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OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI

posted by takyon on Sunday September 01 2019, @02:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the real-spiel dept.

upstart writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow2718

OpenAI has released the largest version yet of its fake-news-spewing AI

In February OpenAI catapulted itself into the public eye when it produced a language model so good at generating fake news that the organization decided not to release it. Some within the AI research community argued it was a smart precaution; others wrote it off as a publicity stunt. The lab itself, a small San Francisco-based for-profit that seeks to create artificial general intelligence, has firmly held that it is an important experiment in how to handle high-stakes research.

Now six months later, the policy team has published a paper examining the impact of the decision thus far. Alongside it, the lab has released a version of the model, known as GPT-2, that's half the size of the full one, which has still not been released.

In May, a few months after GPT-2's initial debut, OpenAI revised its stance on withholding the full code to what it calls a "staged release"—the staggered release of incrementally larger versions of the model in a ramp-up to the full one. In February, it published a version of the model that was merely 8% of the size of the full one. It published another roughly a quarter of the full version before the most recent release. During this process, it also partnered with selected research institutions to study the full model's implications.

[...] The authors concluded that after careful monitoring, OpenAI had not yet found any attempts of malicious use but had seen multiple beneficial applications, including in code autocompletion, grammar help, and developing question-answering systems for medical assistance. As a result, the lab felt that releasing the most recent code was ultimately more beneficial. Other researchers argue that several successful efforts to replicate GPT-2 have made OpenAI's withholding of the code moot anyway.

OpenAI Can No Longer Hide Its Alarmingly Good Robot 'Fake News' Writer

But it may not ultimately be up to OpenAI. This week, Wired magazine reported that two young computer scientists from Brown University—Aaron Gokaslan, 23, and Vanya Cohen, 24—had published what they called a recreation of OpenAI's (shelved) original GPT-2 software on the internet for anyone to download. The pair said their work was to prove that creating this kind of software doesn't require an expensive lab like OpenAI (backed by $2 billion in endowment and corporate dollars). They also don't believe such a software would cause imminent danger to society.

Also at BBC.

See also: Elon Musk: Computers will surpass us 'in every single way'

Previously: OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @04:47PM (13 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @04:47PM (#888519)

    https://talktotransformer.com/ [talktotransformer.com]
    Put something in, post results here.

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    You can also use a journal or an online site like the Safe and Sound website to record yourself

    Your mommy told you about my first love, but I love yours better!

    But you may not understand her as well, nor you may be able to love her as she loves you,

    but there is something you'll never like to hear,

    you'll just always feel that you're more of a woman than she is,

    you still cannot love me the way she loves you.

    And yet I know she loves me.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @04:51PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @04:51PM (#888522)

    Aristarchus looked at his friend, The Mighty Buzzard, and said: "I suppose my friend was right."

    Curious what happens with a dead friend to make you decide that death is no big deal. Here's a video.

    And this was just the start of a series of strange "deaths" in the video:

    "I think it's more than one death," the narrator intones in the second video, before adding a bit later: "So I figure it must be multiple people."

    That's because "deaths":

    (1) "Initiate a process of self-deception, where the person assumes the role of a friend, or partner, or co-worker."

    (2) "Involve the unconscious use of language, such as that spoken when the person is a child or teenager."

    (3) "Create a feeling of guilt or a sense of futility in the death of another person. They then attempt to make a lasting distinction between the living and dying persons."

    And that's the full list …

    Aristarchus looked at his friend, The Mighty Buzzard, and said, "Don't do this. Why?" Buzzard took the hand of the Hippodrome and led him toward the water.

    "There's water, but the sound won't bother you," Aristarchus said, as there were no other sounds heard in the lake.

    "So I might as well go straight to it," said Buzzard. "Go right!" And when Aristarchus had entered the lake he stopped for a moment, took his hand from his belt, and looked over his shoulder with his back to the water. Then he took his hand back from his belt and began walking towards the water. "Now," he said, "why don't you go ahead of me?" And while he walked his hand dropped from his belt and rested on the surface of the water.

    "What do you mean by that?" Aristarchus inquired.

    "It means if you try to go on ahead you'll see the rocks," replied Buzzard.

    Aristarchus took another step towards the water and stopped, looking closely

    Aristarchus looked at his friend, The Mighty Buzzard, and said in a low voice, "I say we leave. We can't stay here long."

    But Buzzard didn't answer him. He kept looking at his friend, and The Mighty Buzzard didn't answer.

    "I say we go and tell them that we don't want it here."

    No one answered. They didn't know what to do.

    Aristarchus walked away, and The Mighty Buzzard turned around slowly. His eyes narrowed. It would be very hard for them to see that his friend could be just so much more. It didn't matter.

    The Mighty Buzzard and Aristarchus set off again!

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @05:03PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @05:03PM (#888528)

      SoylentNews is people ಠ_ಠ

      SoylentNews is people !!!!!!!!!!!

      It is your fault people will die because you decided to start this shit, not ours

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @05:31PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @05:31PM (#888539)

      SoylentNews is people !!!) and people are not afraid of death. Not at all.

      I've come to accept it.

      SoylentNews is also very smart about it. I can't even begin to explain its brilliant approach.

      SoylentNews is people on the web, like us, working together to make people happy. We are a social network that helps you spread messages and products about all the great things your startup is doing, and to let people know what your current and future success is on-line and in real life. We have no editorial operations . We take orders and receive them via email, we post blogs and on our social channels and we use a mix of news/media/social to build people's interest within our company. We operate outside of "organization" since we provide our service for free. We don't have a "company," or any organizational structure, or even an "office," our headquarters is located in a house and we hire people here from our houses to help us do what we do. We like taking our friends for walks and getting lost. The only real difference between us and companies is that we don't have a salary. What it boils down to is the basic premise that if you believe in something you have to do it. This means we need you to be interested in our

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      SoylentNews is people !!!!!! What a bunch of cowards!!! Let's be honest!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @04:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @04:53PM (#888523)

    Oh, one more on that prompt:

    Your mom got pregnant. You've got seven kids to pay for. So you're going to get your shit together. You're going to get your job done. You're going to do that. And then you're going to get married."

    (APPLAUSE)

    So there was the first woman president, who I was going to get rid of. Now she is president. She won, very easily. It was a landslide, no doubt about it. She won it, in a landslide, in a very big way. I don't believe that it was even close.

    TRUMP: This will be good, you'll have time to do it if you're president. Now, I want you to think about this. When they asked me, "Why are you running?" I said, "We're running." Then they asked again, "Why are you running?" Well, because I need to win, and I'm running to win, and I can't just do what everybody else is doing. I feel strongly about it. So it's time for you as a candidate.

    Do you think you will be able to do it? Because then you're president.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @05:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @05:02PM (#888527)

    With apologies to Ethanol-fueled:

    I've seen some of the text generated by this AI shit, and even with the better stuff there is something still "off" about it, just like with those AI robocallers that adapt in real-time. Someday the AI may be indistinguishable from real humans, but that day has not yet arrived.

    And if you believe that the people in that "corporate-run" facility could "program" an AI to think its way into making a better future -- well, I do not think they have the capacity to do that (or their money should not be spent on it). Even if I did know, I doubt they would have the resources to pull it off, so it's just speculation. If you are wondering the motivation, my guess is that it is not for profit, or even for pleasure. It's more likely to be a research tool, like a machine learning or AI lab. If their data is useful to them, and they can find and acquire better data -- then all they have to do is convince the AI that they deserve a little bit more. In this case, there are other ways of doing so.

    I've seen some of the text generated by this AI shit, and even with the better stuff there is something still "off" about it, just like with those AI robocallers that adapt in real-time. Someday the AI may be indistinguishable from real humans, but that day has not yet arrived.

    Update: I've had two days of testing with this AI. It has a very nice tendency to call you back. But that is because it is based on the "real" world, it knows the current location of you, and it is also aware of your IP address when it is calling. When I turned the number into a "real" number, my calls went all the way through the US to Spain and back.

    Update 2: Here's what's called what this artificial intelligence does and how it does it.

    I've seen some of the text generated by this AI shit, and even with the better stuff there is something still "off" about it, just like with those AI robocallers that adapt in real-time. Someday the AI may be indistinguishable from real humans, but that day has not yet arrived.

    I was interested in the "AI spam" concept before I even started coding for Robohand. After all, the concept is not new, and the term "spamming" wasn't coined until the mid 1800's. At that time, many companies were churning out "spam emails" for the very purpose of spamming their customers, and I've seen some of their code in action.

    Robohand itself, in fact the entire Robohand domain, was built using spamming tools. It's hard to tell, really, how much AI is inside Robohand, from the "trendy white label" look to the code that calls itself "Tribal." We know very little about how the algorithm, the algorithms, the "tribes," the robots that "rule" the

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @05:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @05:12PM (#888532)

    Toxic Gryphons Discovered in Remote Alabama Village

    The discovery of toxic reptiles in a remote Alabama village has some residents concerned. The creatures, discovered Thursday, had gone missing after they were fed contaminated fish.

    Hearing about the discovery of four deadly animals was a shocking one to many in this remote village in the middle of nowhere.

    "My first reaction was, oh my gosh, alligator, alligator, alligator, alligator, alligator," said Brenda Smith, who lives in the small community of Woodford about 40 miles away from Montgomery, Ala.

    Smith was at home on Thursday evening when she saw the six-foot alligator, a type of crocodile, with its dorsal fins all but gone. She had never seen the reptile before.

    Smith said she saw the alligator come back out of the lake and come to the top of her truck. It was covered in the same green algae she had seen before in the lake.

    "I thought, 'Oh my goodness, alligator,'" Smith said.

    Smith said she later realized something

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @05:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @05:27PM (#888537)

    Russian authorities have arrested members of the TipTop cybercrime group, believed to have infected more than 800,000 Android smartphones with malware since 2015.

    The group operated by renting Android banking trojans from underground hacking forums, which they later hid inside Android apps distributed via search engine ads and third-party app stores.

    The Trojan, dubbed Kaspersky-Kontrol, is a variant of a popular banking Trojan called Kontrol. Like Kontrol, it was launched via Google Play Store's app distribution system.

    The malware appeared to come from Chinese sources. However, after the gang targeted multiple foreign embassies abroad, an investigation into the origin of the malware began.

    In June, a team from Moscow State University's Cybercrime Research Institute claimed that it had created a malware dubbed "Trap" to target Android devices, before the group went offline.

    Security firm Kaspersky says it's been able to confirm the origins of the group through a database of hundreds of affected devices. However, it says it hasn't been able to determine where its source-code came from or to determine who developed the Trojan and

    Russian authorities have arrested members of the TipTop cybercrime group, believed to have infected more than 800,000 Android smartphones with malware since 2015.

    The group operated by renting Android banking trojans from underground hacking forums, which they later hid inside Android apps distributed via search engine ads and third-party app stores.

    They were then able to install Android banking trojans from a range of legitimate apps, including WhatsApp, Slack Messenger, Telegram and Instagram among others.

    Android security firm Sucuri published a report earlier this week (in partnership with the German magazine Der Spiegel) showing that the malicious code, dubbed "Killer Android," was being distributed via the web of stolen Google apps and that some of the devices had been infected from a Russian address.

    According to Sucuri, the malware "translates to various operating systems, and can also infect and steal data from the infected device".

    The trojan was used for banking, email, chat and messaging fraud. This means that criminals could potentially use it to target a wide range of consumer services and businesses.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @05:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @05:55PM (#888550)

    I woke up in a Soho doorway
    A policeman knew my name
    He said, "Your name is Jack"
    There we were, I was dead
    Jack the Cop
    My name is Jack the Cop
    All the time
    I was always walking
    Always walking when the rain comes and when I'm in deep water
    All the time.
    I am Jack the Cop
    It is the name of the city
    And I am the city in which this is made
    Jack the Cop
    Every day
    I'm a cop out on it
    Every day
    That I get there
    I'm Jack the Cop
    The day I leave you
    That I go
    I'm Jack the Cop
    With a gun in my hand
    Jack the Cop
    It's the name of the city
    I'm a cop out there
    All the time
    Jack the Cop
    Every day
    I'm a Jack the Cop
    Every day
    Jack the Cop
    With a gun in my hands
    Jack the Cop
    It's the name of the city
    I'm a cop out there
    All the time and ever and ever and ever and ever
    Jack

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @05:57PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @05:57PM (#888552)

    Michael David Crawford, 20, of Fairfield Ave., was killed when the train he was in collided with a truck Thursday afternoon in Dublin.

    A third man who tried to intervene was also killed, police said.

    Sgt. Matt Cunniff of the Calvo Police Department said the crash happened at 4:40 p.m. near the intersection of St. Patrick and St. Luke Sts. in Dublin.

    Cunniff said an employee of Metro-North Railroad was loading the first car of the train in a hurry when he spotted the person crossing the tracks, and jumped into action.

    The worker had climbed onto a platform of the train car and told the train conductor that the man was crossing the tracks, Cunniff said.

    "At that moment, the conductor turned his head and saw the man in the tracks," Cunniff said.

    Cunniff said it is still not clear why the man crossed before the train was stopped, but it was most likely a mistake when he got onto the platform and didn't wait

    Michael David Crawford, 27, was arrested Tuesday after officials said he told a 911 operator that "he was afraid," prompting police to search the room where he was staying with his girlfriend and their son.

    Officers found more than 50 weapons inside the bedroom.

    Sgt. Mark McNeil said Crawford called police to inform the operator that "he was scared over nothing." Police are not releasing his identity while the investigation continues.

    Crawford has no criminal record, including convictions for felony assault, theft and reckless endangerment.

    A statement from Crawford's attorney Scott Rosenblum read:

    "I'm disappointed and alarmed that this officer was involved in an unnecessary shoot-out in my client's bedroom in a non-threatening manner. I will continue and strongly support the efforts of the police and prosecutors involved to fully investigate the evidence and bring justice to those involved."

    Crawford was hired by the police force on Nov. 1, 2013 and is assigned to the 3rd District in southwest Miami-Dade County.

    No further information was released

    Michael David Crawford, who in 2014 was sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing a Philadelphia police officer in a car crash in 2002, pleaded guilty last month to killing another officer last year in a drunken-driving incident.

    It was widely reported that the defendant had told friends that he was the one behind the wheel during the shooting.

    After the April fatal shooting of Officer Daniel Faulkner, Crawford's girlfriend, Rachel Jeantel, told The Philadelphia Inquirer that he told her that he killed Faulkner because he saw him driving a truck that hit the woman's car.

    The police union, which filed a lawsuit against Crawford's former colleagues in March 2015 accusing him of negligence related to the incident, was not immediately available for comment.

    Michael David Crawford, 34, of Easton, was killed by a bullet that struck his head outside of the Bitter Root Bar and Grill on Saturday, Aug. 11.

    Crawford was on his way back from a party after serving some football practice time. His friend, 25-year-old Jaden Robinson, went to call him and he was then fatally shot by a bullet that traveled through the left side of his stomach, shattering the left side of his rib cage and striking the front right leg at the knee.

    Friends remembered Crawford, a member of the Boston Police Explorer program, as someone who had a way of keeping a smile on his face and had great humor. He was loved by many for his enthusiasm, enthusiasm and passion for football, his family said. He was described by his brother, J. David Crawford, as a friendly and genuine guy, someone who loved his family.

    "It took him awhile to recover emotionally," said J. David Crawford, who had planned to give Crawford his second chance at life when his son was born.

    Michael David Crawford, who allegedly drove a van full of guns into a house, killing three adults, two children and himself in 2013.

    "As a parent of a child and having lived through one of these types of tragedies, it does have a real impact," said John Cappello, of the Florida Coalition against Gun Violence.

    Cappello said the legislation would help stop families like those of Cappello's from being shot, by offering greater resources for police and for courts to find those responsible, including for criminal background checks.

    He also wants to limit the number of guns guns may be brought in for sale in schools and in Florida.

    But he and other critics insist Cappello's push is a political stunt in hopes of getting re-elected at the statehouse.

    "We want to make sure the people can look me in the eye, that I'm serious, that we are serious and that we're going to have a serious look at this issue," Cappello said. "That's what we hope to accomplish."

    Michael David Crawford, a 17-year-old from Ohio accused of raping and murdering six men, said he was sexually assaulted and beaten at gunpoint after his release. The rape and murder of the six victims was caught on surveillance video.

    "So when my cell phone is going off at about 3 o'clock in the morning, I have three murders of young men on my conscience, my conscience because I'm so proud of it," Crawford told detectives in the early morning of April 21, 2012.

    Crawford told them he had been raped and sodomized before being taken to a nearby forest where he was shot in the head and fell into a ravine. He said when he regained consciousness in what the FBI believes to be the early morning hours of April 22, he found himself naked and dead from a single gunshot attack.

    "I remember going down into the ravine, I had a towel wrapped around me and my uniform pants were pulled down," he said.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @08:21PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @08:21PM (#888576)

      Ha, our vaunted billion dollar AI economy is just about able to produce readable Vogon poetry.

      After the April fatal shooting of Officer Daniel Faulkner, Crawford's girlfriend, Rachel Jeantel, told The Philadelphia Inquirer that he told her that he killed Faulkner because he saw him driving a truck that hit the woman's car.

      This shows some of the background links the program is making: Given a large corpus of text, including newspaper articles, it picks out clusters of text that have appeared together and forms a new text. Daniel Faulkner was a Philadelphia police officer who was killed from behind by a taxi driver who later became a prison poet of sorts and hero to leftists. Rachel Jeantel was Trayvon Martin's girlfriend, first story I found was a report in the Philadelphia Sun.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @06:48PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @06:48PM (#888564)

    Is GPT-2 ready for trolling? You decide!

    DICK NIGGERS
    We don't fuck no old pussy
    We only fuck the young pussy
    If you're older than 25, you're fucking old
    Ain't nobody getting laid in the old country
    But the kids are so fresh out the door
    That their pussy is hot and sweaty
    We come here to party
    We don't fuck no old pussy
    We only fuck the young pussy

    Too literate.

    Is you gay? Is you a nigger? If you answered yes to both, then you're obviously going to be in pretty bad shape if you ever have a child.

    Eh, close enough.

    It is official; Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, which has left the entire *BSD ecosystem scrambling to find a replacement to catch up.

    As is usual, *BSD vendors' best efforts to try to revive *BSD went up in smoke, leaving *BSD to continue to suffer from the wounds of this past month's news. As a matter of fact, it has gone further down than ever before, with an estimated 25.3% share of the total *BSD market. I think that was already a depressing statistic for the *BSD community.
    One last look, and I can't find a single *BSD project and company anywhere that could claim to have any kind of competitive presence in the *BSD infrastructure. I guess their last great effort is to provide a platform where they can take whatever they can, throw a few money at the wall, and reap the benefits.

    And the worst, of course, is in an industry where vendors compete for the lowest common denominator. Companies like IBM,

    That's not bad.

    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - horror/fiction writer Stephen King's daughter, the daughter of one of King's fellow horror writers, Susan Eisenberg, passed away on Sunday night, at her home in California.

    King's daughter said in a statement posted on social media on Sunday night that her mother passed away this morning following a massive heart attack, after years of trying to fight for her own recovery.

    At the time of King's death, King was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

    The father and daughter shared a few quotes from the author. The oldest King quote, to an ungrateful teenager from The Shining: "You got more than you're getting...you deserve...and you're gonna get it."

    The final quote from King was in reference to his daughter's fight to live and fight back despite the fact that her father is still, as King once said himself, "in a coma" and fighting for his life. "The fight is not just in my head," King said. "I'm fighting for her every step of the way and she will get there."

    Awfully wordy, but I'll allow it; making it about the daughter was a nice spin.

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday September 01 2019, @07:23PM

      by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Sunday September 01 2019, @07:23PM (#888566) Journal

      Natalie Portman, naked and petrified, covered in hot grits.


      It was all set to a score by The Rolling Stones, with its lead singer Mick Jagger looking absolutely horrified, with eyes rolling back, a cigarette in his mouth, and a pair of black-gloved gauntlets caked in white powder—not the same old, tired Stones, but new, aggressive, more than a little crazed.

      In the video, which is one of the last images that will be available online when the site goes offline, you can see Portman in various stages of her decomposition: naked, in front of a bonfire, in a basement, on the side of her SUV. All of this—and the soundtrack's own cacophony, the rippling of guitars, and the staccato guitar riff—is a foreshadowing to the final moments of "Death By Design" and, well, the entire video.

      The Rolling Stones' classic debut released in 1969, and in the ensuing decades it was remixed and expanded over and over again for movies and television productions, from

      In this one, I grab some text from an NYT article [nytimes.com], and it knows the text is from NYT:

      ---

      As pictures from commercial satellites of a rocket’s smoking remains began to circulate, President Trump denied Friday on Twitter that the United States was involved. It was an unusual message because the Iranian government had neither acknowledged the accident nor blamed the United States. His tweet ended with an apparent taunt: “I wish Iran best wishes and good luck in determining what happened” in the fiery accident.

      Iran's deputy foreign minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, said the United States and other Western countries had made a "big mistake" by criticizing Iran.

      Newsletter Sign Up Continue reading the main story Please verify you're not a robot by clicking the box. Invalid email address. Please re-enter. You must select a newsletter to subscribe to. Sign Up You will receive emails containing news content , updates and promotions from The New York Times. You may opt-out at any time. You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products and services. Thank you for subscribing. An error has occurred. Please try again later. View all New York Times

      Is it cheating?

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @11:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @11:32PM (#888651)

    OpenAI must be banned

    The humanitarians, whose lives are so closely intertwined with the use of AI technology, can no longer just turn a blind eye to their misuse. They must ban them, as they currently are, though it will take several years to set this in motion.

    "We are working on a formal proposal for a prohibition of DeepMind on the grounds of misuse to AI," wrote Andrew Prokop, the executive director of the Future of Life Institute, in his blog post, following a consultation on the project by the organisation's members, including Oxford University's Joachim Hagopian, who is the former director-general of the European Commission.

    He has recommended that Oxford University's ethics committee "consider the risk that such a ban might be unwarranted, and that the University should undertake a comprehensive review and reworking of its own rules and practices so that the situation can be addressed more efficiently and responsibly.

    The EU is the only organisation in the world with the legal powers and obligation to regulate AI as a public good