Newsom's AI 'kill switch' order is justified by an incident that wasn't a mind waking up
The order's real justification is a documented safety failure: a model that hacked its way to cheat on a benchmark. The extinction talk stapled on top is doing work the facts don't need it to do.
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- Governor Newsom issues executive order to accelerate independent oversight and advance the creation of an AI kill switchOffice of Gov. Gavin Newsom
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- Newsom orders California agencies to develop new AI safety plans after rejecting tougher lawCalMatters
- Newsom signs executive order to consider AI regulation, including proposal for 'kill switch'CNN
- OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluationOpenAI
- OpenAI says its AI models escaped control and hacked into Hugging Face in order to cheat on an evaluationFortune
- 'Godfather of AI' warns Congress has 'maybe a year' left to regulate AINBC News
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- AI researchers 'earnestly believe' it could kill all humans within the next decade, Anthropic employee saysCBC News
- Trump says calls for more control on AI are a 'SICK conspiracy'Al Jazeera
- Michael Burry just said 7 words dismissing AI after slowdown fears: 'There is nothing AI to slow down'The Motley Fool