AISN #33: Reassessing AI and Biorisk

Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required.

This week, we cover:

1. Consolidation in the corporate AI landscape, as smaller startups join forces with larger funders.

2. Several countries have announced new investments in AI, including Singapore, Canada, and Saudi Arabia.

3. Congress's budget for 2024 provides some but not all of the requested funding for AI policy. The White House's 2025 proposal makes more ambitious requests for AI funding.

4. How will AI affect biological weapons risk? We reexamine this question in light of new experiments from RAND, OpenAI, and others.

AI Startups Seek Support From Large Financial Backers

As AI development demands ever-increasing compute resources, only well-resourced developers can compete at the frontier. In practice, this means that AI startups must either partner with the world's [...]

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Outline:

(00:45) AI Startups Seek Support From Large Financial Backers

(03:47) National AI Investments

(05:16) Federal Spending on AI

(08:35) An Updated Assessment of AI and Biorisk

(15:35) $250K in Prizes: SafeBench Competition Announcement

(16:08) Links

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First published:
April 11th, 2024

Source:
https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/ai-safety-newsletter-33-reassessing

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