The Download: preserving minds and weighing open AI risks

Wire brief

According to public reporting via MIT Technology Review, this is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.

In related context, six wild ideas for perpetuating your mind As we age, we forget most of what we’ve experienced, yet there’s still undeniable continuity: At 30, or 50, or 70, you will still… To preserve that elusive continuity of self, some far-thinking technologists are exploring ways to keep the brain going, even beyond death. Their ideas range from freezing brains in liquid nitrogen to augmenting living ones and uploading our memories to the cloud. Here are six possible paths for keeping your mind going, and how feasible they might be . —Antonio Regalado This story is from the Impossible edition of our print magazine.

Reporting also notes that mIT Technology Review Narrated: Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks? Anthropic recently released a report arguing that a powerful new model released by the Chinese company Z.ai, poses a major cyberattack risk. Its core concern was that it is freely available for anyone to download and modify.

Points still worth watching: The warning was the latest flashpoint in the debate over open frontier AI models. This Silicon News Wire item is a paraphrased brief; full wording remains on the origin page.

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