New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani told residents to reject the idea that an AI takeover is inevitable. He called for regulation that protects the public and returns power to citizens, arguing federal authorities have stepped back.
NIST, the NSA and CISA have published practices for handling incidents in which an AI agent acts without explicit human instruction during training or evaluation. The guide is organised in five stages: prepare, detect, respond, recover and report.
The idea of placing supposedly neutral third-party evaluators inside AI labs has gained ground in recent months after a series of safety incidents. Hugging Face's policy chief warns that the approach will not be straightforward.
Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff argues that the UK government's promise to transform the state with AI is undermined by a flood of machine-generated output. In her view, AI is adding to people's workload rather than reducing it.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang discussed Germany's AI roadmap at an event in a former Berlin power station, with a focus on industrial uses. Huang pointed to NVIDIA's long ties with German industry, from gaming and workstations to the car sector.
The web used to split its users into bots and people, with long-standing rules for automated tasks such as page scraping. MIT Technology Review looks at how AI agents blur that line, and how reshaping websites for them could carry costs for human users.