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Google
Released Frontier Safety Framework, Google’s response to Anthropic’s RSP and OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework.
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OpenAI’s Model Spec Feedback
On May 8th, OpenAI released its Model Spec, which is a sort of charter that describes how its AI models should behave, prioritize between different values, and adhere to rules for safety, and legality. They’ve opened a form to proactively solicit feedback from the public on this document. The Midas Project is glad to see…
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How AI Chatbots Work: What We Know, and What We Don’t
AI chatbots (such as Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT) have already transformed our world. On the surface, they appear remarkably capable of friendly, natural conversations. But below the surface lies sophisticated artificial intelligence driving their abilities, and a great deal of uncertainty about exactly how they work and what they are capable of. In this…
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Are AI companies using copyrighted data?
The current era of training large AI models requires three fundamental requirements: advanced algorithms, advanced computer chips, and a lot of data. This last component has become a sticking point for AI companies in recent years, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google. These companies have essentially hovered up the entire internet in their fight to…
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How can you distinguish human-made content from AI-generated content?
AI-generated content is everywhere on the web. Videos, images, art, writing, and recently even music created by AI have become increasingly prevalent. How will we continue to distinguish real from fake? The short answer is that it’s hard, and there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that certain common features or deficiencies…
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Sign Open Letter on Deepfakes
“Disrupting the Deepfake Supply Chain” is an open letter raising awarneess for the need to criminalize, and prevent the production of, non-consensual and misleading deepfakes. These false images and videos are incredibly harmful and threaten to degrade social trust, damage democracies, and exacerbate sexual harassment faced by women in particular. To read the full open…
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Will AI take my job? How AI automation could impact employment
Exploring the likely impacts of AI on human labor As artificial intelligence continues to make significant progress, many people are beginning to wonder about their own job security. We’ve considered this a fair amount, and our simplest answer is: virtually every job in today’s economy has a significant potential to be automated within the coming…
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What are AI Companions and how could they cause harm?
Here’s What you should know about Replika’s privacy policy. One of the main ways that everyday people use AI today is in the form of “chatbots.” These are AI systems that are fluent in written language and who communicate with the user through a traditional direct messaging interface — if you’ve used OpenAI’s ChatGPT or…
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OpenAI
Quietly scrapped policies allowing public inspection of governance documents, financial statements, and conflict of interest rules.
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OpenAI
Changed their usage policies to remove a ban on using OpenAI products for “military and warfare.”
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