AI Safety and Innovation: New Approaches and Global Impacts

Explore the latest advancements in AI safety with OpenAI's 'Deliberative Alignment' and Elon Musk's xAI's ambitious funding boost. Discover how ConfliBERT is transforming conflict event detection and delve into the implications of Europe's groundbreaking AI Act. This episode offers a comprehensive look at the evolving landscape of AI technology and its societal impacts.

Sources:
https://www.marktechpost.com/2024/12/23/openai-researchers-propose-deliberative-alignment-a-training-approach-that-teaches-llms-to-explicitly-reason-through-safety-specifications-before-producing-an-answer/
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/23/elon-musks-xai-lands-billions-in-new-cash-to-fuel-ai-ambitions/
https://www.marktechpost.com/2024/12/23/conflibert-a-domain-specific-language-model-for-political-violence-event-detection-and-classification/
https://apnews.com/article/ai-act-european-union-chatbots-155157e2be2e42d0f1acca33983d8c82

Outline:
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:00:41) OpenAI Researchers Propose ‘Deliberative Alignment’: A Training Approach that Teaches LLMs to Explicitly Reason through Safety Specifications before Producing an Answer
(00:03:54) Elon Musk’s xAI lands $6B in new cash to fuel AI ambitions
(00:06:30) ConfliBERT: A Domain-Specific Language Model for Political Violence Event Detection and Classification
(00:10:15) Europe's AI Act: How does it work and what happens next?