Rishi Sunak has pledged the 100 million pounds on AI safety, the largest amount ever committed to this field by a nation state. Ian echoed those themes in an op-ed for the times and I'm enthusiastic about his appointment. To achieve what we want to achieve here, it's going to take people who can translate society policy and industry. The time is now and we need more people to step up and help.
Entrepreneur and investor Ian Hogarth was recently named Chair of the UK's AI Foundation Model Taskforce. In today's Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads excerpts from Ian's writing on AI going back to 2018 to help us understand the perspective he's bringing to the taskforce and its £100M mission to make AI safer and more aligned. Excerpts from: AI Nationalism (2018) We must slow down the race to God-like AI (April 2023) Taskforce announcement thread and post (June 2023) The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI.
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