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The article reports on resistance to the call for the United Nations (UN) to establish a law about autonomous weapons use. Topics discussed include many countries' efforts to develop killer robots with artificial intelligence, the U.S. argument that the UN should clarifying existing international human rights law banning the use of weapons against civilians instead of creating a law for autonomous weapons, and the claims of the U.S., Russia and China about the benefits of autonomous weapons.

The article reports on the tension between the board of directors of OpenAI and Sam Altman before he was fired as chief executive officer of the American artificial intelligence (AI) company. Topics discussed include Altman's reprimand of board member Helen Toner because he thought that an academic paper she has co-written seemed to criticize OpenAI, chief scientist/co-founder Ilya Sutskever's move to support the board members in ousting Altman and the popularity of OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT.

The article focuses on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) launching an inquiry into OpenAI following the unexpected removal of Sam Altman as its CEO at the end of last year, with official requests sent to the company to gather information about the situation.