Bill Gates says to prepare for 20 years of 'tumultuous' AI disruption
In a Verge interview, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates discusses the AI era he described in an essay published in late August. He warns of two decades of turbulent disruption.
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Could treating AI as conscious make it more dangerous?
When Anthropic retired Claude Opus 3 in January 2026, it held a 'retirement interview' and then gave the model a blog after it asked for a place to share its musings. IEEE Spectrum uses the experiment, part of Anthropic's research on 'model welfare', to ask whether treating AI as possibly conscious carries its own risks.
Democratic governance of frontier AI, part II: Empowering cyber defenders
In the second part of its series on governing frontier AI, OpenAI sets out a plan to put advanced models in the hands of cyber defenders. The blueprint also calls for stronger safeguards, modernized cybersecurity and sturdier public institutions.