Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, and other tech leaders are urging the US government to make screening of synthetic DNA orders a legal requirement. AI systems already outperform PhD-level virologists on lab procedures, the signatories warn, raising the risk of misuse for biological weapons.<br /> The article AI can now coach amateur virologists, and top tech leaders want Congress to [...]
In Beijing’s Zhongguancun district, the dense grid of universities and start-ups that likes to bill itself as China’s Silicon Valley, a small bar has found a neat way to distil the country’s artificial-intelligence boom into something you can actually drink. The AGI Bar, opened last summer by an independent developer named Song De, does not […]<br /> This story continues at The Next [...]
OpenAI suspects a billionaire-backed conspiracy against the company - and is fighting back in court.<br /> The article OpenAI alleges advocacy groups may be funded by competitors worth billions appeared first on THE DECODER. [...]