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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. The leaders behind some of the world's most advanced AI systems are warning that the industry has to hit the brakes amid reports the technology went rogue. Dario Amadei, CEO of Anthropic, published a letter saying he believes in AI and that it could bring benefits, but he says it's moving too fast. OpenAI Sam Altman and Elon Musk agreed. Anthropics researcher Jacob Coxon quit, later warning on social media that the people building AI, quote, believe it could kill us by the end of the decade.
I think the concept of building a superintelligence is, well, it's been likened to summoning an alien species. Thinking about it in terms of an alien mind that we don't fully understand is pretty terrifying, even without any concrete scenario.
speaking there on ABC's This Week. Anthropic is the financial supporter of NPR. Lawmakers in Britain are weighing in on President Trump's off-the-cuff call for a united Ireland. Vicki Barker reports Trump met with the Irish president and prime minister during his two-day visit.
Politicians from Northern Ireland's mainly Protestant Unionist parties were as quick to condemn President Trump's comments as their mainly Catholic Republican counterparts were to praise it. A British government spokesman says there's no evidence Northern Ireland's people want unification. Even the Trumpist reform leader, Nigel Farage, has said he disagrees with Trump on this one. And opposition conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, has said the comments are creating unnecessary tension. As the Brits would say, quite. Separatist politicians from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will meet Monday to discuss their vision for full secession from the UK. For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.
Election officials around the country are getting ready to mark National Voter Registration Day this week. NPR's Hansi Lawang reports the first set of registration deadlines for the midterm election is coming up in some parts of the country.
The window starts to close the first weekend of October for registering to vote or updating your registration for the midterm general election. That's in places including Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Then October 5th is a major voter registration deadline for Arizona, Indiana, Ohio and American Samoa. October 5th is also the last day to sign up in the southern states of Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas. If you're already registered, election officials recommend confirming your status and contact information before the deadline by visiting your state's official election website. Officials can remove your name from voter rolls, especially if you recently moved, changed your name, or haven't voted in a while.
Anzila Wong, NPR News.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. A new study finds that suicide-related emergency department visits by kids aged 5 to 17 rose dramatically between 2016 and 2022. The findings, published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, also found half those visits were in poorly resourced hospitals that were not equipped to provide appropriate care. Ampere's Ritu Chatterjee
has more. Researchers used data on nearly 5.4 million pediatric mental health-related visits to emergency departments across the country. Visits for suicidal thoughts and attempts rose by 74%. Dr. Audrey Brewer is a pediatrician at Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago and the main author of the study. She says nearly half of the suicide-related visits were to hospitals that are not specialized for pediatric care, like community hospitals.
And so that can be really concerning, especially where these kids are coming in with more severe mental illness. And there may not be the necessary resources to really meet their needs.
She says these hospitals are also seeing a significant number of kids with depression and substance use disorders. Ritu Chatterjee, NPR News.
Gas and oil prices continue to rise in the U.S. AAA says the average price of gas is $4.31 a gallon around the country.
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