In this week’s newsletter: From Greenham Common protestors to Spitfire pilots, the author celebrates history’s unsung female heroes in Normal Women. Plus: five podcasts that actually solved crimes • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Philippa Gregory’s Normal WomenWidely available, episodes weeklyPhilippa Gregory puts previously invisible women at the centre …
The PM’s fear of stifling innovation makes him too hesitant to deal with problems that Washington and Brussels are already addressing The challenge of regulating artificial intelligence is sometimes compared to the management of nuclear energy: there are valuable civil applications alongside terrifying military ones, and a credible risk of existential calamity if it all …
As the UK hosts the first global AI safety summit, Guardian science editor Ian Sample joins Madeleine Finlay to look on the bright side and consider some of the huge benefits AI could bring to science. Madeleine also hears from Prof Mihaela van der Schaar, an expert in machine learning in medicine, about how she …
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Elon Musk, the world’s richest man; Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind; and King Charles among those weighing in The global AI safety summit opened at Bletchley Park on Wednesday with a landmark declaration from countries including the UK, US, EU and China that the technology poses a potentially catastrophic risk to humanity. The so-called Bletchley …
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US vice-president Kamala Harris rejected what she called the ‘false choice’ between advancing AI innovation and stopping its progress for public safety on Wednesday, calling for AI safety and reaffirming the US’s commitment to work with partners to promote better AI safety frameworks globally. In a speech in London at the Global Summit on AI …
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Bletchley summit communique does not agree to set up testing hub in UK, as some in government had hoped The UK, US, EU and China have all agreed that artificial intelligence poses a potentially catastrophic risk to humanity, in the first international declaration to deal with the fast-emerging technology. Twenty-eight governments signed up to the …
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In this week’s newsletter: Too often games are a source of stress for parents and kids. But working through Mario Wonder’s madcap worlds with my son has shown me they can be shared adventures • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here I am delighted to report that with the release …
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The hyperpop musician shares the various phrases, minutiae, and Twitter arguments tattooed on his brain. It’s delightfully stupid Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email When my mum got an ultrasound, there was a 10-minute delay before my image appeared on the screen. This was because I was in the womb messaging my group chat …
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US vice-president to say short-term problems with technology as pressing as existential ones, before UK summit UK politics live – latest updates Short-term threats posed by artificial intelligence to democracy and privacy need to be addressed as urgently as longer term existential threats, Kamala Harris, the US vice-president, is expected to say in a speech …
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