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What smart people are saying about the AI apocalypse and calls to slow everything down
6+ hour, 26+ min ago (1027+ words) It took the possibility of species annihilation, but AI leaders did something remarkable this weekend: They reached a consensus. After ex-Anthropic engineer Jacob Coxon's warnings about a looming AI armageddon lit a firestorm among techies and politicians alike, the leaders…...
The AI doomsday debate intensifies
14+ hour, 34+ min ago (358+ words) What do you do if you feel like you're helping build something that could contribute to the end of humanity? This is the existential question confronting the AI industry, a debate that only intensified after Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic researcher,…...
Read the memo: PwC US is planning big changes to its offshore structure in India
17+ hour, 7+ min ago (455+ words) PwC US is overhauling its offshore delivery structure in India, bringing its local operations closer to PwC India's consulting business. The US firm and PwC India plan to form a new joint venture that will merge PwC US's India-based offshoring…...
Why AI researchers keep building something they think will kill humans
17+ hour, 43+ min ago (582+ words) On Tuesday, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar headlined a packed Goldman Sachs tech conference in San Francisco. One thing she said really stood out to me: The company's biggest models can now train other smaller models, helping OpenAI save on the…...
The US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on this day in 1945. Haunting photos show what happened.
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1115+ words) On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb that weighed 9,788 pounds called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 5 square miles of the city, including 62,000 buildings. As many as 80,000 people are estimated to have been…...
'I saw Terminator 2 ': YC's Garry Tan pushes back on AI doom fears
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (162+ words) Garry Tan says we're getting distracted by Hollywood-style doomsday scenarios when we should be focused on real AI risks emerging today....
A former Google DeepMind safety researcher explains the frightening difference between AI and other threats like nuclear war and asteroids
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (803+ words) Climate change can't anticipate our next move. An asteroid can't dodge us. And while humans can be adversaries in a nuclear war, the fallout that follows isn't trying to outsmart anyone. For Business Insider's video series "AI Architects," Ramana Kumar…...
What it was like to dine at Windows on the World, the restaurant atop the World Trade Center, before it was lost on 9/11
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (688+ words) Before the 9/11 attacks, Windows on the World was an upscale restaurant where people dined overlooking expansive views of Manhattan....
Ukrainian drones flew almost 2,000 miles to hit fuel plants in the Russian Arctic
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (370+ words) Ukraine's drones flew nearly 2,000 miles into northwestern Siberia to strike two Russian gas facilities, a record distance for the war, said Ukrainian special forces. The strikes on Wednesday targeted a major plant in Novy Urengoy, a gas-producing city, and another…...
Sam Altman met with power utilities about securing the electrical grid. He offered one possible solution: OpenAI's cyber services.
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (384+ words) OpenAI has met with representatives of multiple top power companies to discuss methods of securing the electrical grid, the artificial intelligence firm told POLITICO — conversations that occurred amid a continuing series of revelations about its own products' role in a…...