Amodei, Altman and Musk have called for regulation of the artificial intelligence sector. In any other sector, such a call would already have a technical name: ‘cartel’. But when it comes to AI, most commentary merely adds fuel to the fire of fear. Economic analysis, on the other hand, has a more rigorous task

Climate change, AI genocide, doomsday fascism. No sooner have you pulled that jumper out of the wardrobe than the Silicon Valley exiles are travelling the world to explain that the Big Thing is going to wipe us all out

The issues that emerge: complacency, political correctness, caution, untapped potential. And a touch of unease

Behind every apocalypse there often lie very mundane interests. The call for a slowdown and the spread of open-source models

The artificial intelligence company has published a 154-page report listing all the malicious activities carried out over the last eight months on its chatbot. Five cases in which scientists used the tool for “malicious activities” that could facilitate the development of biological weapons 

Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old employee at Anthropic and a researcher who previously worked at OpenAI, has resigned because, in his view, Dario Amodei’s company and its competitors are building something they will not be able to control

The AI race is propelling not only Nvidia but also Caterpillar, lorry drivers, construction firms and logistics companies. Behind ChatGPT lie bulldozers, cables, water and energy: so ‘digital gold’ requires very tangible infrastructure

A major investment round has been finalised: the company’s value has doubled in a year. But Zucman is confident that his wealth tax, which slows down innovation, will be adopted after the next presidential election in 2027. Aghion’s compromise proposal