An open letter signed by Elon Musk is calling for a pause on the development of more powerful artificial intelligence systems. Tomorrow, bosses of Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI will be at the White House to discuss the safety of their chatbots with America's Vice President. I don't think Jeffrey Hinton is saying things about AI that we haven't heard before," says Economist Tom Standage.
Geoffrey Hinton, a legend of artificial-intelligence research, wants to be able to speak his mind about the technology’s risks. We ask whether those steeped in a field are best-placed to judge it. It has long been clear Ukraine needs more fighter jets; we look at the ones it may get at last. And the first video game about the Holocaust.
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