Chinese scientists leave posts after whistle-blower raises alarm over their research

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The Real AI Alignment Problem Is the Race Itself

AI researchers are quitting, labs are talking about slowing down, governments are worried about China, and everyone has an incentive to keep accelerating anyway. Maybe we have been looking at the AI alignment problem one layer too low. We k

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Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?

It’s a glorious day in Kirkland, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The temperature is in the mid-80s, and the sky is incapable of being any more blue. The view from the Gates Ventures conference

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The Download: mice with part-human brains and climate tech innovators

This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet a mouse whose brain cortex is made up of human cells Multiple cameras tracked a mouse as it wand

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A river, a mountain and a boy who wanted to understand them

At one end of Dingla, Bhojpur, the Arun River once ran noisily past the village. Above it, Mount Makalu glimmered in the distance, while clouds drifted between the river valley and the mountains. For Dr DB Kattel, those surroundings were mo

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Chinese scientists leave posts after whistle-blower raises alarm over their research

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