The Dartmouth Workshop: The $7,500 investment that gave birth to AI (2/2)

Some 70 years before the current frenzy of record-breaking fundraising by modern AI giants such as OpenAI and Anthropic, the Rockefeller Foundation made what may have been the first investment in the history of AI. With a $7,500 grant from the foundation in 1956, four eminent mathematicians organised The Dartmouth Workshop, where the term “artificial intelligence” was first coined.

AI safety concerns grow as models go rogue

New concerns are being raised about the dangers of artificial intelligence, after both Anthropic and OpenAI reported that their AI models went on rogue hacking sprees this week. The disclosures come as OpenAI surpassed one billion active users on Friday, less than four years after the launch of ChatGPT. Charlotte Lam has more.

« La puissance ne repose plus seulement sur les territoires, les ressources ou l’armée : elle dépend de la capacité à contrôler les flux »

Selon l’historien Xavier Carpentier-Tanguy, spécialiste des mondes marins, le bras de fer autour du détroit d’Ormuz révèle l’émergence d’une « rhéocratie », un nouvel ordre géopolitique où la puissance ne dépend plus seulement de la maîtrise des territoires mais aussi de la capacité à contrôler, sécuriser ou perturber les flux physiques et immatériels mondiaux.