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Responsible AI for Children: IEEE Delivers a Trusted Safety Formula to Help Protect Kids Online

eriinfo.com5 days ago07 mins

The IEEE Standards Association, the global, consensus-building standards development organization of IEEE – the world’s largest technical professional organization and public charity dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity – today advanced its Responsible AI for Children (RAIC) Certification Program with the first product certified for children’s online safety. As children increasingly engage…

Malaysia begins sending back Rohingya refugees despite safety warnings | Rohingya News

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago09 mins

Malaysia has begun sending nearly 1,500 Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar, describing their return as voluntary despite warnings from the United Nations and rights groups that Myanmar remains unsafe for them. Dozens of buses arrived under police escort at a stadium near the Lumut naval base in northwestern Malaysia on Tuesday, the AFP news agency…

OpenAI scraps rollout of new AI model over safety concerns

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago03 mins

OpenAI will not release its new AI model – GPT-6.1 Astra – due to safety concerns, the ChatGPT-maker confirmed on Tuesday. The AI system – which performs tasks like browsing the web and using apps by itself – “didn’t quite meet the bar” of the company’s standards, Saachi Jain, head of safety systems at OpenAI,…

Nvidia Open Agent Safety Platform to stop AI agents from breaking out

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago06 mins

Nvidia is rolling out a new software platform to allow AI developers to set safeguards for agents and prevent them from breaking out of containment. The release on Monday of Nvidia’s Open Agent Safety Platform comes after companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google disclosed recent incidents in which their artificial intelligence models escaped their…

Africa

Who, CJID Convene African Editors to Develop Road Safety Reporting Guidelines

eriinfo.com4 weeks ago08 mins

Abuja — Three-day forum brings editors and journalists from five African countries together around evidence, reporting practice and safer-road policy. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) will today open a three-day African media forum on road safety in Abuja, bringing together editors, journalists, content creators and road…

Africa

Africa: WHO, CJID Begin Development of Africa’s First Road Safety Media Guidelines

eriinfo.com4 weeks ago010 mins

The region accounts for about one-fifth of global road fatalities despite having only three per cent of the world’s registered vehicles The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) have begun developing Africa’s first road safety media guidelines, aimed at improving how newsrooms across the continent report road crashes…

U.S. proposes exchanging AI safety alerts with China, Bessent says

eriinfo.com4 weeks ago06 mins

HONG KONG — The United States has proposed a new AI safety notification mechanism for President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to consider at their summit in Washington this week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday, amid global concern over whether the world’s two leading AI powers can work together to contain the…

Zuckerberg AI safety comments break with rival labs

eriinfo.com4 weeks ago06 mins

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Carlos Barria/Reuters Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg said competition and liability give AI companies enough reason to act individually on safety, appearing to break from calls by the leaders of top AI firms for a coordinated slowdown in AI development. The comments underscore a split among industry executives and US…

Dashcams expose long-running e-hailing safety crisis

eriinfo.com1 month ago014 mins

Dashcam footage is bringing renewed attention to e-hailing crime, amid calls for stronger identity checks and coordinated policing. (Image created via Gemini) The growing circulation of dashcam footage showing criminal incidents involving e-hailing vehicles in South Africa is exposing a safety crisis that industry representatives say has persisted for years. Over the past few months,…

AI safety researchers warn AI could kill us all this decade

eriinfo.com1 month ago08 mins

Growing numbers of US lawmakers are calling for new rules to govern AI systems after dire warnings from two Anthropic researchers that rapidly progressing AI could lead to the extinction of the human race in the not-too-distant future. Alarm about the potential harm from AI grew this week when Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said he…