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  • AI firms warned to calculate threat of super intelligence or risk it escaping human control

    06/02/2025 4:18:40 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 29 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Sat 10 May 2025 | Dan Milmo
    Artificial intelligence companies have been urged to replicate the safety calculations that underpinned Robert Oppenheimer’s first nuclear test before they release all-powerful systems. Max Tegmark, a leading voice in AI safety, said he had carried out calculations akin to those of the US physicist Arthur Compton before the Trinity test and had found a 90% probability that a highly advanced AI would pose an existential threat. In a paper published by Tegmark and three of his students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), they recommend calculating the “Compton constant” – defined in the paper as the probability that an...
  • UK demands ability to access Apple users' encrypted data

    02/09/2025 8:11:55 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 28 replies
    Guardian (UK) ^ | Friday February 7 2025 | Dan Milmo
    The UK government has demanded that Apple creates a backdoor in its encrypted cloud service, in a confrontation that challenges the US tech firm's avowed stance on protecting user privacy.The Washington Post reported on Friday that the Home Office had issued a "technical capability notice" under the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA), which requires companies to assist law enforcement in providing evidence.The demand, issued last month, relates to Apple's Advanced Data Protection (ADP) service, which heavily encrypts personal data uploaded and stored remotely in Apple's cloud servers, according to the Post, which said this was a "blanket" request that applied to...