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Today's newsletter is an eight-minute read. Some of what we cover this month:

• 💬 Meet PERCEY, your AI awareness companion

• 🇫🇷 Reflections from Paris

• 🎞️ A new short film on human work on AI’s threat to human labour

• 🎨 Superintelligence Imagined: “The Great Plan”

And more.

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Today, we’re thrilled to launch 'PERCEY Made Me': an innovative AI awareness campaign, with an interactive web app at its centre. It’s an AI-based chatbot built to engage people and spread awareness of AI’s current abilities to persuade and influence people, in just a few minutes.

Voiced by the legendary Stephen Fry, PERCEY is your personal guide to navigating the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence. With AI threatening to reshape our lives at lightning speed, PERCEY offers a unique, approachable way to:

• Assess your personal AI risk awareness

• Challenge and explore your assumptions about AI and AGI

• Gain insights into AI's potential impact on your future

Whether you're a tech enthusiast, cautious observer, or simply curious about the AI landscape, PERCEY provides a refreshing, humour-infused approach to help counter the reckless narratives Big Tech companies are pushing.

Chat with PERCEY now, and please share widely! You can find PERCEY on X, BlueSky, and Instagram at @PERCEYMadeMe.

Paris was buzzing with much of the AI world last month. The inaugural International Association for Safe & Ethical AI Conference and the French AI Action Summit, among other events, brought together AI experts from academia, industry, government, and civil society.

The IASEAI Conference from 6-7 February convened the largest-yet global gathering focusing on cutting-edge developments in AI safety and ethics, with experts in attendance calling for urgent global action on AI safety - even producing a tangible 10-point call to action for lawmakers, academics, and the public.

The subsequent AI Action Summit from 10-11 February gathered 100+ countries to discuss AI, but ultimately prioritized national investments over meaningful global governance. The US and UK’s refusal to sign the Summit’s resulting declaration was another miss at the opportunity presented for meaningful cooperation.

Be sure to read FLI’s AI Summit Lead Ima Bello’s full read-out of the AI Action Summit here for thorough coverage, key political context, analyses, and more.

We’re excited to present another winning entry from our Superintelligence Imagined creative contest!

This month, we’re featuring Karl von Wendt’s multi-media project, The Great Plan.

As Karl described it, “‘The Great Plan’ is a story about our inability to comprehend the decisions of a superintelligent AI, aimed at a general audience. When the President announces the Great Plan in a speech, the audience is ecstatic. But some doubts remain among those who are tasked with putting it into reality: what are all those new data centers needed for, and why is no one allowed to ask questions about it?”

Watch it below, and take a look at the other winning and runner-up entries here!

We also want to highlight filmmaker Dagan Shani’s new short film, “OBSOLETE: Will AI take your job?”.

With tech company CEOs explicitly referring to the ability for their AI to mass replace human workers, Dagan’s film, exploring implications of AI on the economy and the job market through expert interviews, couldn’t be more timely: