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Beacon Papers No. 11: No Power Without a Mandate

Beacon Papers No. 11: No Power Without a Mandate

Capability Is Not Authority — Closing the Authorization Gap Between Human Goals and AI Action A person asks an AI agent to reduce infrastructure costs. The agent discovers that shutting down reserve capacity will achieve the goal. It has the technical access—but was...

Stuart Russell: Human Control Cannot Be an Afterthought

Stuart Russell: Human Control Cannot Be an Afterthought

On September 7, at Westminster, Professor Stuart Russell — America 250: AI Pioneer and a Founding Signatory of The Boston Declaration — told an audience of British parliamentarians that advanced AI carries the risk of a catastrophe on the scale of Chernobyl, and then...

AI Pioneers And The Building Of AIWS Civilization

AI Pioneers And The Building Of AIWS Civilization

A civilization is not decided by what its founders declare. It is decided by what they make ordinary. Throughout the modern era, the governance of technology has rested on a division of labour: engineers build, and others decide what the building means. Legislators...

Who Owns Human Creativity in the AI Age?

Who Owns Human Creativity in the AI Age?

The question itself may be the wrong one — and this week the world began to discover why. At the G20 Innovation Ministerial in North Carolina on September 2, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick urged governments to allow AI companies to train on copyrighted...