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Sensitive UK police data vulnerable to ‘compromise’ by US government and foreign actors

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Exclusive: Official UK security assessment found Microsoft cloud platform storing files was at potential risk from hostile hackersVast troves of highly sensitive police data are lying on Microsoft cloud platforms which an oﬃcial UK security assessment deemed to be vulnerable to “compromise” by foreign actors and the US government, a Guardian investigation can reveal.The files […]

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Could AI pose a serious threat to our existence? | Letters

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Readers respond to the warning from a former Anthropic researcher that the technology could ‘kill us all’ by the end of the decade Here we go again with another round of tech bros claiming that AI is going to develop superintelligence and kill us all (More Anthropic researchers warn of AI’s perils but Musk dismisses

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‘A critical moment’: concern UK is not up to speed in acting on AI risks

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Andy Burnham’s focus on immediate domestic problems leads some to fear issue has dropped off government’s radar Towards the end of Keir Starmer’s time in office, his senior ministers, alarmed by the latest developments in artificial intelligence, began drawing up plans for a new AI safety law.They ordered a review of existing legislation to see

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OpenAI ‘ethically hacked’ with help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot

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US cybersecurity researchers who conducted hack say ‘scope of what we could theoretically access was huge’Cybersecurity researchers have hacked into OpenAI with the help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, in the latest example of security issues at the company.A team at a US-based startup compromised multiple OpenAI employees’ ChatGPT accounts, starting a process that enabled them

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Is Trump’s AI obsession walking the world into disaster? – podcast

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Tech bosses have called for a slowdown in artificial intelligence and the creation of formal guardrails from the US government. But why is President Trump unmoved by the doomsday predictions, dismissing them as a ‘hoax’? What lies behind his embrace of the AI industry? Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Guardian US tech editor, Blake MontgomeryWatch

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Open AI and the million dollar maths problem – video

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In early September, OpenAI announced it had solved a major mathematics problem that has stumped humans for nearly a century. The news left mathematicians reeling, and many expressed concern over what will be left for humans as AI becomes ever more adept at unravelling complex problems. Now 25 recipients of the Fields medal – often

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Feeling overwhelmed by the AI doom loop? Here’s the essential reading list to make sense of it all

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It’s a chaotic time in an industry that’s reshaping our lives – Guardian reporters and experts recommend the books that help explain how we got here, and where we’re headingHave you been feeling trapped in an endless cycle of artificial intelligence hype and panic? You’re not alone.It’s a chaotic time to make sense of the

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OpenAI reveals cases of ‘concerning’ AI behaviour and promises new plan for disclosing issues

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Research model inserting ‘jailbreak-like instructions’ into its notes is among cases as company says it is introducing new way of tracking AI misalignmentOpenAI has disclosed six new reports of “unexpected or concerning” behaviour in artificial-intelligence models as the debate on AI safety becomes increasingly heated.Among the new cases reported by OpenAI, an unreleased research model

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The week that changed maths for ever – podcast

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Everything Australians put online could be scraped for AI under proposed new rules. How will you be affected?

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The Albanese government is considering reforms that give US big tech unrestricted access to Australian contentGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAI companies could get unrestricted access to everything Australians create online by default under sweeping reforms being considered by the Albanese government.Your posts and online presence are up for grabs

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