NOBEL LAUREATE WARNS AI COULD ERODE HUMAN AGENCY Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa is calling for urgent AI regulation, warning that increasingly autonomous systems could undermine human agency. Ressa says citizens must pressure governments to act and argues regulation is a public safety issue, not a free-speech issue. She also rejected claims that tougher Western rules would hand China an advantage.

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A Nobel Prize-winning pioneer of artificial intelligence is stepping aside from his role leading Google’s work on the technology, as the company faces pressure to keep up in the AI race. Google’s stock was down around 4 percent following the news.

Otto Stern received the Nobel Prize in 1943 for his work on atomic and molecular beams. Ten years earlier, he had been forced to leave Germany and moved to the United States. He received little support during and after the war. In his fifties, he retired to California and lived a private life, spending much of his time enjoying good food and watching films. He died at the age of 81 while watching a film.