Highlights of the Issue: Large Language Models II

Abstract

We continue our focus on AI risks, governance, and safety methods as AI progresses toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). The First International Safety Report is a testament to the extraordinary organizational skills of Yoshua Bengio, who pulled together nearly 100 AI experts around the world to assess the state of AI safety work. In a subsequent issue we publish Bengio's and Tegmark's Singapore Consensus, which takes the First International Safety Report's findings toward actionable policies.

To cover more ground for you, in this issue we begin experimenting with chatbots to produce summaries and critical reviews of significant articles, and using the two Deep Research models by OpenAI and Google Gemini, to produce in-depth reports on important topics, especially lengthy ones, to save your time. Several articles look at private, market-based AI governance mechanisms, as opposed to public one, and the hybrid model proposed by California Senator McNerney, CA Bill SB813.