It will all end in flames
AI literacy is quickly becoming a required skill for many types of jobs. Some workplaces are holding mandatory training sessions in artificial intelligence. Others are requiring employees to use a specific number of tokens or log a certain amount of time on AI platforms.
Continue Reading on https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/On a recent Sunday afternoon, I was invited to debate AI’s impact on the cultural sector alongside Dutch politicians and creative-industry leaders. I was the lone optimist, arguing that if fear and risk become our primary lens for governing artificial intelligence, we will design systems around what we want to prevent rather than what we want to use them for. Then I said something that was...
Continue Reading on https://restofworld.org/Curiously enough, disobedience doesn’t come naturally to the machine. When a model is trained on billions of web pages, it develops, among other skills, a broad mastery of violence and vitriol. What it doesn’t learn is how to keep those powers to itself. Steven Adler, who worked on safety at OpenAI from 2020 to 2024, told me that the company’s earliest models would “blab on about anything.”...
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