Australia’s new AI Safety Institute has found powerful new artificial intelligence systems are capable of manipulating users, prompting federal minister Andrew Charlton to warn that building safeguards in early is the only way for the country to claim a share of the AI boom.The speech reflected the approach the government set out in its National AI Plan in December, which stepped back from European-style AI legislation in favour of applying existing laws sector by sector, backed by tougher enforcement where needed. The speech followed a run of warnings from within the industry. In June, Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, which overtook OpenAI this year as the world’s most valuable AI company, called for a global freeze on the development of the most powerful AI systems, arguing that humanity risked losing control of the technology. Are on the edge of losing control over technology due to AI ?
