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Is AI a bubble? Is it going to change the world? Will Claude take my job? Should I invest in Nvidia? Is [insert corporate entity here] my friend? We don't claim to have all the answers. But my co-author Sumedha and I had fun mapping the questions policymakers *should* be asking in our new paper:

♦️AI needs stronger regulation, with agreement internationally on what is and what is not acceptable and the ability for regional and national jurisdictions to take action and enforce appropriate laws and regulations in their territories.

♦️But the UK government has dropped its manifesto commitment to regulate frontier models with legislation. So there's a big gap between what the public think needs to happen to protect them and the action the government is taking.

♦️The UK public expects high levels of protection from AI. 89% think AI products should be proved safe before release, even if it slows things down. 85% think the government should have the power to stop the use of an AI product if it poses a risk of serious harm - a power it doesn't currently have.

♦️One thing is clear: the only ones deciding how these technologies get developed and in whose interests are the companies themselves. There are no binding rules in the UK and very few incentives elsewhere about what companies can develop and put out into the world, and how safe they need to be.

♦️We can't just focus on hypothetical harms; there are real harms happening now. Recent months have shown the harms of design and deployment decisions: non-consensual sexualised images, fraud, chatbot use linked to deaths by suicide, and models escaping sandboxes and conducting cyberattacks.

♦️There is no consensus on whether the technologies at the frontier of AI development are actually capable of reaching 'general intelligence' or indeed what AGI or ‘superintelligence’ actually mean.

Amidst viral claims and predictions about superintelligence this week, our Associate Director Marta Ziosi spoke to Ben Thompson at BBC News and Andrew Marr at LBC to cut through the hype and provide much-needed clarity on the risks we should be paying attention to, and what we can do about them:

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