Update: The Guardian view on controlling AI: humanity cannot outsource its survival | Editorial

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Keeping people in charge means little if supercomputers determine the evidence, choices and time on which their decisions depend If there were a 10% chance that AI could wipe out humanity, no responsible government would leave its development to companies racing to build it. The report also notes that Yet until recently, that seemed to be the case. The warning was all the more ominous because it was made by a researcher at Anthropic , the trillion-dollar AI company behind the Claude chatbot. The dangers of AI-enabled pandemics or attacks on nuclear systems are real. Countries need not agree on democracy or trade policy to accept this. The US and China is expected to hold, reportedly , their first bilateral AI-safety talks ahead of a planned White House summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. Despite their tech rivalry, neither Washington nor Beijing can make the most advanced AI safe on their own. A US-China settlement won’t be able to say how AI works everywhere. Countries deploying AI must support write the global rulebook. The odds on an extinction event are shortening. This week Anthropic stated that it identified five cases in which attempts were made using its models to support biological weapons development. It banned the accounts. In one case, a platform sent requests rejected by Claude to a rival with weaker safeguards . AI safety, clearly, cannot be that of the least responsible model. Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters s

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