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Artificial Intelligence is a key technology that can help us solve major societal challenges such as climate change, energy supply, healthcare, education or logistics. AI can solve specific problems more effectively by supporting us in decision-making, automating solutions and thus scaling them, or discovering completely new solutions. But the use of AI also poses new risks, for example when it comes to surveillance or questions of social justice.

What is our society doing with AI – and what is AI doing to our society? We shed light on this question in our AI and Society Content Hub.

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"Unlimited genius" for all: Altman's naive dream of AI equality

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Study warns: creeping AI development could lead to our 'gradual disempowerment'

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OpenAI and Microsoft may be in trouble

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The Recording Academy has updated its Grammy Awards rules and guidelines for the 2024 Grammys, addressing the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the music industry. Harvey Mason Jr, CEO of the Recording Academy, reveals that AI music and content will be allowed for submission, but awards will only be given to human creators who have made a creative contribution in the appropriate categories. The decision comes after an AI-generated song featuring the voices of "Drake" and "the Weeknd" went viral.

If there's an AI voice singing the song or AI instrumentation, we'll consider it. But in a songwriting-based category, it has to have been written mostly by a human.

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AI expert Mustafa Suleyman, founder of Deepmind and Inflection.ai, argues in his forthcoming book that the Turing Test is outdated. Instead, he proposes a new benchmark focused on "artificial capable intelligence" (ACI), which measures an AI's ability to perform complex tasks independently. His test is to task an AI with generating a $1 million profit from a $100,000 investment through e-commerce. He predicts that within two years, AI will create and sell products autonomously, with significant economic implications.

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Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic will give the UK government access to their AI models for research and security purposes, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced at London Tech Week on Monday. The UK aims to become a global hub for AI safety regulation.

Plans include a global AI security summit and a £100m Foundation Model Taskforce. OpenAI and Anthropic recently established their European headquarters in the UK.

"AI is surely one of the greatest opportunities before us," Sunak said. But the technology needs to be developed and deployed safely, he said, "I know people are concerned."

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UNESCO is weighing in on AI ethics with its own recommendations and tools, including the Readiness Assessment Methodology. It's an ex-ante assessment for governments, companies, and other organizations to design, develop, deploy, and procure AI systems ethically and in accordance with human rights and fundamental freedoms.

OpenAI could take several steps to mitigate some of the identified risks, such as fully disclosing the dataset used to train GPT-4 and ensuring that ChatGPT provides references to support any factual claims it makes in its responses.

 

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OpenAI and Anthropic raise alarm over China's Deepseek in warnings to US government

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Google's new AI mode for search might turn the Web into a World Wide Wasteland

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Anthropic launches Claude 3.7 Sonnet hybrid AI model and Claude Code programming tool

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