… Last month a Meta employee who oversees safety and alignment for the company’s AI lab publicly shared a story about an AI agent going rogue on her machine and mass deleting her emails. …
… Altman says he’d love to release a general-purpose version of Codex, but he’s worried about the safety implications. In late January, he says, one of his nontechnical friends asked him to set up OpenClaw, a viral AI coding agent. …
… OpenAI says that the initiative fits into its broader security efforts, including an application security AI agent launched last month known as Codex Security, a cybersecurity grants program that began in 2023, a recent donation to the Linux Foundation to support open source security, and the “Prep… …
… I think we want to be in a movie … like Star Trek, not a James Cameron movie,” Musk said. While Musk has long raised alarms about AI safety, his current firm, xAI, has been criticized by researchers at other AI labs for its “reckless” safety culture. …
Zuckerberg said in a social media post that Meta’s goal is to build AI products that “don't just answer your questions but act as agents that do things for you.” The billionaire added that he is “optimistic that this will support a wave of creativity, entrepreneurship, growth, and health.” Muse Spa… …
… Agentic models were really made possible by chain-of-thought reasoning that came out of the safety community wanting to understand what was going on inside an AI model. And the jump before, reinforcement learning from human feedback, came out of the safety community. …
… Silver says he sees a way to achieve this by placing AI agents inside of simulations. He is cagey about what these simulations might look like, but says the approach would allow agents to learn to achieve goals and collaborate with one another. …
… Users who were close to that pin’s coordinates would then receive a push alert containing detailed information, including photographs, about the agents’ locations and vehicles—information they could use to either organize flash protests or find safe haven. …
… But Lavish has allegedly campaigned against the workers through meetings, flyers, texts, and emails, according to Unite Here organizing director Sarah Jacobson. …
… It's not prioritizing safety, beneficial AI, all of those things. At the same time, he is running an AI company, xAI, that puts very few guardrails on what people can do with those models. They famously have launched AI girlfriends that talk to people in kind of a romantic and sexual manner. …