Bronson is mad for it
CHARLES Bronson is sending “Insanity Awards” to fans from behind bars. Britain’s most notorious lag, 70, was recently left devastated when the Parole Board turned down his latest bid for freedom after nearly half a century in prison.
He has been trying to funnel his rage by creating “Certificates of Madness”.
Our exclusive picture of one of the awards shows they come in the form of an arty brown scroll.
One fan gushed online: “These are genius. I’m asking for one for my old man.”
Bronson’s art sells for between £1,000 and £30,000 an image.
Professor Stuart Russell said ministers favoured lighttouch regulation on the AI industry, despite fears that super-intelligent machines could put mankind at risk.
He asked: “How do you maintain power over entities more powerful than you – forever?
“If you don’t have an answer, stop doing the research. If we don’t control our own civilisation, we have no say in whether we continue to exist.”
A former adviser to Downing Street and the White House, he added: “The Foreign Office... talked to a lot of people and they concluded loss of control was a plausible and extremely high-significance outcome.
“And then the Government came out with a regulatory approach that says: ‘Nothing to see here.’”
Prof Russell is a co-author of the most widely used AI textbook and lectures on computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.
He said a system similar to ChatGPT – which can compose prose – could form part of a super-intelligent machine that could not be controlled. The Government has launched the AI Foundation Model Taskforce which it says will “lay the foundations for the safe use” of the tech.