As OpenAI says it is shifting focus to human impact, Sam Altman took to the Dreamforce stage with Salesforce founder Marc Benioff. AI model failures are inevitable, Altman says, and should be treated as road or airline safety incidents to facilitate an unprecedented global boom in entrepreneurship and prosperity.
Cathie Wood, one of the world’s most famous tech investors, told Australian media that an Anthropic researcher’s warning AI could lead to humanity’s extinction is “ridiculous.” But there is investment opportunity amid the fear generated, she says.
The slump in AI stocks follows calls for a slowdown in advanced AI development from the leaders of Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceXAI.
Leaders in artificial intelligence have called for a slowdown to AI development amid fears the technology could lead to human extinction.
He once mused about how he could become a billionaire. Now he’s worth more than $25 billion.
Amodei made the remarks on CBS Sunday Morning, one day after calling for AI companies to slow down their frontier research.
Wall Street was poised for a massive OpenAI IPO by the end of the year—but the CEO says that’s not happening.
The popular audio microdrama platform is pumping out 200,000 hours of AI-powered, user-generated shows a month—and finding enough hits to believe it is the future of entertainment.
Australian engineer Andrew Tulloch joined Meta last year after founding Thinking Machines Lab with OpenAI’s former CTO. He starts at Anthropic next week.
Anthropic believes the blocked research into biological weapons was suspicious because it was intended to be carried out at a military research institute.