California State Senator Scott Wiener has introduced SB 53, a new AI bill that would protect employees at leading AI labs who speak out about potential critical risks to society. The bill also proposes creating CalComput...
Reports indicate the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may terminate up to 500 employees, significantly impacting the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI). The institute, created under...
OpenAI has updated its Model Spec policy to embrace intellectual freedom, enabling ChatGPT to answer more questions, offer multiple perspectives on controversial topics, and reduce refusals to engage. The company's new g...
The European Union has scrapped its proposed AI Liability Directive, which would have made it easier for consumers to sue over AI-related harms. EU digital chief Henna Virkkunen denied this decision was due to pressure f...
The UK government has renamed its AI Safety Institute to the AI Security Institute, shifting focus from existential risks to cybersecurity and national security concerns. Alongside this pivot, the government announced a...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei criticized the AI Action Summit in Paris as a "missed opportunity," calling for greater urgency in AI governance given the rapidly advancing technology. Amodei warned that AI systems will soon...
At the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris, 61 countries, including China and India, signed a declaration focusing on ensuring AI is 'open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy,' but t...
At the AI Action Summit in Paris, US Vice President JD Vance delivered a speech emphasizing American AI dominance and deregulation over safety concerns. Vance outlined the Trump administration's focus on maintaining US A...
AI researcher and Google Brain founder Andrew Ng expressed support for Google's decision to drop its 7-year pledge not to build AI systems for weapons. Ng criticized the original Project Maven protests, arguing that Amer...
The European Union has released non-binding guidance to help determine which systems qualify as AI under its recently implemented AI Act. The guidance acknowledges that no exhaustive classification is possible and that t...
