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AI Safety Concerns & Advancements: Today's Top News

AI firms 'unprepared' for dangers of building human-level systems, report warns

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• The Future of Life Institute warns that AI companies lack credible plans for ensuring safety in creating human-level intellectual performance systems.
• None of the firms on the AI safety index scored higher than a D for "existential safety planning," according to the report by the Future of Life Institute.

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AI Agents: the next big phase of artificial intelligence

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• AI agents are reshaping ways of working.
• The real opportunity with AI lies in businesses achieving large-scale automation.

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Can AI really code? Study maps the roadblocks to autonomous software engineering

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• Researchers have identified challenges of AI in software development and proposed a research agenda to advance the field.
• The study focuses on the feasibility of AI in autonomously coding software.

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Zuckerberg says Meta will build data center the size of Manhattan in latest AI push

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• Meta, under Mark Zuckerberg's leadership, plans to invest heavily in developing artificial intelligence products, including constructing a data center the size of Manhattan.
• The company has been engaging in high-profile deals and offering significant pay packages to AI researchers to accelerate the development of machines capable of surpassing human intelligence, aiming for "super-intelligence" or "artificial general intelligence."

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You're Not Imagining It: AI Is Already Taking Tech Jobs

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• CEOs are acknowledging the impact of AI on jobs and layoffs are increasing.
• Generative AI has led to concerns about its effect on human employment, with layoffs on the rise.

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