The battle to control AI: Who gets to write the rules?
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The battle to control AI: Who gets to write the rules?

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 17, 202621 min
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Over the past week, warnings about the existential threat of AI have reached fever pitch. In an essay backed by Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei called for international cooperation with states like China and for independent safety assessors to be given access to the frontier AI labs. All these warnings have caught the attention of leaders and dignitaries – from President Trump to King Charles – and have started a global conversation about how we should regulate the companies developing these systems. The problem is, no one can agree on how to do it. <p...

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You're sitting in a tiny, tiny green box and all we're hearing about over here is everyone in Silicon Valley worrying about the threat of AI killing people. I don't think if the robot uprising happens, this little soundproof booth is going to save me. But who knows, man, I'll just stay in here and just hope for the best.

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Now, they are cutting off the power to a chunk of our block today to deal with some issue. So I have had to run around like a crazy person before they cut the power off, get the kids' lunches made, get them to school, and now run across town to find my little box of emotion. Well, should we get on with the show? Hello and welcome to Times Tech, where we unpack

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