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MIT Technology Review hosted a live subscriber roundtable on AI existential risk with Will Douglas Heaven and Grace Huckins. Their focus: agents already misbehave in ways monitoring may miss.
UN human rights chief Volker Turk told the Geneva council that advanced AI poses an existential risk and demanded cast-iron safety guarantees. The warning adds institutional weight to the UN and Red Cross push for binding rules on autonomous weapons.
President Trump announced Saturday he will create an AI Force and appoint an AI czar, rejecting researchers' warnings as a hoax. He gave no timeline, budget, or appointee, and left safety oversight to existing law.
Researchers from Stanford University and the California-based Arc Institute have used generative AI to design and synthesize fully functional viruses that do not exist in nature,. The immediate biomedical promise centers on phage therapy.