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A new public database lists all the ways AI could go wrong (MIT Technology Review)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Wed, 08/14/2024 - 09:58AI companies promised to self-regulate one year ago. What’s changed?
On July 21, 2023, seven leading AI companies—Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI—committed with the White House to a set of eight voluntary commitments on how to develop AI in a safe and trustworthy way. These included promises to do things like improve the testing and transparency around AI systems, and share information on potential harms and risks. On the first anniversary of the voluntary commitments, the tech sector has made some welcome progress, with big caveats. Companies are doing more to pursue technical fixes such as red-teaming (
Google, Amazon and the problem with Big Tech’s climate claims
Amazon recently trumpeted that it had purchased enough clean electricity to cover the energy demands of all the offices, data centers, grocery stores, and warehouses across its global operations, seven years ahead of its sustainability target. That news closely followed Google’s acknowledgment that the soaring energy demands of its AI operations helped ratchet up its corpor