Oversight

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An AI Company Asked to Slow the Whole Industry Down, the President Called the Danger a Hoax, and Congress Went Home

The Inference, Issue 30: Anthropic's chief executive published a plan to slow the whole industry down and seat outside evaluators inside the company. The President answered that the only guardrail AI needs is him, and called the danger a hoax. The House adjourned without a vote. Three claimants to one decision, and only one left a record anyone can read; meanwhile a Florida school board wrote the week's one finished rule.

Anthropic's Safety Lead Said There Is No Plan to Control Superintelligence. Three Days Later Its CEO Proposed One. Oklahoma Settled Its Google Power Deal in a Recess.

The Inference, Issue 29: Anthropic's alignment science lead said in public that his company has no plan to control a superintelligent AI. Three days later its chief executive proposed slowing the whole industry down and seating outside reviewers inside the company. A US firm used AI to build a worm that could reach a billion phones and told the app's maker, not any US agency. And Oklahoma settled its Google power contract during a recess, on a sealed file.

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