Superintelligence or supervillains? What's the true existential risk of AI?

By Democracy Now!

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President Trump and the world’s wealthiest tech executives have signed a set of voluntary safety standards for artificial intelligence. But a prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, says the agreement is a way for the industry to evade accountability under existing cybersecurity laws.

Tags: AI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, Musk, OpenAI, Trump, artificial intelligence, tech

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