Trump and tech leaders agree to voluntary AI safety accord
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Trump and tech leaders agree to voluntary AI safety accord

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 2, 202612 min
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While the White House hosted tech luminaries this week to sign a voluntary agreement on AI safety standards, the Federal Trade Commission opened a broad investigation into AI labs over potential safety risks their products may pose to consumers. Plus, a nearly four-hour documentary on Elon Musk is stirring up controversy over whether social media platforms will run ads for it. We’ll get into it on today’s “Bytes: Week in Review.” Check out our YouTube page to watch more episodes of Tech Bytes.

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Money ultimately decides what gets built, what survives. Money decides what future becomes possible. So change where money goes and who controls it, then you change what becomes possible.

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That's Trinity Tran, Ted Fellow and co-founder of the California Public Banking Alliance and Public Bank LA. A public bank is owned by the people through their local government. And Trinity's spent nearly a decade pushing to make that a reality, from getting LA to pull its money out of a large-scale private bank,

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to helping pass the first-in-the-nation law letting California cities and counties start their own public banks. The reason? Los Angeles just dealt with a devastating wildfire.

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