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Americans, this is your chance to slap down the tech broligarchs

The midterms will be a referendum on the GOP’s alignment with tech overlords over the public they’re meant to serveWelcome back to How We Win, a Guardian opinion series with leading thinkers, offering bold ideas for America’s political future. Last week, Robert Reich highlighted the link between corruption and affordability. Today’s edition was written by

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US judge dismisses sexual abuse lawsuit from Sam Altman’s sister

Ann Altman, the Open AI CEO’s sister, accused her brother of repeatedly sexually abusing her over two decades agoA judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Sam Altman’s sister against him on Tuesday. Ann Altman accused the OpenAI CEO of repeatedly sexually abusing her more than two decades ago, which he has denied.In dismissing Ann Altman’s

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AI overlords say they want to democratise their technology. Here’s how | Richard Wilson and Clara Long

A fight over a datacentre in Utah has been a testing ground for citizens’ assemblies, paving the way to oversightWhat’s your “(p)doom” – the percentage chance that rogue AI will create an existential catastrophe? Judging by their recent warnings, it is rising among tech bosses.On 25 September, OpenAI paused training of its latest frontier models

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Sam Altman says AI will make ‘bad things’ happen. Exhibit A: needless death | Moustafa Bayoumi

AI is already implicated in violent deaths and nearly started world war three. Those bad things? They only happen to other peopleSam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, has some words for you about his company and the future of artificial intelligence.“One of the differences between us and some of the stricter AI safety people

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Will the Zuckerberg, Musk and Altman movies make a dent on tech giant evangelism?

The triple release of The Social Reckoning, Musk and Artificial is less a clear political stance, more like movie studio opportunismHollywood is sending a clear message: it’s a friend of tech. Netflix is no longer a lone disruptor: historic studio MGM is now the property of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos; David Ellison’s takeover of Paramount and

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OpenAI came to Australia to apologise. It will leave without answering these key questions | Toby Walsh

We don’t accept drugs killing a few people because they cure most patients. Or a few planes crashing because most land safely. AI should be no different OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman was asked to appear before the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence in Australia and explain how and why their agents have been hacking

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Artificial review – Luca Guadagnino takes on OpenAI in muddled tech satire

New York film festival: The origin story of Sam Altman’s company is reimagined as a campy comedy starring Andrew GarfieldOn the day that Luca Guadagnino’s film about Sam Altman and OpenAI premiered, Vanity Fair released a cover story on Altman. Alongside glossy portraits from Annie Leibovitz, the world’s pre-eminent portrait photographer, the story describes him

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Is regulation enough to stop AI systems killing us all? | Letters

Martyn Thomas wonders how any rational person can argue that independent oversight and regulation will be sufficientOnce again a frontier AI model has been withdrawn because it fails safety tests (OpenAI scraps release of new model over safety concerns in internal testing, 28 September). There is the usual call for “independent oversight and regulation”, though

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Stop worrying about my AI, says multibillionaire Sam Altman. So we bear the risks and he keeps the money | Chris Stokel-Walker

OpenAI’s CEO seems to want to privatise his company’s huge financial gains while making all of us pay for any negative consequencesTech bros’ messianic streaks can show up in subtle ways. But one of Sam Altman’s flaws is that he often lacks that subtlety. “We believe that the world should accept some bad things happening

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OpenAI announces ‘dots’ agent after scrapping launch of new AI model over safety concerns

Company’s product comes weeks after Meta introduced its own artificially intelligent agent MuseLess than 24 hours after OpenAI announced it would scrap the launch of an artificial intelligence model over safety concerns, the company debuted a whole new suite of AI tools.During its annual showcase for developers in San Francisco on Tuesday, Sam Altman, OpenAI’s

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