Quick hits: October 2023

This is the warning of industry experts, including Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT producer OpenAI, Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, and Dario Amodei of Anthropic.

‘Mitigating the risk of extinction of Artificial Intelligence should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war’: This is the statement published on the webpage of the Center for AI Safety, an American organization that brings together experts active in the sector. One of the fathers of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, also A US federal court has given Apple the green light to settle with MacBook owners who have had problems with their keyboards.

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supported the call.

Think, for example, of the possible interference in electoral processes, the spread of false news, the creation of news channels that respond to specific disinformation interests. For this reason, we need to prepare ourselves to manage these situations; we have already seen the first signs of problems of this kind in past years with the Cambridge Analytica affair or with the guerrilla tactics of Russian trolls on the web.