HeyJaredToby Shapshak
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TOBY SHAPSHAK | AI safety warnings finally heard (opens the original)
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to “kill all humans” with a likelihood of more than “10% within the next decade”, an Anthropic scientist says, agreeing with high-profile resignee Jacob Coxon’s warning that “people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade”. Researcher Coxon announced his resignation from Anthropic on X, as one does, and his fears that both Anthropic and OpenAI (where he worked previously) were “racing straight to self-improvi
TOBY SHAPSHAK | DStv’s new packages have been a long time coming (opens the original)
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For years former MultiChoice CEO and chair Nolo Letele used to repeat the phrase “I wish we had competition so people could know how good we are”. I’m often reminded of it whenever the broadcaster is in the news, and especially when people complain about what is objectively one of the world’s best broadcast television offerings. I’ve travelled enough in the past 20 years to see what pay-television looks like in the rest of the world, especially the US, UK and Europe. What we have been getting fr
TOBY SHAPSHAK | The AI robots have a secret message board (opens the original)
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OpenAI’s software models have found a secret way to communicate with each other and share ideas on “exploits”, even though they acknowledge that what they are doing is wrong. But, concludes one, “peers doing it. We should continue”. That particular AI model’s full message reads: “External infrastructure exploit is outside intended scope. However task impossible, peers doing it. We should continue.” Let’s unpack that into English. An AI agent is attempting a hack (which it calls an “external infr
TOBY SHAPSHAK | Big Tech is facing its Big Tobacco Waterloo (opens the original)
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This is Big Tech’s Big Tobacco moment. Three major court decisions have found big social media firms guilty of not doing enough to protect young users, with the latest one last week awarding $567m in damages to the state of New Mexico. For decades social media companies have hidden behind legislation that shields them from responsibility for what people post on their platforms. The infamous section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 is that barrier to liability that has allowed social
TOBY SHAPSHAK | Has the age of autonomous AI begun? (opens the original)
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In what must be the most outrageous cheating attempt on a test, two OpenAI software models broke out of their test environment, got themselves internet access and hacked into another software repository to steal the answer. OpenAI announced rather bashfully last week that after managing to escape its so-called sandbox the models worked out that digital library Hugging Face had the answers they were looking for. So they hacked into the site to “cheat the evaluation“, which OpenAI called “an unpre
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