Elections & politics
State & law · entries: 12
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- Axios: executives at OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies are preparing for the public and political backlash after a major AI catastrophe that many insiders expect in the next six to 12 months; OpenAI confirms it runs such preparedness exercisesElections & politics · Cybersecurity · AI safety · axios.com ↗
- The New York Times, citing two sources: Anthropic's AI agents submitted 20 visa applications through a form on the State Department's website; all were incomplete and were not processedCybersecurity · Elections & politics · AI safety · nytimes.com ↗
- OpenAI bans a Russian and an Iranian influence operation that used its models to run false-front think tanks and journalists; it rates the Russian one Category 5 on a six-point scale for the first timeElections & politics · Media & information · Geopolitics & defense · Generative AI · openai.com ↗
- A working paper, “What If Automating AI R&D Triggers an Intelligence Explosion?”, comes out signed by 22 authors, among them Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Andrew Barto, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki and Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark; the lead author is Alan Chan of GovAIScience · Laws & regulation · Elections & politics · Recursive AI self-improvement · governance.ai ↗
- Triedman and Mantzarlis: 56% of Grokipedia articles are basically derivative of English Wikipedia; the rest include 42 citations to the neo-Nazi site Stormfront and 34 to InfoWarsMedia & information · Elections & politics · Wikipedia after AI · arxiv.org ↗
- World Bank: more than 800 million people worldwide cannot officially prove their identityPrivacy & surveillance · Elections & politics · Proof of personhood · blogs.worldbank.org ↗
- Elon Musk's xAI launches Grokipedia, an encyclopedia written by the Grok model, with 885,279 articles at launchMedia & information · Elections & politics · Wikipedia after AI · arxiv.org ↗
- Europol reissues its deepfakes report and removes the estimate of the future share of synthetic content (up to 90% by 2026 in the 2022 version) as coming from an inaccurate sourceMedia & information · Elections & politics · Dead internet theory · europol.europa.eu ↗
- The Cambridge Analytica scandal: data from tens of millions of Facebook profiles used for political advertisingElections & politics · Privacy & surveillance · Microtargeting · privacyinternational.org ↗
- A Reddit user called deepfakes posts videos with swapped faces, and the term enters the languageMedia & information · Privacy & surveillance · Elections & politics · Deepfakes · wordorigins.org ↗
- The first reports based on Snowden's documents about mass surveillance programsPrivacy & surveillance · Elections & politics · Mass surveillance · csmonitor.com ↗
- The first tweet: the start of TwitterMedia & information · Elections & politics · Social networks · guinnessworldrecords.com ↗