It would make strategic sense, even from a selfish perspective, for essentially any nation to get more involved in sensible AI regulation, and to get more involved in capturing AI benefits and being the home to AI and AI-enabled economic engines.
It makes especially good sense for the UK, which is facing numerous economic headwinds and yet still has the legacy of its history and of London and DeepMind, of Oxford and Cambridge, and has broken free of the absolutely bonkers regulatory regime that is the European Union. This is their chance, and Sunak is attempting to take it.
Will it end up being yet another capabilities push, or will we get real progress towards safety and alignment and sensible paths forward? The real work on that begins now.
In terms of capabilities, this was what passes for a quiet week.
The most exciting recent capability announcement was the Apple Vision Pro, which didn’t mention AI at all despite the obvious synergies. I review the reviews here.
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