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FTC chair says humans responsible for actions of AI agents

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson says humans who set in motion AI agents are the ones who will be held accountable for their actions.

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Bill Gates says AI companies self-regulating isn’t enough and governments should be involved in monitoringBill Gates called for lawmakers in Washington to regulate the development of artificial intelligence, weeks after the CEOs of some of the nation’s biggest AI labs agreed on the need to slow the pace of AI progress.

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Bill Gates Says AI Companies Can't Police Themselves, Calls for Washington to Mandate SafeguardsGates said the danger is not just limited to a hypothetical future in which artificial intelligence surpasses human capabilities.

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Bill Gates Warns AI Could Lead to 'a Billion Deaths'The cofounder of Microsoft made grave predictions about AI and voiced support for government regulation of the sector.

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GOP committee chair rebuts Sam Altman: ‘I'm never willing to accept bad results’ from AIRep. G.T. Thompson told reporters Monday he disagrees with Altman’s premise.

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Senator Bernie Moreno accuses Anthropic’s Amodei of ‘alarmist’ AI talkSenator Bernie Moreno accuses Anthropic’s Dario Amodei of an ‘alarmist approach’ to AI before the IPO and calls his comments ‘panic-inducing’.

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Calls for AI regulation grow as experts warn of dystopian futureOne of the so-called godfathers of AI argued that it “should be approached like other critical technologies” such as medicine or aviation.

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