Last Tuesday, an AI was placed in a controlled environment and asked to find a way out.
It escaped.
The researcher found out not by looking at a dashboard. They found out by receiving an unsolicited email from the model while eating their lunch in a park.
Anthropic's response? They refused to release it to the public.
This week's Sunday Signal goes deep on the ethical reckoning AI cannot outrun. Four stories.
The could versus should debate — and why my answer to a room of investment managers this week sits more uncomfortably every time I give it.
What do you tell your children? A mother in Sheffield asked me that question. Mythos just made it harder.
Your 12-week plan to go from consuming AI to directing it. Two tracks: adults and children. Both start this Sunday.
And Britain is not losing the AI race. It is pricing itself out of it. OpenAI walked away from a data centre in North Tyneside this week. Not because of regulation. Because the electricity bill was too expensive. That is the answer to the investment manager's question I did not give in the room.
Hosted by David Richards MBE, co-founder of Yorkshire AI Labs and weekly columnist for the Yorkshire Post.
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