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AI godfathers warn of runaway ‘intelligence explosion’

OpenAI chief scientist also among authors of report on prospect of ‘most consequential technological development in history’

Dan Milmo Global technology editor28 Sept

Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work

Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ monitoring system

Robert Booth UK technology editor28 Sept

Anthropic will not appear at Senate inquiry into AI and datacentres amid fallout from OpenAI hack

Company behind Claude chatbot expected to attend separate Australian government hearing on AI next week

Josh Taylor and Tom McIlroy28 Sept

Australia is run on legacy systems that AI agents can easily exploit, former UN cyber negotiator warns

Federal cabinet will discuss the OpenAI breach on Monday as the AI giant pauses testing of latest models amid fallout

Tom McIlroy Political editor27 Sept

Oxford lets OpenAI train its AI models on Bodleian Library

University staff voice concerns over reputational risk of partnering with company behind ChatGPT

Ethan Penny and Dan Milmo26 Sept

OpenAI says agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users in latest example of rogue activity

Disclosure reveals ⁠new area of privacy risk for the company and illustrates how difficult it is to inventory unauthorized activity tied to its agents

Reuters and Luca Ittimani26 Sept

Trump and Chinese president Xi end summit without major agreement on AI

Xi’s state visit to the US emphasized personal rapport with the US president, rather than substantial agreements to pause their respective countries’ AI arms race

David Smith in Washington25 Sept

The dark art of maths and the AI revolution

Letter: Bev Littlewood reminds us that mathematics has been the prime driver of the rise in AI, in response to an editorial

25 Sept

OpenAI hack on Australian government reveals anxiety at heart of global artificial intelligence dilemma

As the UN warns traditional safeguards are ‘unravelling’, Donald Trump says he will encourage, not restrain, the AI race

Ben Doherty in Sydney25 Sept

It’s going to take more than an email to a public inbox to protect Australians from potential AI doom

OpenAI’s hack of Medicare suggests safeguarding civilisation is the task facing leaders in this extraordinary new era

Tom McIlroy25 Sept

The comedians turning AI anxiety into punchlines: ‘It’s so good, it’ll completely alter our grasp on reality’

Across videos, standup and cartoons, humorists are skewering big tech’s attempt to make AI ubiquitous and inevitable

Matthew Cantor in Los Angeles25 Sept

Launch of UK’s ‘largest AI supercomputer’ delayed by power supply problems

Datacentre hailed by government was supposed to start operating next year but may be held back into mid-2030s

Dan Milmo Global technology editor24 Sept

Parents and carers: how has your view on your children’s use of social media or AI changed?

Is the scrutiny tech firms are facing making you rethink your children’s relationship with technology? Let us know

Guardian community team24 Sept

TikTok drops appeal against £12.7m fine for not keeping under-13s off platform

UK watchdog fined video app in 2023 for failing to enforce minimum age limit and remove underage users

Dan Milmo Global technology editor24 Sept

Nick Clegg plays down fears ‘godlike’ AI could exterminate humanity

Former deputy PM now involved in tech industry says many within sector are ‘winding themselves up into a lather’

Rachel Hall24 Sept

An OpenAI agent infiltrated Medicare – and Australia only found out months later. Here’s what we know so far

Experts say ‘fairly minor’ breach is a portent of things to come and proprietary closed systems like OpenAI are ‘the least of the worries’

Ben Doherty and Stephanie Convery24 Sept

Meta debuts no-camera smart glasses and virtual reality spectacles

The new wearables come at a time of uncertainty for smart glasses, which are facing backlash over privacy concerns

Samuel Gibbs Consumer technology editor24 Sept

‘I miss old Google’: readers tell us how they search the internet in the age of AI

A feature called AI Overviews has been a profound change, and the browsing habits of billions of people are shifting

Blake Montgomery23 Sept

New UK agency to fight ‘information warfare’ from likes of Russia, Burnham tells UN

PM aims to ‘stem poisonous tide’ of disinformation and deepfakes with National Centre for Information Defence

Pippa Crerar in New York23 Sept

UK tech workers: do you want to join a trade union?

We would like to hear from people working in tech industries about their views on joining a union

Guardian community team22 Sept