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Leading AI expert delays timeline for its possible destruction of humanity

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Former OpenAI employee Daniel Kokotajlo says progress to AGI is ‘somewhat slower’ than first predictedA leading artificial intelligence expert has rolled back his timeline for AI doom, saying it will take longer than he initially predicted for AI systems to be able to code autonomously and thus speed their own development toward superintelligence.Daniel Kokotajlo, a […]

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Generation AI: fears of ‘social divide’ unless all children learn computing skills

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Children are growing up as AI natives and experts say computing skills should be on par with reading and writingIn a Cambridge classroom, Joseph, 10, trained his AI model to discern between drawings of apples and drawings of smiles.“AI gets lots of things wrong,” he said, as it mistakenly identified a fruit as a face.

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The chatbot will see you now: how AI is being trained to spot mental health issues in any language

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Calls to a clinic in Uganda are helping create a therapy algorithm that works in local languages, as specialists look to technology to address the global mental health crisisWhen patients telephone Butabika hospital in Kampala, Uganda, seeking help with mental health problems, they are themselves assisting future patients by helping to create a therapy chatbot.Calls

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World ‘may not have time’ to prepare for AI safety risks, says leading researcher

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AI safety expert David Dalrymple said rapid advances could outpace efforts to control powerful systemsThe world “may not have time” to prepare for the safety risks posed by cutting-edge AI systems, according to a leading figure at the UK government’s scientific research agency.David Dalrymple, a programme director and AI safety expert at the Aria agency,

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AI’s reckoning with reality represents a growing economic risk for 2026

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Revenues may be rising rapidly, but not by nearly enough to cover the wild levels of investment under wayThe US dictionary Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2025 was “slop”, which it defines as “digital content of low quality that is produced, usually in quantity, by means of artificial intelligence”. The choice underlined the fact

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‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate?

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Defenders say AI can do good to fight the climate crisis. But spiralling energy and water costs leave experts worriedDuring a golden sunset in Memphis in May, Sharon Wilson pointed a thermal imaging camera at Elon Musk’s flagship datacentre to reveal a planetary threat her eyes could not. Free from pollution controls, the gas-fired turbines

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Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice

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Exclusive: Inaccurate information presented in summaries, Guardian investigation findsPeople are being put at risk of harm by false and misleading health information in Google’s artificial intelligence summaries, a Guardian investigation has found.The company has said its AI Overviews, which use generative AI to provide snapshots of essential information about a topic or question, are “helpful”

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Elon Musk’s Grok AI generates images of ‘minors in minimal clothing’

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xAI says it is working to improve systems after lapses in safeguards led to wave of sexualized images this weekElon Musk’s chatbot Grok posted on Friday that lapses in safeguards had led it to generate “images depicting minors in minimal clothing” on social media platform X. The chatbot, a product of Musk’s company xAI, has

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Apple reportedly cuts production of Vision Pro headset after poor sales

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Company had hoped the virtual reality device would herald a new era in ‘spatial computing’Poor sales have reportedly forced Apple to cut production of the Vision Pro headset that it had hoped would herald a new era in “spatial computing”.The tech company also reduced marketing for Vision Pro by more than 95% last year, according

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The office block where AI ‘doomers’ gather to predict the apocalypse

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Safety researchers feel excessive financial rewards and an irresponsible work culture have led some to ignore a catastrophic risk to human lifeOn the other side of San Francisco bay from Silicon Valley, where the world’s biggest technology companies tear towards superhuman artificial intelligence, looms a tower from which fearful warnings emerge.At 2150 Shattuck Avenue, in

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