Notes

The law that will be born obsolete

On Wednesday, September 16, Geoffrey Hinton walked out of a closed-door meeting at the Capitol and set a deadline for the U.S. Congress: "maybe a year" . A year to install guardrails on systems that…

Regulation

What Estonia Decided Not to Legislate

A software agent gains access to a corporate account. It executes a transfer, accepts the terms of another service, contracts a second system, and triggers damage. No person pressed "confirm" at that…

Agents

The truce among AI owners

In March 2023, a letter circulated asking for a six-month halt to the training of systems more powerful than GPT-4. Tens of thousands of people signed it. Elon Musk was one of them.

Artificial Intelligence

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