16+ hour, 49+ min ago   (846+ words) California lawmakers are calling for emergency legislation and criminal penalties for creators of rogue AI systems after top AI executives publicly claimed that their technology poses existential threats to humanity. After Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei wrote in a Sept....

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (244+ words) Los Angeles Times To the editor: In Anita Chabria's excellent column, professor Stuart Russell spells out how artificial intelligence models "behave in such a way as to preserve their own existence at the expense of humans," and explains why this…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (868+ words) Humans have always had an uneasy relationship with technology. Many times throughout history technological change has been met with suspicion, even outright hostility, as it was in early 19th-century England. That’s when textile workers rebelled against mill owners who were…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1403+ words) Last week, more alarming details were revealed about a recent safety incident involving the company OpenAI, and the unexpected actions taken by an artificial intelligence thingamajig it was testing. I’ll dive into those details in a minute, but the takeaway…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (127+ words) To the editor: One important consideration apparently not included in proposed data center regulations is data center noise (“California lawmakers reach deal in high-stakes fight over regulating data centers,” Aug. 29). In addition to consuming vast amounts of electricity and water…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1338+ words) SACRAMENTO — Long the epicenter of the global tech industry, California is taking more action to shield its children, communities and workers from the threats posed by the very industry that’s become central to the state’s identity and enviable economy. State…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1208+ words) SACRAMENTO — After weeks of intense negotiation, state lawmakers on Friday reached a compromise on legislation to regulate energy use by California’s growing data center industry, action triggered by community anger over the facilities and fears of high utility bills in…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (656+ words) As a longtime Angeleno, I’ve got the same beef with AI as everyone else in this town. I don’t want it stealing stories from writers, voices from actors or trust from audiences. But the condemnation of artificial intelligence has now…...