Category: Artificial Intelligence
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When a chatbot is told something that points to a serious crime, who should hear about it? The question breaks the legal framework built for phone companies, because a chatbot is a participant rather than a conduit — and no major jurisdiction has answered it.
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Indian factory workers are being asked to wear head cameras so the footage can train robots to do their jobs. What’s being captured is tacit skill they could never have written into a manual — and it doesn’t exist unless somebody records it.
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Beijing plans to raise national AI computing capacity from about 2,185 exaflops to 9,800 by 2030. The target treats AI as infrastructure rather than software — a bet that the binding constraint is physical. It says nothing about where the electricity comes from.
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Beijing plans to raise national AI computing capacity from about 2,185 exaflops to 9,800 by 2030. The target treats AI as infrastructure rather than software — a bet that the binding constraint is physical. It says nothing about where the electricity comes from.
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Europe started enforcing its AI law on 2 August. Today is the closing date for expressions of interest in forty new posts at the office that has to do the enforcing — a week before the first systemic risk evaluations from frontier developers are due.
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At the G20 innovation ministerial in North Carolina, the world’s largest economies unanimously adopted US-proposed guidelines favouring lighter-touch AI governance. Four weeks earlier, the European Commission had begun enforcing the AI Act. Both things are now true at once, which is the actual state of global AI regulation.
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Nearly two-thirds of surveyed workers say AI has made their output look more skilled than they are. Self-reported competence is weak data — but the perception is what people are managing their careers around.
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China’s internet regulator says a campaign against AI misuse removed more than 5.61 million pieces of content, acted against 49,000 accounts and dealt with 2,400 sites and apps. Enforcement totals like these are published precisely because they cannot be checked.
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The Commerce Secretary says data centres don’t use water. That is true of some designs and false as a general claim — and an EPA proposal would remove the public’s right to comment on their air pollution.
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A congressman says OpenAI is withholding details of the rogue-agent breach. The administration has backed the company against newspapers in court. New York City has banned AI for under-fourteens. Three decisions taken by whoever was standing closest.