Last week, researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation from Anthropic, stating that AI ‘could kill us all by the end of the decade’Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian. Today in tech, we’re discussing the past week’s all-consuming apoplexy over AI safety.AI CEOs say they need to slow the pace of development. But will they?OpenAI urges UK lawmakers to rein in technology amid growing safety fearsEurope must build own AI or risk getting cut off by US or China, says ECB’s LagardeTrump attacks ‘sick conspiracy’ against AI as tech stocks slideMicrosoft proposes limits on its AI with code of conduct amid safety debateI worked at Google DeepMind. You should listen to the warnings about AIWe greet the news that AI could extinguish us with a glazed indifference. What is the way out of this nihilism? Continue reading…
