligence, from Turing to ChatGPT

Today’s poem-writing AI has ancestry in punch-card machines, trundling robots and godlike gaming engines

The Guardian - UK

Wednesday briefing: Inside the battle to contain – and capitalise on – artificial intelligence

In today’s newsletter: As Rishi Sunak gets ready to host a global AI summit at Bletchley Park, our global technology editor explains how experts want to mitigate its risks and harness its power

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Hope or horror? The great AI debate dividing its pioneers

CEO of DeepMind is ‘not a pessimist’ but warns of threat from AI and says we must be active in shaping ‘a middle way’

The Guardian - UK

AI firms must be held responsible for harm they cause, ‘godfathers’ of technology say

Authors and academics also warn development of advanced systems ‘utterly reckless’ without safety checks

The Guardian - UK

Sunak’s global AI safety summit risks achieving very little, warns tech boss

Big tech firms attempting to ‘capture’ meeting of heads of government, says Connor Leahy

The Guardian - UK

Godfather of AI: Rogue tech will manipulate people to stop from being switched off

Geoffrey Hinton warned AI was likely to become smarter than humans and might start writing its own code.

Fortune

AI systems have learned how to deceive humans. What does that mean for our future?

Artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton made headlines earlier this year when he raised concerns about the capabilities of AI systems. Speaking to CNN journalist Jake Tapper, Hinton said:

The Conversation

Regret and remorse, the companions of progress

The many uses of AI, in science, in medicine, in daily life are undeniable. What cannot be denied too is that research progresses independent of moral considerations.

The Hindu

George Soros says A.I. threatens democracies and helps authoritarians—but he sees no way to stop it

A.I. "helps closed societies and poses a mortal threat to open societies," Soros warned.

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Whose generated line is it anyway? AI tries to crack humour’s DNA

A Netflix standup show was ‘written by bots’. A TV writer has scripted joke software. And now artificial intelligence is taking on improv

Bangkok Post

'Godfather of AI' urges governments to stop machine takeover

TORONTO (CANADA): Geoffrey Hinton, one of the so-called godfathers of artificial intelligence (AI), urged governments on Wednesday to step in and make sure that machines do not take control of society.

Fortune

Elon Musk ‘didn’t think anyone would actually agree’ to A.I. pause he called for

Many took the open letter calling for a pause seriously, including its signatories and critics.

Bangkok Post

Can democracy survive the polycrisis?

We are living in troubled times. Too much is happening too fast. People are confused. The Columbia University economic historian Adam Tooze has, indeed, popularised a word for it. He calls it a "polycrisis".

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Almost half of CEOs fear A.I. could destroy humanity five to ten years from now—but A.I. ‘Godfather’ says an existential threat is ‘preposterously ridiculous’

A.I.’s three ‘godfathers’ appear to be divided on the technology’s potential.

The Guardian - UK

How to develop artificial super-intelligence without destroying humanity

Sam Altman, the founder of the revolutionary application Chat-GPT, is touring Europe with a message: AI is changing the world and there are big risks, but also big potential rewards

The Independent UK

AI could ‘kill many humans’ within two years, warns Sunak adviser

Stark warning comes as Rishi Sunak prepares to persuade Joe Biden of ‘grand plan’ to control artificial intelligence

The Hindu

Feeling the pulse with Doctor AI

AI and machine learning are deployed in several of the medical gadgets and instruments that are in use at present.

PC Gamer

AI industry begs someone to please stop the AI industry before all human life is extinguished by the AI industry

More than 300 researchers and industry leaders signed their names to a new statement warning of a potential extinction event.

Bangkok Post

Have we passed the point of no return with AI?

'Sometimes I think it's as if aliens have landed and people haven't realised because they speak very good English," said Geoffrey Hinton, the 'godfather of AI' (Artificial Intelligence), who resigned from Google and now fears his godchildren will become "things more intelligent than us, taking control".

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One of the three 'godfathers of A.I.' feels 'lost' because of the direction the technology has taken

Professor Yoshua Bengio believes it's not too late to get artificial intelligence on the right path.

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