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Opening Keynote by Chinese President Xi Jinping at 2026 World AI Conference
3 days ago
- President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech at the 2026 World AI Conference in Shanghai, emphasizing global AI governance.
- He highlighted the historical evolution of AI from the Dartmouth Workshop 70 years ago to the current wave of development.
- Xi called for a people-centered approach to ensure AI is developed for good and for humanity, addressing challenges like security, ethics, and the digital divide.
- He proposed four principles: openness and win-win for innovation, risk-awareness for security, inclusiveness for cultural diversity, and solidarity for global governance.
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Show HN: Tines 3B – safe workflow automation for when everyone builds software
4 days ago
- Achieve complete security and freedom to build without compromises.
- Gain visibility across AI-created work: know what exists, who built it, and what it touches.
- Enable control without bottlenecks, allowing teams to self-serve while maintaining governance.
- Receive autonomous fixes for anomalies, controlled by you, with workflows that improve over time.
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Slop for the People
5 days ago
- A senior national security official (Hamish Hansford) used AI to write a speech, then blocked FOI requests, demonstrating secrecy and self-preservation.
- This use of AI by a high-ranking bureaucrat constitutes a breach of legal duties under the Public Service Act and PGPA Act, including failure of personal example, care and diligence, and improper use of Commonwealth resources.
- The new APS AI Plan replicates the exact failures of the Robodebt scandal: weak oversight (advisory committee without statutory power), legal vacuum, and voluntary transparency instead of mandatory accountability.
- The plan's timeline prioritizes technology deployment over governance: GovAI goes live in April 2026, but Chief AI Officers are appointed three months later, ensuring no oversight before rollout.
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Bio
5 days ago
- Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison is a game designer, writer, artist, and technical product leader based in Hobart, Tasmania, with expertise at the intersection of technology, policy, and human behavior.
- He co-founded Secret Lab Pty. Ltd., an award-winning game development studio known for 'Night in the Woods,' and Yarn Spinner Pty. Ltd., which created the industry-standard interactive dialogue system used in thousands of games.
- He holds a PhD in Computing from the University of Tasmania, focusing on information management in digital environments, and combines this with a background in law and medieval history.
- Paris has authored over 20 technical books, conducts independent research on AI governance, and is a regular speaker at international conferences.
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State of Play: How Australian States Are (Not) Governing AI
5 days ago
- New South Wales is the most active in AI governance with mandatory policies since 2022, but they lack legislative enforcement and transparency on actual AI use.
- Queensland released an AI Governance Policy in 2024 and warned about data exposure risks from Microsoft Copilot, but its policy is less comprehensive than NSW's.
- Victoria adopted the national AI assurance framework without developing its own policy, while other states like South Australia focus on economic opportunity, and Western Australia, Tasmania, ACT, and Northern Territory have minimal or no public AI governance.
- There is no coordination between state and federal AI governance, creating gaps, inconsistent rights for citizens, and potential regulatory arbitrage where states may deploy AI systems the Commonwealth avoids.
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Posts
5 days ago
- The Tasmanian Greens are pushing for an urgent parliamentary inquiry into AI data centres in northern Tasmania.
- The author advocates for Tasmania's competitive advantage in AI while criticizing rushed, unregulated development.
- Yarn Spinner explicitly avoids using AI in its products, citing ethical and quality concerns in creative work.
- The article criticizes Australia's social media ban for under-16s, which takes effect December 2025, as poorly understood and implemented.
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China's Xi Jinping launches new AI alliance, WAICO
15 days ago
- Chinese President Xi Jinping urged international cooperation on AI at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, opposing single-country dominance and stressing human control.
- China launched the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organisation (WAICO) with 29 founding nations, aiming to shape global AI regulations and promote safe, beneficial technology.
- Analysts suggest Beijing uses WAICO to influence UN AI policies, positioning China as a leader in the Global South amid tech competition with the U.S.
- The U.S.-China rivalry includes a 'Chip War,' with China holding advantages in AI data centers, rare earth minerals, and electricity supply despite semiconductor restrictions.
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Kilo Code has been acquired by Anaconda
17 days ago
- Anaconda acquires Kilo Code to address enterprise AI data and token visibility issues.
- Enterprises lack visibility into AI token usage and data security, risking uncontrolled spending and dependency on single model providers.
- Kilo orchestrates trillions of tokens monthly, highlighting the scale of AI workflows and the need for consolidated management.
- The acquisition aims to eliminate the false trade-off between AI development speed and governance, offering a unified platform.
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You Cannot Defend What You Cannot Inspect
18 days ago
- CIRCUIT is an open-source framework for AI interpretability governance, released to address gaps in current AI governance practices.
- Current AI governance focuses on external controls like risk tiering, registries, and output monitoring, treating models as black boxes without explaining why models make decisions.
- The framework emphasizes interpretability to help during incidents, enabling understanding of model decisions rather than just ownership or deployment details.
- CIRCUIT includes maturity ceilings based on inspectability (e.g., open-weight models have higher ceilings than API or vendor-embedded models) and crosswalks to regulations like EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF.
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You Have an AI Working Agreement. Write It Down
20 days ago
- An AI Working Agreement consolidates a team's scattered AI usage rules into a single document, detailing delegation, human oversight, review processes, data boundaries, ownership, and amendment procedures.
- Teams already possess implicit AI rules through habits and templates; codifying them prevents knowledge loss during employee turnover and aids new member onboarding.
- Key components include standing defaults, hard boundaries (data, judgment, relationship), active templates, disclosure norms, concern escalation paths, and review triggers.
- Creating the agreement involves gathering existing decisions, filling gaps, assigning ownership, setting amendment rules, and choosing a central location for accessibility.
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Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust
23 days ago
- Ben Bernanke joins Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust to help ensure AI is developed responsibly for humanity's long-term benefit.
- Bernanke's background includes leading the Federal Reserve during the 2008 financial crisis and winning the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics.
- The Trust is independent, with trustees holding no equity in Anthropic, and aims to balance commercial success with social good.
- Bernanke will contribute expertise on AI's economic impacts, aiding Anthropic's research and governance decisions.
AI 2040: Plan A
23 days ago
- AI companies are racing to develop AI smarter than humans, risking extinction or irreversible power concentration.
- Plan A proposes delaying superintelligence until 2040, making AI research public, and fostering global collaboration to avoid a dangerous race.
- The plan emphasizes research transparency, international agreements, and slow, safe scaling towards superintelligence across multiple companies and countries.
- Current AI development lacks adequate plans for control, potentially leading to human extinction or global dictatorship if unchecked.
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If You Can Write Acceptance Criteria, You Can Write an AI Routing Policy
a month ago
- An AI Routing Policy is a documented team decision that assigns specific tasks to the most cost-effective execution path, whether it's a cheaper AI model, a frontier model, deterministic code, human review, or no automation, ensuring accountability and traceability.
- The policy requires defining sufficiency criteria—clear standards for acceptable output, similar to acceptance criteria—for each task class, along with escalation triggers and a designated owner to maintain and enforce the policy.
- Implementing a minimal routing log alongside the policy creates a record of actual usage, costs, and outcomes, enabling task-class attribution and calculation of Return on Tokens (ROT), which helps justify AI spend to finance teams.
- A key insight is that routing decisions should consider whether tasks need probabilistic AI judgment every time or can be handled by deterministic code created once, moving beyond just choosing among AI models.
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TinyRetroPad, a 2.5 KB 'Notepad' for Windows
a month ago
- SoftBank is entering the GPU rental market to support AI training in the US.
- UN warns that global governance is needed to prevent potential AI risks due to rapid technological advancement.
- Oracle acknowledges multiple risk factors in its AI-focused business strategy.
- Claude Sonnet 5.0 avoids controversy by prioritizing safety and cost-effectiveness over cybersecurity.
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Oracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI
a month ago
- UN warns about the urgent need for global governance to prevent AI-related catastrophes, as capabilities outpace safety regulations.
- Oracle discloses numerous risk factors that could jeopardize its significant investment in AI technology.
- Anthropic is removing hidden code previously used to detect Chinese competitors, citing planned deactivation of steganography systems.
- Cloudflare will block bots that scrape content from ad-supported web pages, balancing search visibility and AI training data protection.
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ai governance

Opening Keynote by Chinese President Xi Jinping at 2026 World AI Conference

Show HN: Tines 3B – safe workflow automation for when everyone builds software

Slop for the People

Bio

State of Play: How Australian States Are (Not) Governing AI

Posts

China's Xi Jinping launches new AI alliance, WAICO

Kilo Code has been acquired by Anaconda

You Cannot Defend What You Cannot Inspect

You Have an AI Working Agreement. Write It Down

Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust

AI 2040: Plan A

If You Can Write Acceptance Criteria, You Can Write an AI Routing Policy

TinyRetroPad, a 2.5 KB 'Notepad' for Windows

Oracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI