2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (751+ words) US government adviser Paul Christiano warns of risks to AI industry as he joins OpenAI’s non-profit foundation OpenAI is not on track to reduce risks of “catastrophic” loss of control to an acceptable level, a member of its non-profit board…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1171+ words) What sounds like the overwrought penultimate episode in a sci-fi series about AI doom is now our reality On Tuesday, a former OpenAI researcher quit his job at Anthropic, warning that “neither company is acting responsibly” and that “the people…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (263+ words) The reported targeting of student activists in Serbia is an example of increased misuse, with serious consequences for the commercial spyware industry The targeting of Serbian activists with advanced spyware (Report, 4 September) is the latest warning in a mounting record…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (641+ words) Plus: Americans think they have it bad with unwanted surveillance. They should visit London Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you after visiting Coney Island in New York…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (696+ words) The breach won’t be the last – or the most dangerous – of its kind. We need an agency capable of full investigations into AI incidents When OpenAI first revealed that its AI agents had autonomously hacked a major real-world company, Hugging…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (474+ words) Matt Clifford forced to stand down amid disquiet from senior MPs over his new full-time job at AI company The chair of the UK government’s “moonshot” science and technology research unit has been forced to stand down after taking a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (466+ words) Senator releases letters from armed forces after reports of location data being used to track US troops in Middle East US military officials say they have disabled advertising trackers on a range of phones and computers, according to letters released…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (690+ words) Astra’s arrival comes days after Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, described AGI as an ‘irrelevant marketing term’ The president of OpenAI, Greg Brockman, has claimed the world has entered a new era of artificial general intelligence after the release of…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (603+ words) Student protesters among those hacked, Share Foundation says, but government denies spying At least 14 people from across Serbian civil society were targeted with advanced spyware earlier this year, the digital rights group Share Foundation has said. The wave of spyware…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1591+ words) We are used to the idea that our fellow humans might intentionally mislead or manipulate us, but the idea that machines can now do the same is deeply unsettling. Researchers are racing to find solutions before it’s too late The…...