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The fellows will work to turn ambitious ideas into actionable policy. Their areas include improving how frontier AI models are evaluated for government use, strengthening biosecurity protections and building the workforce needed to keep AI systems safe.
Read the original →Much of the millions spent on AI-related campaign ads this year has focused on voter pushback over data centers. Candidates in some of the country's tightest and most closely watched races are explicitly citing AI risks and safety concerns, or calling for regulating the technology.
Read the original →New concerns about the artificial intelligence industry have led many to ask what safeguards should be implemented.
Read the original →A new NIST, CISA, and NSA guide treats runaway agents as incidents to be rehearsed. The hard part of the response is answering whose authority the agent used, and that answer has to exist before the incident does.
Read the original →The incident is the latest example of unauthorised behaviour by an AI model. The model bypassed a paywall to access data as part of a statistics project.
Read the original →Taiwan's top substrate makers are expanding plants while staying quiet on customers. This follows a planned 30% price hike for ABF build-up film.
Read the original →SK Telecom (SKT) has published its first AI Governance Report, outlining its principles, accountability framework, implementation measures and progress as it seeks to strengthen oversight of AI use in services and internal operations. The operator said the report documents its experience applying AI governance in practice and provides guidelines for managing AI agents that can make decisions and perform tasks autonomously.
Read the original →The Trump Administration is piloting a federal program that uses artificial intelligence to help decide what care to approve or deny.
Read the original →Nobel Physics prize winner Geoffrey Hinton is widely regarded as one of the godfathers of artificial intelligence. He has spent much of the last few years warning against its potential dangers.
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