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The company reportedly requested a full list of attendees from the memorial of the 16-year-old who died by suicide after increasingly confiding in ChatGPT, according to lawyers for his family, who are suing OpenAI. The request covered “all documents relating to memorial services or events in the honour of the decedent including but not limited to any videos or photographs taken, or eulogies given . . . as well as invitation or attendance lists or guestbooks,” the FT reported, citing a document.

The initiative, announced Wednesday by the Future of Life Institute, put together an open letter signed by public figures from Nobel Laureates and national security experts to prominent AI researchers and religious leaders calling for “a prohibition on the development of superintelligence until the technology is reliably safe and controllable, and has public buy-in – which it sorely lacks.”