The Obtain: AI’s self-regulation guarantees, and predicting the climate

One yr in the past, seven main AI corporations—Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI—dedicated with the White Home to a set voluntary commitments on easy methods to develop AI in a protected and reliable manner.

The eight commitments included guarantees to do issues like enhance the testing and transparency round AI methods, and share info on potential harms and dangers.

On the primary anniversary of the voluntary commitments, MIT Know-how Evaluation requested the AI corporations that signed the commitments for particulars on their work thus far. Their replies present that the tech sector has made some welcome progress—with some fairly huge caveats. Learn the complete story.

—Melissa Heikkilä

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Google’s new climate prediction system combines AI with conventional physics

What’s new: Researchers from Google have constructed a brand new climate prediction mannequin that mixes machine studying with extra typical methods, doubtlessly yielding correct forecasts at a fraction of the present price.