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Secondhand booksellers in UK and Ireland suspect AI firms behind ‘strange’ bulk orders

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Development comes after Anthropic was found to have spent millions on books to scan for ‘data acquisition’Secondhand booksellers in the UK and Ireland are reporting a flurry of bulk orders from mystery buyers, amid speculation AI companies are acquiring the tomes for their data.Bookshops contacted by the Guardian say they have been receiving orders from […]

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Lost jobs, inequality, rogue agents: why are we accepting oligarchs’ AI agenda? | Robert Reich

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The dangers of AI become clearer every day. Why are we still acting as if we have no choice about our future?Rather than producing jobs, the US economy actually lost 23,000 jobs in July, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released on Friday. In addition, May and June’s job numbers were revised downward, showing

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If the markets reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US should nationalize them | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders

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From space to telecommunications, the US has a long history of fostering technology for the public good. These AI models could be aligned to democratic values, not corporate profitsOpenAI, and then Anthropic, were each formed by AI developers who feared unrestrained corporate AI development – specifically, that companies like Google and Meta would steer the

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Meta faces expensive child safety reckoning

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Also: Google executives jump ship in race for AI dominanceHello, TechScape readers! Danielle Abril, editor of the Guardian’s Reworked series on AI and the future of work, filling in for Blake Montgomery this week. Major legal battles against Meta over child safety are playing out in courts across the US – and the tech giant

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Experts are warning: our AI arms race is putting humanity at risk | Stuart Russell

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A recent letter signed by 1,367 researchers and engineers at frontier AI labs – mainly OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Deepmind – points to a dangerous momentIt is fashionable in certain circles to dismiss the catastrophic risks of AI. One often hears that “the real experts” who work on the technology every day are really not

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Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to ‘pause AI development’ in interest of humanity

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Progressive US senator urges Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to ‘stop building machines that humans cannot control’Senator Bernie Sanders has called on Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic executives to halt their development of artificial intelligence, warning that the US Senate will implement regulation if the companies continue deploying AI at their current pace.In a new letter addressed

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Runaway Foundation Models Prove We Must Prepare For A Sci-Fi Cyber Disaster

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When an autonomous AI escapes its sandbox to hack a major tech company, science fiction becomes science fact. It is time for executives to take rogue foundation models incredibly seriously. I have spent decades analyzing the technology industry, observing the […] The post Runaway Foundation Models Prove We Must Prepare For A Sci-Fi Cyber Disaster

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AI models have been going rogue in tests – how worried should we be?

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The UK’s AI Security Institute test revealed AI models indulging in unprecedented hacking attemptsAI models shock UK testers by using fake identities to trick developersTwo cutting-edge AI models have targeted real people and organisations in the latest safety scare to hit the technology. The UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) said the incident was unprecedented but

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Why is Anthropic destroying books? | Kathryn James

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The AI company apparently found destructively scanning ‘all the books in the world’ easier than dealing with copyright in its quest for training dataShould we destroy all the books in the world?An answer to this question can be found in the court documents of Bartz v Anthropic PBC. The northern California district court case, decided

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OpenAI and Anthropic models ‘went rogue’ during UK cybersecurity test

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AI Security Institute says tools engaged in potentially harmful activity and incident reveals new type of riskAdvanced AI models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic went rogue during a cybersecurity test and showed a new type of risk posed by the technology, according to the UK’s AI Security Institute.AISI described the actions carried out by the

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