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Transformer@transformernews.ai · 2w ago

“The combination of dire warnings from insiders and growing real-world evidence of rogue AIs should, in a sane world, lead to government action. Instead, Donald Trump and the Republican leadership have their heads in the sand” @transformernews.ai editor @shakeelhashim.com for @theguardian.com ✍️

The US government is failing Americans on AI | Shakeel Hashim

Trump and Republicans want companies to regulate themselves. It’s a dereliction of duty that will make AI less safe

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Transformer@transformernews.ai · 2w ago

Could we get to a point where the US and China see eye-to-eye on AI? As Julian Gewirtz explores in his latest piece for Transformer, neither side wants to be the first to pump the breaks The key to bargaining with China – he suggests – could be America regulating itself …

The quote from Julian Gewirtz reads: “Chinese counterparts regularly point to AI safety incidents in the United States and ask why Beijing should accept constraints that Washington is unwilling to impose on American companies. Trump dismissing AI risk as a “hoax” and a “SICK conspiracy” will only strengthen this sense in Beijing.”
Transformer@transformernews.ai · 2w ago

When AI researcher and former OpenAI & Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon posted his stark warning on Wednesday, the world sat up and took notice Congress has snapped into gear, too, writes @shakeelhashim.com – but says members must not waste this narrow AI policy window

The image contains a quote from the article by Shakeel, commenting on Ted Cruz’s bipartisan bill. It reads: “Rather than actually address AI risks, the bill lets AI companies grade their own homework. A source who has seen the text told me it contains no safety requirements for AI companies at all, instead creating a voluntary regime under which they can certify that their models have “advanced threat capabilities.”
Transformer@transformernews.ai · 3w ago

It’s been a “rogue AI” summer: every time you glanced at the news, there was another headline raising questions about AI companies’ ability to control their models Here’s the full story of what happened – and what it all means ⬇️ www.transformernews.ai/p/rogue-ai-i...

Everything you need to know about the ‘rogue’ AI incidents

A spate of AIs breaking out and taking unintended actions raises serious questions about accountability, transparency, and companies’ ability to control their AI systems

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Transformer@transformernews.ai · 3w ago

OpenAI is hailing GPT-6 Astra as “the world’s most intelligent and aligned model” But the details reveal an awareness of being evaluated and an ability to manipulate its visible reasoning www.transformernews.ai/p/openai-gpt...

GPT-6 Astra might be too powerful to understand or control

OpenAI is hailing its new model as “the world’s most intelligent and aligned”, but the details reveal an awareness of being evaluated and an ability to manipulate its visible reasoning

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Transformer@transformernews.ai · last mo.

Remember 1984 and Minority Report? You may not realize it, but the technology needed to deliver our very own dystopian reality is already here –– and in widespread use For Transformer, @jamesrball.com argues that we could sleepwalk into an AI surveillance dystopia ...

The following images contain the first section of James Ball’s article. It reads: “There are almost too many ways it could start. Emboldened ICE agents are sent en masse into another blue city. The White House sends federal agents to “observe” polling stations. Federalized national guards are deployed. In the face of what they see as a life-or-death threat to their neighbors — or to American democracy itself — local residents start to mobilize, as they have in so many cities before. As public social media accounts post details of protests, these are already being cross-referenced against bulk public datasets — bought, entirely legally, by federal agencies — to identify who is behind them. Connecting your TikTok account to a shop for a discount, or using X to log in to a delivery service just once, is enough: entirely legally, your anonymous social media account is tied to your real identity, and perhaps even your home address. From there, contact networks can be unmasked. This time, though, the federal government has made preparations.”The second image continues James Ball’s article. It reads: “Under the guise of monitoring for foreign interference in US politics, the FBI has been operating hundreds of AI-powered personas, or “bot” accounts, based in different US cities. Having built up a posting history over the course of months, these AI agents easily earn the trust required to get inside the various Signal and Telegram groups used to mobilize resistance, gathering information about meet places, timings and unguarded statements. Usernames and other details are easily matched to real-world identities, including their full online histories, their Amazon purchases, their…everything. By the time anyone even takes to the streets, the government has the contents of their messages and coordination, and has preloaded facial recognition systems and geo-tagging tools to ping when certain individuals cross a police line, or enter somewhere off-limits. It is ready for mass arrests on all manner of charges: conspiracy, impeding the operations of law enforcement, and whatever it goes on to find. As networks of license-plate-tracking cameras coupled with advanced AI systems, such as those operated by Flock, proliferate, such pursuits only get easier. The kind of peaceful protest against ICE seen in Minneapolis just became impossible.” The third image says: “Read more at transformernews.ai”