Despite what AI companies want you to believe, AGI is not inevitable. The race-to-the-bottom to build it is not inevitable. Losing control of our future is not inevitable. We can build AI that works for humanity, instead of replacing us. This is how 👉 BetterPathFor.ai

Q: You would prefer the human race to endure, right? A: Uuuuuuh... If more people hear the dystopian AI vision or Silicon Valley tech bros , I bet the #1 political issue will become holding them accountable:

There's still a better path for AI - one in which humans are empowered, not replaced by AI. Learn what you can do to help humanity change course: betterpath.ai/

Are these the people you want developing what could be the most transformative technology in human history, with no rules, regulations, or guardrails?

Have you explored our new Global AI Governance hub? ⬇️ Our revamped Global Governance website features: 📜A Treaty Builder tool to help you workshop what an international AI treaty could look like 🌎 A comparative analysis of current AI global governance efforts 📩 And our AI Global Governance Insights newsletter 🔗Check it out now at the link in the replies!

No country wins a race to superintelligence. An AI vastly smarter than us wouldn't be a weapon we control, we'd be handing control over to it. ControlAI's US Director Connor Leahy (@NPCollapse) on why we must ban superintelligence before it is built: controlai.news/p/americas-se…

"If you are a prompt away from lots of knowledge, then how do you actually assess whether kids have learned anything?" -American Federation of Teachers President @rweingarten on the latest FLI Podcast episode. Listen to the full episode at the link below! 📻 ⬇️

Can we get ahead of AI, or will it get ahead of us? This film isn't about that question. It's about the answer. This is how to save the world:

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"The history of legal personhood is largely one of moral progress, where societies slowly recognise the humanity of those they had previously excluded. It would be a bitter irony if this gets co-opted to erode human accountability over the most powerful technology ever created." In a recent blog post, @MarkBrakel, FLI's Global Director of Policy, lays out the dangers of extending legal personhood to AIs 🔗⬇️

FLI's AI & National Security Lead @hamzataq spoke to @shaneharris @TheAtlantic about a recent White House memo "intended to 'accelerate the use of AI across intelligence and warfighting domains in line with American values'", and what it means when a model such as Claude shares misgivings about its use in the military domain. "Claude's expressed misgivings seem exactly like the kind of constraint the memo is designed to override," said Hamza. He said that the conversation in which Claude expressed hesitation "should be seen in the context of Anthropic’s dispute with the Pentagon over guardrails on AI", and that the administration was right to insist that no single company or model should decide how AI is used in war. However, as Hamza notes, the White House memo "treats Claude's trained ethical reasoning, when it surfaces in deployment, as a vendor liability rather than a safety asset." Full article 🔗👇

Offloading Ourselves: An inquiry into staying human in the age of AI. New from Brian Boyd, FLI's U.S. Faith Liaison, for The American Enterprise Institute’s Council on AI Ethics 🔗⬇️

It’s 2035, and AI has gone well. What could a normal day in your life look like? Most popular AI futures are dystopias. Almost no one takes the time to seriously and vividly imagine a future that's actually worth building. So we made a short film following one day in the life of an AI auditor in 2035, in a world radically transformed by AI for the better. Digital twins model how people’s unique physiologies respond to illness. Sensors stop pandemics before they start. AI helps governments actually listen to citizens by synthesizing vast amounts of data into actionable policy suggestions, but humans stay in control and make the final call. If this resonates, please share to spread the word about positive AI futures!

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