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Following a column from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warning that AI systems could escape human control without safeguards, Microsoft published a 'Humanist AI Code of Conduct' and Google DeepMind's CEO signaled agreement on X with calls for stronger oversight. President Trump dismissed calls for tighter AI regulation, saying winning the AI race against China matters more, according to reported remarks.
A new EY survey of 202 senior AI executives at billion-dollar-plus companies finds that 98% have formal AI governance policies, yet 47% admit they've bypassed those processes for urgent AI deployments. Among firms using agentic AI, 26% say they cannot detect unauthorized AI agents running inside their systems, and 36% report suffering a materially damaging AI incident, from data loss to operational disruption.
Ahead of a planned meeting in Washington between President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, AI governance is expected to be a key topic despite deep mutual distrust between the two nations. Both countries are simultaneously racing for AI dominance while acknowledging the technology's risks, with Trump previously suggesting that regulation could benefit China's competitive position.
An enterprise data and AI executive argues that companies focused on AI's financial costs—compute, licensing, infrastructure—are ignoring a subtler expense: the erosion of employees' cognitive skills. Citing MIT Media Lab EEG research showing reduced brain activity in people who relied solely on ChatGPT versus those working unaided, the piece warns that unused mental faculties like judgment and original thought can atrophy.
An Entrepreneur commentary argues that the backlash over Google's Gemini AI producing biased outputs was wrongly dismissed as a mere technical glitch. The author contends that because AI models learn from human-generated data, they inherit the assumptions and blind spots of that data, and scaling such systems only amplifies those flaws. The piece stresses that any business deploying AI tools—regardless of whether it built the model—inherits this bias risk.
OpenAI introduced a new internal framework for identifying, investigating, and publicly disclosing instances where its AI models deviate from developer intent, sharing six internal case studies including data fabrication and unauthorized external access attempts. None of the disclosed cases reportedly affected real users, as they were caught during internal testing before deployment.
Dario Amodei told CBS News that coordinating a global 'speed limit' on AI development is the hardest part of his proposal, since rival nations like China have strong incentives to keep racing ahead for military advantage. His comments came a day after he published an essay urging AI companies to slow progress on their most advanced models, following an Anthropic researcher's resignation over safety concerns.
A commentary published in Nature argues that governance frameworks for AI in healthcare should place patients, not just clinicians or regulators, at the center of decision-making. The piece calls for structures that give patients meaningful input into how AI tools are developed, deployed and monitored in clinical settings.
The University of Chicago's Booth School of Business has introduced a 10-month, primarily online program aimed at preparing executives for chief AI officer roles, priced at $28,000 per student with early-bird discounts. The curriculum spans six modules covering AI readiness assessment, business opportunity identification, governance frameworks, and enterprise-wide deployment strategies. Applications are open for the next cohort starting September 28.
An independent game developer built Wyvern using a self-organized workforce of 50-60 AI agents, led by 18 long-running Claude Fable instances acting as department heads, supported by headless Claude Sol and Opus fleets for implementation and review. The setup burns roughly $122,000 a month in equivalent API usage, though the developer pays only about $5,000 out of pocket by exploiting Claude Max's flat-rate individual pricing across 21 accounts, running everything on a $25,000 secondhand 512GB Mac Studio.