AI Beat Newsletter: AAIA's Global Online Event Series inaugural 4/8/25 event: “AI & Cybersecurity,” and this week’s handpicked stories/reports: An AI Model Has Officially Passed the Turing Test, Three (AI) insights you may have missed from MWC25, DeepMind has detailed all the ways AGI could wreck the world

In today’s newsletter:

• Recent and upcoming chapter events and other events of note (AAIA Global’s 4/8 online event)

• Recent AI news stories that caught our (and Perplexity AI’s!) eye

• Become an AAIA member

AAIA Chapter events and other events of note:

• AAIA Global Online Event Series: AI and Cybersecurity: Navigating the Expanding Threat Landscape

  • Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 8:30AM - 9:30AM PDT

  • The AI revolution brings unprecedented security challenges.  As artificial intelligence systems become more sophisticated and integrated into critical infrastructure, they create vast new "attack surfaces" that hackers and malicious actors are already exploiting. What legal responsibilities do organizations face when deploying AI? How are governments worldwide responding with new cybersecurity mandates?Discover the emerging intersection of AI innovation, security vulnerabilities, and regulatory compliance that every technology professional needs to understand in 2025.

  • Speakers:

    • Scott M. Giordano, Esq., Co-Founder and Partner, The CISO Law Firm PLLC

    • Chuks Onwuneme, Co-Founder, Identities AI

    • Sahil Agarwal, Co-founder and CEO, Enkrypt AI

    • Dian Trabulsy, Attorney, Grace May, LLC

    • Boaz Ashkenazy, CEO and Co-Founder, Augmented AI Labs (moderator)

  • Learn more and register

• Watch recordings of recent online events:

  

  AAIA India Chapter online event:  AI in Healthcare - A Panel Discussion

  

  Charlotte, NC, USA Chapter:  Navigating the IP Frontier: Intellectual Property in the Age of AI

• Microsoft AI Tour in your region/city

  • “Join experts, industry leaders, and technical practitioners to explore the ways AI can drive growth and create lasting value at this free, one-day event.”

  • Of note:

    • Atlanta:  April 8, 2025

    • San Francisco:  April 16, 2025

    • Washington DC:  May 6, 2025

• Save the date:

  • STACKxDays, the premier event for senior developers, presented by the VR/AR Association and the Applied AI Association

    • October 28-30, 2025

    • UC San Diego Park & Market

    • STACKxDays is looking for speakers for three different conference tracks:

      • Technical Talks Main Stage: Dive deep into AI & XR projects, case studies, best practices, and workflows

      • Mindset Stage: Inspire with talks on developer well-being, ethics, personal experiences, and the creative process

      • Workshop Leaders & Demos: Lead hands-on sessions and teach new tech stacks (Workshop spaces available for purchase)

      • Ready to share your knowledge and connect with fellow innovators? Apply to speak

      • Interested in purchasing workshop space or exploring sponsorship opportunities? Let us know in your application!

• View the complete AAIA Events calendar

• Have an event you would like to share with AAIA members? Email details to: [email protected].

AI in business and the enterprise news:

Here’s news that caught our and Perplexity’s attention as notable stories over the last week:

• Three insights you may have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of MWC25 (siliconANGLE, March 27, 2025)

  • AI-powered automation drives enterprise innovation.
    Real-world AI use cases demonstrate tangible impact.
    Next-generation infrastructure accelerates digital transformation.

• DeepMind has detailed all the ways AGI could wreck the world (Ars Technica, April 3, 2025)

  • If today's AI systems are on a path to AGI, we will need new approaches to ensure such a machine doesn't work against human interests.

    Unfortunately, we don't have anything as elegant as Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. Researchers at DeepMind have been working on this problem and have released a new technical paper (PDF) that explains how to develop AGI safely, which you can download at your convenience. …While some in the AI field believe AGI is a pipe dream, the authors of the DeepMind paper project that it could happen by 2030. With that in mind, they aimed to understand the risks of a human-like synthetic intelligence, which they acknowledge could lead to "severe harm."

  • Download the technical paper

• An AI Model Has Officially Passed the Turing Test (h/t Superhuman AI, Futurism, April 2, 2025)

  • “"People were no better than chance at distinguishing humans from GPT-4.5 and LLaMa (with the persona prompt)," wrote lead author Cameron Jones, a researcher at UC San Diego's Language and Cognition Lab, in an X thread about the work. "And 4.5 was even judged to be human significantly more often than actual humans!"”

  • Download the preprint study

• Early evidence shows AI scribes reduce burnout, but without financial improvement (Axios, March 27, 2025)

  • “AI-powered medical transcription tools are alleviating clinician burnout but not yet saving practices money or making care more efficient, according to a report from the Peterson Health Technology Institute.”

• AI Experts Say We’re on the Wrong Path to Achieving Human-Like AI (Gizmodo, March 30, 2025)

  • ““Overall, the responses indicate a cautious yet forward-moving approach: AI researchers prioritize safety, ethical governance, benefit-sharing, and gradual innovation, advocating for collaborative and responsible development rather than a race toward AGI,” the report wrote.”

  • Download the report, “Future of AI Research”

Have a newsworthy story or industry report/insight to share with AAIA members and community? Email details to [email protected].