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   Hassabis touts AI's climate role in Dublin while warning of agent-driven cyberattacks

   Google DeepMind co-founder and chair Demis Hassabis spoke Wednesday at the International AI Summit in Dublin, outlining AI progress in math and coding and arguing that AI could ultimately help deliver technology to tackle climate change, citing climate and weather modeling, fusion plasma containment, superconductors, batteries and solar materials. He contrasted AI's strength in math, coding, Go and Atari games with physics, chemistry and biology, which he said require real-world loops of creativity, intuition and judgment; AGI, which he had called the "foothills of the singularity" at Google I/O in May, went unmentioned. Per Reuters, Hassabis also called recent cyberattacks launched by AI agents an "early warning," saying damage is limited because systems are not yet strong enough but that the next one to two years could bring a catastrophic incident without more investment in security; Microsoft president Brad Smith called 2026 a wake-up year and urged balanced AI safety laws.

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   Microsoft president: AI is less regulated than milk and washing machines

   Microsoft president Brad Smith told the BBC's Big Boss Interview podcast that AI currently faces fewer safety rules than a domestic washing machine or every carton of milk in a grocery store, calling the technology both a tool and a weapon that urgently needs global safety rules. He called for firms to have "emergency brakes" or kill switches, mandatory incident reports telling victims when a rogue agent breaches their systems, and independent government-approved evaluators to vet high-risk AI products before release. Smith also argued the UK is best placed to lead international rule-making because of its AI Security Institute, and said last month's White House self-regulation pact signed by OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, SpaceX, Meta and Google was a necessary but no longer sufficient step, since irresponsible companies will not comply voluntarily.

   BBC Technology · 🔥 0

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