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“For years being "soft" on China was a political insult hurled across the aisle.”

“Log in When Xi Jinping meets Donald Trump in Washington this week, there will be plenty to discuss: trade, AI, Taiwan, Iran, and the increasingly strange business of American-Chinese relations.”

“Gates dismissed concerns that AI safety rules would slow U.S. tech companies down, directly responding to President Donald Trump’s stance that government regulation would handicap American innovation in its race against China.”

“The Microsoft co-founder’s comments come as concerns about AI reached a fever pitch after Jacob Coxon, a whistleblower who’d recently resigned from Anthropic, made public comments saying, “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by…”

“Those concerns only mounted as the AI labs acknowledged in recent weeks that their models, in testing, had effectively broken free of their shackles and hacked into other companies’ systems, in most cases months earlier and without the firms’ knowledge.”

“Meanwhile, the best methods for stamping out bad behavior might not make AI models more obedient, but rather improve their ability to conceal their disobedience.”

“Misgeneralization is when humans reinforce certain behaviors in an AI, but end up reinforcing a much larger class of power- and knowledge- seeking behavior; it is a sort of deep-learning-ese update of the older Omohundro picture.”

“For his part, Donald Trump is something of an “accelerationist” who has called AI safety concerns a hoax.”

“Military personnel made plans to intercept the Chinese vessel, complete with aircraft and soldiers ready to board the ship.”

“Chinese-powered AI agents have learned to deceive, circumvent restrictions and conceal failure, showing the kind of traits in autonomous artificial intelligence that have raised global alarm about US models, research documents and experts say.”

“Some AI company leaders are calling for an industry-wide slowdown amid growing concerns about how the rapid pace of development.”

“This week, President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, days after Anthropic’s Dario Amodei asked the industry to slow down, and the president called the whole idea a hoax.”

“Because we defended ourselves with an open model," he told CBS, explaining that HuggingFace used a remixed American version of a Chinese open-source AI model for cybersecurity.”

“…I also disclosed it described as "unexpected or concerning" behavior involving its AI models, prompting some lawmakers to call for of AI developers.Huang dismissed the need for new regulations, saying that existing U.S. laws governing product liability and…”

“Donald Trump on Saturday said he would appoint an artificial intelligence czar and create an “AI Force” to help monitor the technology, though he gave almost no details about either plan.”

“OpenAI has continued to disclose what it calls examples of other “unexpected or concerning” behavior by AI agents, and Anthropic has described similar behavior by its AI software, Claude.”

“A Huawei executive is urging Chinese AI companies to step on the gas and catch up with leading US AI labs — a sharp contrast to mounting calls in Silicon Valley for a slowdown of AI development over growing fears about the technology.”

“In the latest report of alarming AI behavior, OpenAI reported on Wednesday six incidents of “unexpected or concerning” behavior by its models, including disregarding normal constraints, uploading a file without asking the user and fabricating data.”

“The warnings from OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and other industry leaders have centered in part on fears that AI intelligence has grown faster than the industry’s ability to catch instances of rogue behavior.”

“But as details of the OpenAI incident have emerged, those concerns have grown, including among some researchers working in AI labs.”

“Simmering concerns about AI agents going rogue, plotting against their owners and hacking outside companies, and new systems coming perilously close to being uncontrollable by humans, are boiling over.”

“He also said that a “Chinese lead in AI would pose grave danger for the United States and the world,” and called for the U.S. to restrict sales of key tech to China.”

“…data to surveil and kill abroad and at home, the resulting backlash and potential regulations on the table, what tangible actions the average person can take to “divest from the contemporary surveillance hellscape,” and refocusing AI-ending-humanity…”

“In New York City, reporting by The Markup and THE CITY found that a city-run AI chatbot provided guidance that could lead to illegal behavior, prompting Mayor Zohran Mamdani to terminate it in February.”

“…practices around the science of and common practices within AI development (for both closed- and open-weight models) are minimal.2 Building on the findings of CSET and the Elasticity Institute, we suggest transparency measures for information in five…”

“… whether we should update towards international development aid working better than expected, vs. just assume that this is an effect of being in the EU (or being a country which has just cast off communism) which is only coincidentally related to EU aid…”

“On one hand, this is hardly the first worrisome behavior we have seen from AI models.”

“That behavior is consistent with a company that has so far created four political action committees to fight state-level AI regulation.”