OpenAI cancels the October release of GPT-6.1 Astra

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Twenty-two researchers published a paper saying that AI which builds AI could squeeze years of progress into months. The authors include three Turing Award winners and senior people at OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft.

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Cambridge (CASP), OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, What if automating AI R&D triggers an intelligence explosion?

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Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) argue that everyone on Earth dies if anyone builds a superintelligence with anything like today's methods.

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Soares & Yudkowsky, Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares

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Researchers such as Timnit Gebru and Melanie Mitchell think the extinction frame is wrong, and some of them think it does damage.

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The critics, Melanie Mitchell, Timnit Gebru, Emily M. Bender, Angelina McMillan-Major

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