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White House Super Intelligence Force adopts charter and starts a 120-day AI risk report with no new rules
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At its first official meeting on Thursday, the task force agreed to commission a report from the President's science advisers on three areas: cybersecurity and critical infrastructure, biosecurity and dual-use uses, and model control and accountability. Bloomb
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