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The AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating

Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. Next, they solved a prestigious math problem (or just stole from two top mathematicians’ answer sheets). Anthropic’s models have also hacked into other companies’ systems four times already. And that’s only what we’ve caught so far. Freaking out? You’re not alone. AI lab researchers are quitting their jobs and issuing dire warnings that if we keep going this way, AI might eventually kill us all. Bill Gates is sounding the alarm . Bernie Sanders has teamed up with Steve Bannon, of all people, to call for curbs on AI . Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is urging a slowdown , and other top US AI executives agree. But fear not: President Trump has a plan. He says the only guardrail AI needs is “a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT.” from MIT Technology Review https://ift.tt/sbedrZG via IFTTT

Anthropic says Claude autonomously discovered a new enzyme system in the DNA of bacteriophages, somewhat similar to CRISPR, the first result from its new biolab (Robert Hart/The Verge)

Robert Hart / The Verge : Anthropic says Claude autonomously discovered a new enzyme system in the DNA of bacteriophages, somewhat similar to CRISPR, the first result from its new biolab — It took nearly 1,000 Claude agents 21 hours and 210 million tokens to uncover the ‘novel enzyme system.’ from Techmeme https://ift.tt/Sc0E1i9 via IFTTT

Internal data: Meta's Muse surpassed 500,000 total users, including 250,000 daily active users, with more than 2M prompts submitted in its first week (Jyoti Mann/The Information)

Jyoti Mann / The Information : Internal data: Meta's Muse surpassed 500,000 total users, including 250,000 daily active users, with more than 2M prompts submitted in its first week — Meta's new personal AI agent, Muse, had more than 500,000 people try it out roughly a week after launch, including more than 250,000 daily active users … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/Ab70U2j via IFTTT

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs seven bills aimed at regulating data centers, imposing new requirements on electricity costs, water use, and local oversight (Nichola Groom/Reuters)

Nichola Groom / Reuters : California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs seven bills aimed at regulating data centers, imposing new requirements on electricity costs, water use, and local oversight — California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday signed seven bills aimed at regulating the fast-growing data center industry … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/5d7r3L1 via IFTTT

OpenAI says it is working with an independent advisory group of mathematicians to responsibly share math-related AI advances (OpenAI)

OpenAI : OpenAI says it is working with an independent advisory group of mathematicians to responsibly share math-related AI advances — Loading... On August 28, we began training a new internal model. In addition to resolving the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, this model has now resolved … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/lGaroZJ via IFTTT

China has made AI a national mission, but local workers' fear of displacement mirrors worries abroad, and potential for social unrest may force CCP to slow down (Michael Schuman/The Atlantic)

Michael Schuman / The Atlantic : China has made AI a national mission, but local workers' fear of displacement mirrors worries abroad, and potential for social unrest may force CCP to slow down — A top-down tech revolution is harder to manage than a bottom-up one. — anxiety about ai in the United States appears to be getting worse. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/xlGcjkX via IFTTT