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OpenAI wants to address “catastrophic risks” associated with AI.

In their latest blogpost, OpenAI revealed the formation of a preparedness team tasked with tracking, evaluating, forecasting, and protecting against a range of major AI-related issues including: nuclear threats, chemical, biological, radiological threats, autonomous AI replication, human deception by AI, and cybersecurity attacks.

OpenAI acknowledges the transformative potential of advanced AI models for the benefit of humanity but underscores the growing risks they represent.

The preparedness team will be led by Aleksander Madry, originally from MIT's Center for Deployable Machine Learning, and will also establish a "risk-informed development policy" to guide the company's AI model evaluation and monitoring efforts.

OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, has previously emphasized the need to prioritize AI risk mitigation on a global scale, drawing parallels between AI and nuclear weapons.

What will come out of the Preparedness Team? We’ll have to see to find out.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Google Image Search Will Now Show a Photo’s History. Can It Spot Fakes? (WIRED)

Uber begins offering rides in self-driving Waymo cars (CNBC)

China’s plan to judge the safety of generative AI (MIT Technology Review)

AI should cut pensions costs, highlight risks - report (Reuters)

GM’s Cruise Pauses All Driverless Operations After California Crackdown (WSJ)

Graphcore: Nvidia Chip Rival Hopeful May Be up for Sale (Business Insider)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Where are the opportunities for new startups in generative AI? (Medium)

A Crash Course in M&A - by CJ Gustafson (Mostly metrics)

The Big Reset in Seed to Series A Graduation Rates is Real and Permanent (Substack)

Frontier risk and preparedness - To support the safety of highly-capable AI systems, we are developing our approach to catastrophic risk preparedness, including building a Preparedness team and launching a challenge. (OpenAI)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

xlang-ai/OpenAgents: OpenAgents: An Open Platform for Language Agents in the Wild (Github)

AndrewWalsh/openapi-devtools: Effortlessly discover API behaviour with a Chrome extension that automatically generates OpenAPI specifications in real time for any app or website (Github)

eylonmiz/react-agent: The open-source React.js Autonomous LLM Agent (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

The Operational Risks of AI in Large-Scale Biological Attacks: A Red-Team Approach (RAND)

Entangled Preferences: The History and Risks of Reinforcement Learning and Human Feedback (arxiv)

DecodingTrust: A Comprehensive Assessment of Trustworthiness in GPT Models - (Microsoft Research)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Falling behind: postdocs in their thirties tire of putting life on hold (Nature)

Could Ozempic Also Be an Anti-addiction Drug? (The Atlantic)

The Way You Speak Can Reveal Whether You Have Type 2 Diabetes (ScienceAlert)

The physician mental health crisis, explained (Vox)

New Delhi Has World’s Most Toxic Air on Farm Fires and Lack of Wind (Bloomberg)

Roads With the Least Traffic in America (Atlas Obscura)

Wealth in America - 5 answers on what it takes to make it in the US (USA Today)

One Last Bite 😋

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