China's spy chief Chen Yixin has outlined six major risks AI poses to China, as a heated debate over AI doom plays out in the West.

As researchers sound grim warnings about AI's catastrophic capabilities, Trump and Xi Jinping have remained laser focused on progress.

New warnings from the artificial-intelligence industry have revived debate over whether advanced AI models could escape human control and threaten humanity.

Jacob Coxon, who resigned over concerns about rapid AI development, said building a superintelligence is like “summoning an alien species.”

The debate around artificial intelligence is ramping up in Washington, with Democratic lawmakers sounding alarms on the dangers they say the technology poses and Republican leaders suggesting those concerns are inflated and secondary to winning the AI race with China.

Asian shares are mixed and U.S. futures have edged lower. Oil prices have gained more than 3%, as worries grow over global oil supplies after Saudi Arabia shuts down a major oil pipeline used to help bypass the Strait of Hormuz.

The House speaker shared his take after CNN’s Jake Tapper said AI leaders “seem terrified” about where artificial intelligence is headed.

The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) published a report calling for a new bill on AI to "address the scale and seriousness" of such threats. "Nowhere in the world, including the UK, has a current legislative and regulatory approach to AI that is fit for purpose," said Alex Sobel MP, the committee's chair.

Newsweek asked several well-known AI assistants whether they think the technology could cause human extinction within the next decade.

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Simmering worries that the technology could wipe out civilization and launch cyberattacks reached a boil inside the office and around the dinner table.

French streaming service Deezer said that AI-generated songs made up more than half of new music uploaded in July, averaging 90,000 tracks a month. It also found that up to 85 per cent of streams of fully AI-generated tracks last year were fraudulent.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown of frontier AI, winning support from Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis — but not everyone.