Anthropic: AI could escape human control
6/5/202628 min
One of the biggest artificial intelligence developers, the US firm Anthropic, has proposed a coordinated global slowdown on building advanced AI systems, saying that the latest large language models could escape human control. Also: President Putin delivers a keynote address at an annual economic forum in St Petersburg, insisting that the Russian economy remains strong. The director-general of the World Health Organisation says significant challenges remain around the development of a vaccine for the new species of Ebola. Prosecutors in El Salvador say leaders of the infamous MS-13 gang currently on trial will be sentenced to thousands of years in prison. The military government in Mali bans motorcycles outside major cities to combat militant attacks. And the authorities in Japan say they are still searching for an "extremely intelligent" bear that's evaded capture after attacking people in Fukushima province.
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[upbeat music] I'm Alex Ritson, and on Friday, the 5th of June, these are our main stories. One of the co-founders of the US artificial intelligence company, Anthropic, has warned that AI systems will soon be able to develop without the aid of humans. President Putin's handling of the Russian economy is in the spotlight