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The University After AI

A new paper provides a fascinating economic analysis of how AI disrupts the role, function, and value of universities and offers 10 proposals to help them survive in the age of AI | Edition #324

Opinion

For years, our most vivid fears about artificial intelligence came straight out of science fiction: The computer develops desires of its own and turns against its human creators, pursuing and destroying them. Recent news from the leading AI labs makes clear that the reality, while less cinematic, is perhaps more disturbing. The machine does not need to have its own consciousness and desires to be utterly deadly.

Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered.

You had a lot of questions about the recent claims that humanity is facing an existential risk from AI. We had a go at answering a few.

Venezuela nears deal to tap disputed $4bn gold reserve

Agreement would shift gold from London to New York and enable interim government of Delcy Rodríguez to access funding

Flash floods can strike without warning

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The Secret Truth is Corporate America is Moving Too Slow on AI. Some of it is Caution and Some is Terrible Recruitment

The case for slowing AI down got turbocharged last week when Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon publicly resigned citing AI’s potential to end humanity. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei then posted a nearly 4,000 word essay arguing for an AI slowdown. In a rare bout of unity, Sam Altman, Elon Musk and others quickly endorsed the idea of slowing down. Despite these calls, government intervention to slow down AI developments looks unlikely for now.

Chair of the Taiwan Stock Exchange on the index’s near future

Nick Gordon here. Sherman Lin, chair of the Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation, took a little while to get going when I talked to him on a Zoom call over the summer. But he got animated when I asked him what makes Taiwan’s stock market different from, say, exchanges in Singapore and Hong Kong.

China Worries About a Different Kind of AI Risk

Kyle Chan is a fellow at the Brookings Institution and an expert on Chinese technology development and industrial policy, and the author of the industry newsletter "High Capacity."

China's Concerns Lie in a Different Kind of AI Risk

Kyle Chan is a fellow at the Brookings Institution and an expert on Chinese technology development and industrial policy, as well as the author of the industry newsletter "High Capacity."

Opinion

Recent reports of rogue artificial intelligence agents and warnings of human extinction quickly turned our dalliance with AI into a doomsday nightmare. One recent renegade from the bowels of AI research shared predictions of superintelligent, self-improving AI agents destroying mankind within a decade.

Yen sinks after Bank of Japan raises rates to highest level since 1995

Hawkish comments by BoJ governor fail to arrest renewed slide in currency after borrowing costs lifted to 1.25%

AI Is Creating Security Nightmares

Box's Aaron Levie told Business Insider that AI means cybersecurity is "one of the hottest, if not the hottest, job categories."