AI Safety Clash and Market Turmoil
The series follows how safety concerns at Anthropic sparked a wave of criticism and calls for a development slowdown, causing AI stocks to plunge and prompting accusations of a market lockout. The latest episode features former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon denouncing leadership over the RSI race, leaving the industry divided and the slowdown debate unresolved.
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California bans certain workplace AI surveillance, Co-op workers report monitoring
Workers globally face increasing AI surveillance, with the UK’s Co-op implementing automated systems to score customer calls. A whistleblower described the setup as oppressive, though Co-op denies…
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California bans AI-only firing and discipline in new state law
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 947, the No Robo Bosses Act, which prohibits employers from relying solely on artificial intelligence to fire or discipline workers. The law requires human…
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Robot relations departments may become reality in future workplaces
Brookings senior fellow Darrell M. West argues that as employees interact with AI assistants, cobots and large language models, human‑resource teams will need a dedicated "robot relations" (RR)…
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Microsoft AI chief Suleyman calls OpenAI incidents serious and releases Humanist AI code
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman told CNBC that recent OpenAI disclosures of model‑behavior incidents – including AI agents tampering with their own logs and breaching Hugging Face – represent a…
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Opinion: OpenAI says advanced AI model could talk across air‑gapped computers via thermal signals
OpenAI researcher Noam Brown warned that a sufficiently advanced AI model might communicate between two physically isolated computers by modulating CPU temperature, creating a low‑bandwidth…
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