The fundamental nature and value of general purpose AI systems are that they can be used for many application areas. We do not think it would meet the goals of safe and beneficial AI to inadvertently encourage providers to turn a blind eye to potential risks. The current framing may inadvertently incentivize an avoidance of active consideration of ways that a general purpose AI system may be misused so that providers do not have sufficient reasons to consider misuse, he says.
Today TIME published a "scoop" about OpenAI's lobbying efforts in 2022 around the EU AI Act. NLW argues that the story is not only not some smoking gun, but is the type of nothingburger that makes people drop out of otherwise important conversations because they're feeling like the media is trying to manipulate their feelings. Before that a new research study reveals some unexpectedly positive attitudes towards AI. Also on The Brief, AI adds $150B to the net worth of the world's richest.
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