🚨 U.S. Must Address AI Security Risks, Apple Tests AI for Ad Optimization, TikTok Eyes Instagram-like Photo App
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U.S. Must Act Quickly to Avoid Risks From AI, Report Says. The U.S. government must move “quickly and decisively” to avert substantial national security risks stemming from artificial intelligence (AI) which could, in the worst case, cause an “extinction-level threat to the human species,” says a report commissioned by the U.S. government published on Monday. By Billy Perrigo via Time
𝕏: Exclusive: a report commissioned by the U.S. government says advanced AI could pose an "extinction-level threat to the human species" and calls for urgent, sweeping new regulations - Billy Perrigo (@billyperrigo)
Apple has begun testing an AI-powered ad product similar to Google's Performance Max as it looks to supercharge its $7 billion ad business. Apple is testing a new AI-powered tool for optimizing App Store ad campaigns. The tool mimics Google's Performance Max and Meta's Advantage+, automating ad placement. Experts said an expansion of this tool could lead to new ad placements across Apple's properties. By Lara O'Reilly via Business Insider
𝕏: Apple is finally using their AI prowess to make a better iPhone? Nope. $AAPL "is testing an advertising product powered by AI for use inside of the App Store as it looks to boost its ad business... The product automatically decides where to place the ads in the App Store" - Jerry Capital (@JerryCap)
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Code suggests that TikTok could be building an app for photos. After rivaling music streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple music with TikTok Music, ByteDance might be looking at creating an Instagram competitor named TikTok Photos, code found in the TikTok app suggests. As spotted by The SpAndroid blog, TikTok’s APK file — an installable file format for Android — contains references and icons to a new app named TikTok Photos. By Ivan Mehta via TechCrunch
Among the A.I. Doomsayers. Katja Grace's apartment, in West Berkeley, is in an old machinist's factory, with pitched roofs and windows at odd angles. It has terra-cotta floors and no central heating, which can create the impression that you've stepped out of the California sunshine and into a duskier place, somewhere long ago or far away. Grace, the lead researcher at a nonprofit called A.I. Impacts, describes her job as “thinking about whether A.I. will destroy the world.” She spends her time writing theoretical papers and blog posts on complicated decisions related to a burgeoning subfield known as A.I. safety. By Andrew Marantz via The New Yorker
𝕏: “'I’m generally pro-A.I. and against slowing down innovation,' Robin Hanson, an economist who has had friendly debates with the doomers for years, told me. 'I want our civilization to continue to grow and do spectacular things.'” - Robin Hanson (@robinhanson)
Putting AI into the hands of people with problems to solve. As Media Lab students in 2010, Karthik Dinakar SM '12, PhD '17 and Birago Jones SM '12 teamed up for a class project to build a tool that would help content moderation teams at companies like Twitter (now X) and YouTube. The project generated a huge amount of excitement, and the researchers were invited to give a demonstration at a cyberbullying summit at the White House — they just had to get the thing working. By Zach Winn via MIT
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