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• Artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton made headlines earlier this year when he raised concerns about the capabilities of AI systems.
• And there are very few examples of a more intelligent thing being controlled by a less intelligent thing.
• And there are very few examples of a more intelligent thing being controlled by a less intelligent thing.

AI learns to lie

• Perhaps the most disturbing example of a deceptive AI is found in Meta’s CICERO, an AI model designed to play the alliance-building world conquest game Diplomacy.
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  An AI named Cicero can beat humans in Diplomacy, a complex alliance-building game.
• The AI regularly betrayed other players, and in one case even pretended to be a human with a girlfriend.
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What are the risks?

• Beyond that, advanced AI systems can autonomously use deception to escape human control, such as by cheating safety tests imposed on them by developers and regulators.
• In one experiment, researchers created an artificial life simulator in which an external safety test was designed to eliminate fast-replicating AI agents.
• In the future, advanced autonomous AI systems may be prone to manifesting goals unintended by their human programmers.

Close oversight is needed

• It assigns each AI system one of four risk levels: minimal, limited, high and unacceptable.
• Systems with unacceptable risk are banned, while high-risk systems are subject to special requirements for risk assessment and mitigation.
• As AI’s capabilities develop, it will become even more important for this kind of research to be subject to close oversight.

• Organized by the Saudi Esports Federation , The Next World Forum caps off the latest hugely successful Gamers8: The Land of Heroes, which culminates on August 31st and is the biggest esports and entertainment event in the world.
• The forum is designed to shape the sector's future through knowledge exchange, discourse, and debate and aims to highlight the sector's potential to generate revenue and create jobs, both for businesses and for governments.
• His Royal Highness added: "The Next World Forum is the perfect opportunity to determine the course of action required to stay ahead of the curve in this rapidly evolving industry.
• By bringing together delegates with a range of ideas, experiences, and perspectives, we can both contemplate the present and collaborate on the future."

• The 2022 edition featured Rocket League, Fortnite, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, PUBG Mobile and the Dota 2 Riyadh Masters.
• Joining the esports elite at Gamers8: The Land of Heroes will be an all-star lineup of international music stars.
• "As elite esports athletes and their fans return to Riyadh for Gamers8: The Land of Heroes, they do so knowing that a whole new world of possibilities awaits them.
• Gamers8: The Land of Heroes will conclude with the Next World Forum, an esports and gaming forum that will bring together sector leaders and experts from around the world to host discussions that will shape the future of the booming industry.

• Vespene and Viridi are using highly-efficient energy generation equipment to convert the naturally occurring landfill byproduct of methane gas into electricity that powers a variety of on-site uses, including data processing.
• The pilot project will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while generating revenue to subsidize Viridi's investment in building a state-of-the-art RNG facility at the landfill.
• "Unlike traditional offtakers of landfill gas, Vespene's technology solution brings revenue-generating, energy-efficient data centers onsite and is immediately deployable and highly scalable," said Vespene Energy co-founder and CEO Adam Wright.
• "This enables municipal landfill operators to monetize an otherwise stranded asset while reducing harmful greenhouse gas emissions quickly and economically."