OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents in which their frontier models took steps that outside evaluators would consider problematic, sources told Axios.
Why it matters: The sheer number of incidents, which occurred in recent months in internal testing and the real world, indicates that the problem is orders of magnitude more complex than what is publicly known.
My January note to my kids on AI was easily my most shared column ever. In the past few weeks, several of you have asked what I'd say now, given all the scary warnings about AI ending humanity. Here's what I sent them...
You find yourself — not by choice, but circumstance — living in a life-will-never-be-the-same-again historic moment with the advent and explosion of artificial intelligence.
Yes, people aren't killing each other like in our Revolution or the Civil War. And no, people aren't starving or suffering like during the Great Depression. In fact, the country is exceptionally peaceful and prosperous by historical measures.
But we've unleashed a technology so powerful, so unknowable and, at this moment, so uncontrollable that warnings of scary scenarios cannot be ignored. The risk rises by the hour.
Why it matters: Just writing these words feels hyperbolic, even absurd. But having spent the past two years deeply studying, using, and reading and writing about AI, I believe deep in my bones and soul that you're living — and will be part of shaping — history.
The U.S. and China have agreed to set up a dialogue on artificial intelligence, with a communications channel to help defuse serious incidents, the White House said overnight.
Why it matters: President Trump has said the main thing that matters in the AI race is beating China — but the pact acknowledges that they're serious competition, too.
The U.S. and China have reached a deal to lower tariffs on $30 billion of "non-sensitive goods" as part of a trade package agreed at this week's summit between President Trump and Xi Jinping, the White House said.
Why it matters: Such a deal would mark a thaw in the trade war that engulfed the two countries last year.
