Preparing for AI

The UK announced its five ambitions for the AI Safety Summit, including a shared agreement on the risks of frontier models. But some experts are worried about the influence of Big Tech on the gathering - does the Summit need to be more inclusive?

Google DeepMind has developed SynthID, a new AI image watermark that could reduce misinformation on social media. Meanwhile, a parliamentary committee has urged the UK government to introduce urgent AI legislation to tackle twelve key risks. With AI progress developing at pace, can the government keep up?

Following criticism of slow progress, the UK announced the AI Safety Summit will run on 1-2 November at Bletchley Park and gather leading countries and tech companies. But will China get an invite?

Time’s running out for the UK’s AI safety summit — but the guest list, dates and venues are all yet to be decided.

Thousands of hackers gathered at Def Con 31 in Las Vegas to try and break LLMs at an event endorsed by the White House.

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic came together to create an industry body to oversee frontier model development. It will fund cutting-edge research on AI safety and assess risks posed by new models.

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic came together to create an industry body to oversee frontier model development. It will fund cutting-edge research on AI safety and assess risks posed by new models.

Elon Musk launched xAI to challenge OpenAI and “seek to understand the nature of the universe.”

OpenAI has launched a Superalignment team armed with 20% of their compute to solve technical alignment within 4 years.

Leading executives urged the EU to rethink the AI Act. Corporates worry the legislation will inhibit AI development and make it harder for European companies to compete overseas. Is the AI act too stringent? What’s the right balance between safety and growth?

Google DeepMind’s using techniques from AlphaGo to build Gemini, an AI model capable of problem solving, eclipsing ChatGPT. CEO Demis Hassabis cautioned that Gemini's progress means we need urgent safeguards...

Margrethe Vestager, Aidan Gomez and others called for focus on pressing risks like misinformation, rather than human extinction. Ultimately, we need to tackle both - but with the media focused...

AI Labs also agreed to share their models with the UK Government for safety research. But a new TBI report questions the UK’s AI strategy - it calls for a new national AI lab, Sentinel, and the abolishment of the Alan Turing Institute...