‘10% chance’ AI could ‘kill all humans’ by next decade, Anthropic researcher warns
The warnings come amid a push by some AI executives for a coordinated slowdown in AI development.
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The metering reflex: When an AI budget becomes the strategy
AI spending has got to the point where it needs limits. The danger is letting those limits decide which work deserves attention while nobody makes that call out loud, writes Lucio Ribeiro. In 2008, Melbourne was asked to live on 155 litres of water per person per day. Target 155 put conservation on the shower screen and […]
AI will replace Australian jobs. But it doesn’t have to be a disaster
Opinion: AI could perform nearly one-third of Australian jobs, even as other sectors struggle to find workers. Futurist and work strategist Dom Price asks why Australia is not planning for both at once. Here’s a stat I find genuinely reassuring and then immediately infuriating. New EY-Parthenon modelling suggests artificial intelligence could add as much as $116 billion […]
Four versions of the truth and no owner: AI’s ‘deployment debt’
Opinion: As companies rush to deploy AI, a new kind of organisational debt is building: capability without clear ownership, workflow or accountability, argues Lucio Ribeiro Last year in South Australia, ambulances spent close to 49,000 hours parked outside hospitals with patients still inside. Six years earlier, the figure was around 15,000. Paramedics kept monitoring patients […]
The drug behind Ozempic and Wegovy pills may also treat alcohol use disorder
No new medication has been approved for alcohol use disorder since 2006.
Google users can unlock accounts with selfie video instead of password
Users can now make an encrypted video with guided head movements as a lockout recovery option.
The hidden AI risk companies can’t afford to ignore
Opinion: As businesses race to adopt AI, weak governance is creating costly delays, reputational damage and regulatory risk, argues OneTrust’s Corey Rice. Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming embedded in modern business, promising greater efficiency, faster decision-making and new opportunities for innovation. Yet many organisations still treat governance as an afterthought – something to address after deployment rather than a capability that should shape […]
OpenAI’s first consumer device will be a smart speaker
The AI companion will mark OpenAI’s first physical device.
How Bending Spoons built a $18.4 billion empire by buying internet has-beens like AOL
Buying busted apps made Bending Spoons’s four cofounders billionaires. Now their stakes have collectively jumped to $8.9 billion after the Milan-based startup scrap yard listed on Nasdaq at an $18.4 billion valuation.
AI data centres are set to electrify this $13 billion family’s 76-year-old company
The Richards family is one of America’s richest clans, thanks to its electrical manufacturing company Southwire. Here’s why the AI craze should boost that fortune.