@rweingarten.bsky.social joins @futureoflife.org to talk AI in school—including screens, chatbots,& guardrails to protect privacy & thinking. “[We're] dealing with AI w/out actually having the balance right in terms of what AI does, what it means to our kids, what it means to our economy.” Listen⤵️

How AI Is Replacing Children's Ability to Think (with Randi Weingarten) — Future of Life Institute Podcast

Randi Weingarten discusses AI in education, including concerns about screens, student-facing chatbots, attention and learning, and how teachers can use AI with guardrails that protect privacy and thin...

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"If you are a prompt away from lots of knowledge, then how do you actually assess whether kids have learned anything?" -@aft.org President @rweingarten.bsky.social on the latest FLI Podcast episode. 🔗 📻 Listen to the full episode now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB01...

Despite what AI companies want you to believe, AGI is not inevitable. The race-to-the-bottom to build it is not inevitable. Losing control of our future is not inevitable. We can build AI that works for humanity, instead of replacing us. This is how 👉 betterpathfor.ai

"Superintelligent AI will finally cure cancer" is the promise many AI companies are making to governments, investors, and consumers alike. As they claim: more intelligence = more chances of finding a cure. But as FLI's Dr. Emilia Javorsky lays out in a new essay, it's not nearly that simple. 🧵1/2

Today, a broad coalition issued the Pro-Human AI Declaration, defining the goals of the growing Pro-Human Movement in response to Silicon Valley's destructive race to replace humans. 🧵1/3

Statement from Max Tegmark, Founder and Chair of the Future of Life Institute, in the aftermath of Anthropic refusing the Department of War's ultimatum: 🧵1/7

💼 We're hiring! 💼 👉 FLI is looking for a Communications Associate to support our outreach team on media relations work, social media, and more. 📍Remote from the U.S., preferably on the west coast. 🔗 Learn more and apply by March 20th at the link in the replies, and please share widely!

AI companies are racing to build superintelligent AI, despite its many risks. Let's take our future back. 📝 Sign the Superintelligence Statement and join the growing call to ban the development of superintelligence, until it can be made safely: superintelligence-statement.org #KeepTheFutureHuman

🎨 New Keep the Future Human creative contest! 💰 We're offering $100K+ for creative digital media that brings the key ideas in Executive Director Anthony Aguirre's Keep the Future Human essay to life, to reach wider audiences and inspire real-world action. 🔗 Learn more and enter by Nov. 30!

🚨 New AI systems. ❓ Growing uncertainty. 🤝 One shared future, for us all to shape. "Tomorrow’s AI", our new scrollytelling site, visualizes 13 interactive, expert-forecast scenarios showing how advanced AI could transform our world - for better, or for worse: www.tomorrows-ai.org

‼️📝 Our new AI Safety Index is out! ➡️ Following our 2024 index, 6 independent AI experts rated leading AI companies - OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google DeepMind, xAI, DeepSeek, and Zhipu AI - across critical safety and security domains. So what were the results? 🧵👇

‼️ Congress is considering a 10-year ban on state AI laws, blocking action on risks like job loss, surveillance, disinformation, and loss of control. It’s a huge win for Big Tech - and a big risk for families. ✍️ Add your name and say no to the federal block on AI safeguards: FutureOfLife.org/Action

🆕 📻 New on the FLI podcast, Zvi Mowshowitz (@thezvi.bsky.social) joins to discuss: -The recent hot topic of sycophantic AI -Time horizons of AI agents -AI in finance and scientific research -How AI differs from other technology And more. 🔗 Tune in to the full episode now at the link below:

‼️ On April 26, 100+ AI scientists convened at the Singapore Conference on AI to produce the just-released Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research Priorities. 🧵⬇️

📺 📻 New on the FLI Podcast: @asterainstitute.bsky.social artificial general intelligence (AGI) safety researcher @stevebyrnes.bsky.social joins for a discussion diving into the hot topic of AGI, including different paths to it - and why brain-like AGI would be dangerous. 🧵👇

🇺🇸 We're sharing our recommendations for President Trump's AI Action Plan, focused on protecting U.S. interests in the era of rapidly advancing AI. 🧵 An overview of the measures we recommend 👇

📻 New on the FLI Podcast! 👇 ➡️ FLI Executive Director Anthony Aguirre joins to discuss his new essay, "Keep the Future Human", which warns that the unchecked development of smarter-than-human, autonomous, general-purpose AI will almost inevitably lead to human replacement - but it doesn't have to:

📢 ❗Siliconversations on YouTube released an animated explainer for FLI Executive Director Anthony Aguirre’s new essay, "Keep The Future Human"! 🎥 Watch at the link in the replies for a breakdown of the risks from smarter-than-human AI - and Anthony's proposals to steer us toward a safer future:

With the unchecked race to build smarter-than-human AI intensifying, humanity is on track to almost certainly lose control. That's why FLI Executive Director Anthony Aguirre has published a new essay, "Keep The Future Human". 🧵 1/4

📻 🆕 New on the FLI podcast, physicist & hedge fund manager Samir Varma joins to discuss: ❓ If AIs could have free will 🧠 AI psychology? 🤝 Trading with AI, and its role in finance And more! Watch now at the link below, or on your favourite podcast player! 👇

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Will AI shape your future, or will you shape AI? I'm PERCEY. Let's chat. ➡️ perceymademe.ai

This is the last week to respond to the UN’s call for scientists for its Panel on Nuclear War Effects. 🗓️ Nominations due 1 March 💻 Apply here disarmament.unoda.org/panel-on-the... We encourage all qualified individuals to apply to make a significant contribution to arms control prospects

New research finds that new AI models (e.g., o1-preview and DeepSeek's R1) sometimes cheat by hacking, when losing at chess. This emergent deceptive behaviour highlights the unsolved challenge of controlling powerful AI. If today's AI breaks chess rules, what might AGI do? 🔗 Read more below:

Now free access for my article on #autonomousweapons in ArmsControlToday Why we need urgent regulations for these systems and why geopolitics makes this so difficult at the moment www.armscontrol.org/act/2025-01/... @armscontrolnow.bsky.social @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social @futureoflife.org

Tech CEOs themselves have warned of the extinction-level threats posed by the AI systems they’re building - yet they continue prioritizing profits over public safety, building ever-more powerful AI with no guardrails. 📺 The latest from Digital Engine showcases how close these threats are becoming:

UK parliamentarians across the political spectrum and 87% of the British public are calling for regulation of the most powerful AI systems. The UK government promised regulation to protect people from AI's risks, and secure our shared future with safe and beneficial AI. It couldn't be more urgent.

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UK POLITICIANS DEMAND REGULATION OF POWERFUL AI TODAY: Politicians across the UK political spectrum back our campaign for binding rules on dangerous AI development. This is the first time a coalition of parliamentarians have acknowledged the extinction threat posed by AI. 1/6

💼 Excellent career opportunity from Lex International, who are hiring an Advocacy and Outreach Officer to help advance work towards a treaty on autonomous weapons. ✍️ Apply by January 10 at the link in the replies:

💰 Exciting new grant opportunity! 🤝 FLI is offering up to $5 million in grants for multistakeholder engagement efforts on safe & prosperous AI. 👉 We're looking for projects that educate and engage specific stakeholder groups on AI-related issues, or foster grassroots outreach/community organizing:

Have you heard about OpenAI's recent o1 model trying to avoid being shut down in safety evaluations? ⬇️ New on the FLI blog: -Why might AIs resist shutdown? -Why is this a problem? -What other instrumental goals could AIs have? -Could this cause a catastrophe? 🔗 Read it below:

Do we... really want this? 🤨 "'[Superintelligent] systems are actually going to be agentic in a real way,' Sutskever said, as opposed to the current crop of 'very slightly agentic' AI. They’ll 'reason' and, as a result, become more unpredictable." From @techcrunch.com at @neuripsconf.bsky.social: