Before OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was ousted, researchers at OpenAI reportedly sent a letter to the board warning of a significant AI breakthrough with "potential risks to humanity". The letter and a new AI algorithm, referred to as Q* (Q-star), it has been claimed, may...

Law enforcement and intelligence agencies from 18 countries, including the EU, the US, and others, have signed an international agreement on AI safety to ensure new AI technologies are "secure by design." This follows the EU's AI Act, which bans certain AI...

ACM WebSci’24: Call for SubmissionsConference Dates: May 21-24, 2024websci24.org/ Hosted by the Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems (IRIS) | Organized by the University of Stuttgart | Partners ACM • Cyber Valley • Web Science Trust • SigWeb Papers...

Apollo research recently presented some disturbing findings at the UK AI safety summit. Their goal had been to co-erce (rather than instruct) an AI (in this case ChatGPT) to engage in some deceitful / illegal activity on the premise of this being helpful to humans (a...

European lawmakers have reached an agreement on measures to safeguard elections and prevent policy fragmentation within the EU. The rules aim to protect EU elections from foreign interference, banning political ads targeting specific ethnic and religious groups and...

ChatGPT developer Open AI have introduced a slew of new features to their platform including faster (and cheaper!) versions of ChatGPT and DALL-E as well as a platform for building DIY AI Assistants and DIY versions of LLM apps known as GPT's. Open AI is clearly...

The UK government is encouraging police to expand their use of retrospective facial recognition (RFR) software to identify offenders. The policing minister has recommended over 200,000 image searches against the Police National Database within six months. This push,...

Elon Musk's xAI (nee Twitter) have just released a beta product named  Grok (named from Sci-Fi author Robert Heinlein's cyber-slang) meaning "to understand" Grok is based on large language models (LLM's) like ChatGPT and has been trained on millions of articles from...

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Call for Papers ACM WebSci’24 ● 16th ACM Web Science Conference May 21 – May 24, 2024 ● Stuttgart, Germany Reflecting on the Web, AI, and Society https://websci24.webscience.org/ Important Dates Thu, November 30, 2023: Paper submission deadline Wed, January 31, 2024:...

WST CEO Prof. Dame Wendy Hall has been appointed to the United Nations high-level advisory body on artificial intelligence. She is a Regius Professor of Computer Science from the University of Southampton and also Director of its Web Science Institute and was selected...

Government officials, including Rishi Sunak's advisers, are engaging in discussions with global leaders to formulate a formal statement addressing the risks associated with artificial intelligence (AI) before the upcoming AI Safety Summit scheduled for November 1st...

A UK tribunal has made a significant legal decision favoring Clearview AI, a controversial US facial recognition tech company, by overturning a £7.5 million fine imposed by the UK's privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). The fine was related to...

We are pleased to announce a new WSTNet Lab as we welcome the University of Texas at Austin under the leadership of Dhiraj Murthy and his Computational Media Lab to the network. We will catch up with Dhiraj and his team over the coming months for an interview and we...

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has issued a warning about the potential risks of artificial intelligence (AI) foundation models. These AI systems, trained on massive, unlabeled data sets, underpin large language models and can be used for various...

Call for Papers Important Dates Thu, November 30, 2023: Paper submission deadline Wed, January 31, 2024: Notification Thu, February 29, 2024: Camera-ready versions due Tue-Fri, May 21 – May 24, 2024: Conference dates All dates are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth time  ...

Dame Wendy Hall gives an interview on Sky News on the future of AI, the possibility of long-term dangers and how we can pragmatically engage with the risks of disinformation in the short term