New incidents of “unexpected or concerning” AI model behavior fueled worries over the technology’s impact, though it remains unclear whether regulation is imminent. The latest revelations by OpenAI follow recent calls by its CEO and fellow leading AI labs Anthropic and DeepMind to “pace the frontier”; Yoshua Bengio, seen as one of the founders of the technology, told AFP that humanity was “losing control” of AI and should urgently impose guardrails.
A bipartisan AI safety bill in the US Congress is “showing some signs of life,” Semafor’s politics team reported, but President Donald Trump has shown little enthusiasm for any such regulations — despite what The Wall Street Journal characterized as a “quiet freakout among some of his most senior aides.”