Top news of the week: 04.04.2023.
How science-fiction tropes shape military AI
Pop culture influences how people think about artificial intelligence, and that spills over to how military planners think about war—obscuring the more mundane ways AI is likely to be used.
Hundreds of UK scientists and academics urge Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to prevent any new oil and gas field development
A letter initiated by Cambridge Zero Director Professor Emily Shuckburgh tells the Prime Minister that the latest global report on climate change demonstrates now is the time to …
How a Senator’s Misguided Tweet Can Help Us Understand AI
AI researchers rushed to correct Senator Chris Murphy after he repeated an increasingly popular trope related to AI chatbots.
What happened when WMD experts tried to make the GPT-4 AI do bad things
The creators of ChatGPT decided to test whether their AI systems can teach someone to build and use nuclear and biological weapons. Was it enough?
Microsoft Word - AI and Cybersecurity Testimony - 5_1_2022
We have seen new attack techniques and the exploitation of new attack surfaces aimed at disrupting critical infrastructure and accessing confidential data.1 In 2021 alone, the …
Elon Musk joins call for pause in creation of giant AI ‘digital minds’
Steve Wozniak and DeepMind, Meta, Miscrosoft, Google and Amazon engineers raise alert over risks as UK government shuns regulation
The AI factions of Silicon Valley
Concerns about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence and those who want to advance it have divided the tech industry.
AI chatbots making it harder to spot phishing emails, say experts
Poor spelling and grammar that can help identify fraudulent attacks being rectified by artificial intelligence