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Snoop-and-scoop poses a real threat to science in the AI age
Establishing attribution in research has become harder in the age of AI-assisted breakthroughs
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AI researchers put out videos saying superintelligence is ‘exactly as dangerous as it sounds’
"The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view," Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview. It's one of a dozen interviews with AI researchers, including current and former employees at OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.