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Congress must not waste the AI policy window
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- Sen. Josh Hawley and California AG Rob Bonta announced se...
Distributing AGI’s wealth worldwide is a very tricky problem
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Transformative AI could supercharge development for the world’s poorest countries, allowing them to achieve in a decade what might otherwise take a century, according to a new report from the World Bank. But tha...
Everything you need to know about the ‘rogue’ AI incidents
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A seemingly endless list of “rogue AI” incidents has dominated AI headlines recently, raising serious questions about accountability, transparency, and companies’ ability to control their products. But unti...
Congress goes quiet as AI safety concerns mount
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GPT-6 Astra might be too powerful to understand or control
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OpenAI claims GPT-6 Astra, launched on Thursday, is “the world’s most intelligent and aligned model.”
But if you look past the benchmark scores and flashy release video, GPT-6 Astra’s system card paints a worrying picture:...
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Transformer managing editor. Previously tech editor at the The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, digital editor at New Statesman, and assistant media editor at the Guardian.
Shakeel is the editor of Transformer, a publication about the power and politics of transformative AI. He was previously a news editor at The Economist.
Economist researching AI's impact on junior hiring and how tasks change at King's College London. Writing the AI Economics Brief (Windfall Trust). Research Manager at ERA Cambridge. Previously: AI policy at Pour Demain, Brussels.
I'm an ex-neuroscientist and current AI reporter at Transformer. When I'm not writing, I play bass, dance, and kiss my cats on the forehead.
Investigating the luxury industry on Dark Luxury. Freelance reporter, former Bloomberg News, New Scientist and British GQ
Tech, policy, politics. Political editor @ The New World, Fellow @ Demos, newsletter @ techtris, PhD researcher @ UCL Laws. Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World.
Senior AI Policy Reporter at Transformer X/Bsky: @vronirwin IG/Threads: @vronwrites LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/veronica-irwin-009266112/ Signal: vronirwin.72 veronica(at)transformernews(dot)ai
writer on AI and ideas for the WSJ, NYT, NY, etc
Research Fellow in AI, Information & News, Reuters Institute, Oxford University | Research Associate, Oxford Internet Institute | Junior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College | Societal impacts of AI, (mis)info, news, democracy | My views etc
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