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Police use facial recognition to scan one million faces in WA trial leading to 122 arrests

Police in Western Australia scanned more than a million faces using facial recognition in surveillance vans over five months, resulting in nine false alerts and 122 arrests, and led officers to engage with 146 registered sex offenders.

Guardian AI·2 Nov→

This US state wants to let AI set up and run an entire business — with only a single human needed

TechRadar AI·2 Nov→

Against Against SURA

A LessWrong post by Scott argues that the Against SURA essay is well-written but lacking on the merits, questioning whether six months would be enough to solve alignment of superintelligences at current capability levels.

LessWrong·1 Nov→

Linus Torvalds says Linux kernel is out of ‘stabilization phase’ and using ‘much healthier model’ for AI contributions

Yet machine-made patches ‘often get rewritten’

The Register AI + ML·1 Nov→

On Evenhandedness

A LessWrong post asks readers to imagine humans as an AI system under safety assessment, weighing test records that include both smallpox eradication and mass literacy as well as the Killing Fields.

LessWrong·1 Nov→

Anthropomorphic vs Biological reasoning for thinking about human analogies for LLM behavior

A LessWrong post distinguishes between what the author calls 'anthropomorphic' and 'biological' reasoning and examines how each is used when drawing human analogies for LLM behavior.

LessWrong·1 Nov→

OpenAI might rebrand its data centers as ‘AI compute campuses’

OpenAI is reportedly considering rebranding its data centers as "AI compute campuses."

TechCrunch AI·1 Nov→

AI can make tech CEOs’ lives easier. What about everyone else?

A TechCrunch podcast segment on Equity discusses why statements from tech CEOs can come across as tone deaf, touching on AI's effect on tech leaders versus everyone else.

TechCrunch AI·1 Nov→

Anthropic updates Claude to stop it from recreating existing video games

Anthropic updated Claude to prevent it from recreating existing video games, though users can still use it to help design original games or games in a given genre.

Engadget AI·1 Nov→

Towards The Autograntor

A writer who has done AI safety grantmaking for the Survival and Flourishing Fund and Lightcone Commons describes the work as hard, citing the breadth of knowledge required, from hardware verification to judging founders.

LessWrong·1 Nov→

Is your chatbot less helpful because it thinks you’re a bad person? — Replicating a blogpost

A LessWrong post replicates an earlier blog experiment testing whether large language models give less helpful answers when they perceive the user as a bad person, running it on newer models including Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Haiku 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6.1 Terra and GPT-6 Luna.

LessWrong·1 Nov→

Judge says xAI must face NAACP lawsuit on data center pollution

A judge ruled that xAI must face a lawsuit brought by the NAACP over pollution from its data center operations in southern Memphis; the suit accuses the company of violating the Clean Air Act.

Engadget AI·1 Nov→