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Eighteen countries have signed an agreement on AI safety, based on the principle that it should be secure by design.

The Guidelines for Secure AI System Development, led by the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre and developed with the U.S.’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, are touted as the first global agreement of their kind.

They’re aimed mainly at providers of AI systems that are using models hosted by an organization, or that are using external application programming interfaces. The aim is to help developers make sure that cybersecurity is baked in as an essential pre-condition of AI system safety and integral to the development process, from the start and throughout.

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If you’re asked to imagine a person from North America or a woman from Venezuela, what do they look like? If you give an AI-powered imaging program the same prompts, odds are the software will generate stereotypical responses.

A “person” will usually be male and light-skinned.

Continue reading “AI imaging software generates a gallery of stereotypes, say Univ. of Washington researchers” »

Guardrails AI companies add to their products to prevent them from causing harm “aren’t enough” to control AI capabilities that could endanger humanity within five to ten years, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Axios’ Mike Allen on Tuesday.

The big picture: Interviewed at Axios’ AI+ Summit in Washington, D.C., Schmidt compared the development of AI to the introduction of nuclear weapons at the end of the Second World War.

Since the explosive launch of ChatGPT, there has been a prevailing fear among workers that they will be unable to compete against artificial intelligence, leading to mass unemployment.

In fact, the European Central Bank’s research predicted that AI will actually create jobs and that any reports suggesting otherwise “may be greatly exaggerated”

After assessing nine years of data gathered across 16 European countries, the ECB found that low and medium-skill jobs were largely unaffected by booming technology, meanwhile, opportunities for younger and high-skilled workers actually increased rather than vanished.

Continue reading “AI won’t steal your job—but it might cut your paycheck, Europe’s central bank says” »

Washington is laying down rules for the use of seemingly mundane AI that could, in fact, be incredibly dangerous.

Between fancy global summits, OpenAI’s boardroom drama and rumoured technical breakthroughs, the world has recently been paying close attention to the frontiers of AI research.

More AI tools are popping up to advance features of the popular generators that are already available, and the latest one is blowing people’s minds.

The AI research company, Runway lets you beef up your generative AI images with its new Motion Brush that’s a part of its latest update.

This week’s COP28 meetings in Dubai show how fossil-fuel companies might be able to contribute to climate progress, and what will happen if they don’t.

The United Arab Emirates is one of the world’s largest oil producers.

Amazon Q, currently available for contact centers, will be integrated to other AWS services soon.

Amazon’s cloud business AWS launched a chat tool called Amazon Q, where businesses can ask questions specific to their companies.

Amazon Q can work with any of the models found on Amazon Bedrock, AWS’s repository of AI models, which includes Meta’s Llama 2 and Anthropic’s Claude 2. The company said customers who use Q often choose which model works best for them; connect to the Bedrock API for the model; use that to learn their data, policies, and workflow; and then deploy Amazon Q.

Continue reading “Amazon’s Q AI assistant lets users ask questions about their company’s data” »

The co-founder of website builder Wix is embracing generative AI, and he’s not too worried that it might destroy the business models of the web.

Wix CEO Avishai Abrahami is embracing generative AI and thinks the business models of the web can survive it.