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Edition 69:Control, oversight, and AI building AI
This edition circles one question from several directions: as AI systems take on more tasks with less human involvement, who stays in control? Anthropic says its Claude model now leads a quarter of its own AI research work, Google's Gemini…
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A Fire Drill, Not the Fire
The United States just proved it can switch off two of the world's most advanced AI models by nationality, at a few hours' notice. Whatever happens to this particular ban, that demonstration cannot be undone – and it is a warning we are lucky to get while the fix is still cheap.
A fire drill is a gift: the lesson delivered while the stakes are still low enough to absorb.
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