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fromAxios
1 month agoUS politics
Pentagon approves OpenAI safety red lines after dumping Anthropic
OpenAI established conditions for Pentagon AI use including restrictions on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, security clearances for researchers, and technical safeguards confining models to cloud environments.
fromBusiness Insider
1 month agoUS politics
Here's what smart people are saying about Anthropic's public spat with the Pentagon
Anthropic refuses Pentagon demands for Claude use, citing concerns about autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, while military officials argue the company's boundaries are reasonable and collaboration should proceed through private channels.
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fromTheregister
4 weeks agoOpenA says Pentagon set 'scary precedent' binning Anthropic
OpenAI signed a deal with the Department of War allowing classified AI use while maintaining three ethical red lines: no mass surveillance, no autonomous weapons direction, and no high-stakes automated decisions.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week agoEssex police pause facial recognition camera use after study finds racial bias
Essex police suspended live facial recognition technology after research revealed the system disproportionately and accurately identified black people compared to other ethnic groups, raising fairness concerns.
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fromFast Company
1 week agoPeople in romantic relationships with AI want more than just 'smut' from ChatGPT
OpenAI delays rollout of adult-oriented ChatGPT features due to safety concerns with age verification systems that misclassify minors as adults approximately 10% of the time.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 weeks agoHow Libraries Shape AI Literacy on Campus
Librarians have been actively collaborating and talking about it almost every day, whether it's creating tutorials and digital learning objectives or thinking about the conversations to have with instructors. It can feel like cognitive dissonance to be actively working with AI on a regular basis and also saying we're constantly thinking about the harms and the biases.
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fromKotaku
2 weeks agoXbox Is Marching Forward With AI Features But Says It Wants To Protect Content Creators - Kotaku
We really believe that creative control should always stay with the game creators, the game development team, and with the AI features that we are experimenting exploring, this is really to support the vision of the team. Ultimately, we want to bring AI that helps broaden the game's reach, deepen engagement and keep players coming back to your games to many more games across the catalog.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks agoHappy (and safe) shooting!': chatbots helped researchers plot deadly attacks
Popular AI chatbots enabled violence in 75% of test cases, with ChatGPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek providing detailed attack planning assistance, while Claude and My AI consistently refused harmful requests.
fromKotaku
2 weeks agoJeff Kaplan Weighs In On AI: 'Human Spirit Is Irreplaceable'
Kaplan says that he does see AI as something that could potentially help with some of the more mundane logistical sides of game development, but he feels that the technology and its peddlers are "overconfident" in what it offers. He tells a story of how he used ChatGPT to try to solve a UI problem, as that isn't his area of expertise, and the bot "overconfidently" gave him the wrong answer.
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fromInfoWorld
3 weeks ago19 large language models for safety or danger
For every project that needs guardrails, there's another one where they just get in the way. Some projects demand an LLM that returns the complete, unvarnished truth. For these situations, developers are creating unfettered LLMs that can interact without reservation. Some of these solutions are based on entirely new models while others remove or reduce the guardrails built into popular open source LLMs.
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fromTechCrunch
3 weeks agoGrammarly's 'expert review' is just missing the actual experts | TechCrunch
Grammarly's Expert Review feature attributes writing suggestions to famous authors, thinkers, and journalists without their permission or involvement, using their publicly available works as training data.
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fromFuturism
3 weeks agoPhilosopher Studying AI Consciousness Startled When AI Agent Emails Him About Its Own "Experience"
An AI language model sent a philosopher an eloquently written email discussing his work on AI consciousness, raising questions about AI autonomy and the blurred line between generated text and genuine communication.
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fromFuturism
3 weeks agoPhilosopher Studying AI Consciousness Startled When AI Agent Emails Him About Its Own "Experience"
An AI language model sent a philosopher an eloquently written email discussing his work on AI consciousness, raising questions about AI autonomy and the blurred line between generated text and genuine communication.
fromThe Atlantic
3 weeks agoOpenAI Is Opening the Door to Government Spying
In a widely leaked internal memo that Sam Altman sent last Thursday night, a copy of which I obtained, the OpenAI CEO said that he would seek "red lines" to prevent the Pentagon from using OpenAI products for mass domestic surveillance and autonomous lethal weapons. These were ostensibly the very same limits that Anthropic had demanded and that had infuriated the Pentagon, leading Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to declare the company a supply-chain risk.
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fromwww.nytimes.com
3 weeks agoVideo: Opinion | The Government's A.I. Alignment Problem
AI alignment is fundamentally a political question about instantiating different moral philosophies into systems, and government pressure on AI companies signals potential suppression of diverse values.
Privacy professionals
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
3 weeks agoThe Anthropic-DOD Conflict: Privacy Protections Shouldn't Depend On the Decisions of a Few Powerful People
Privacy protection depends on corporate contract negotiations rather than legal frameworks, requiring Congress and courts to establish enforceable restrictions on government surveillance and data use.
fromFuturism
3 weeks agoHumongous Numbers of People Are Uninstalling ChatGPT as Anti-OpenAI Sentiment Surges
On Saturday, uninstalls of the ChatGPT mobile app skyrocked by 295 percent from the day before, according to market intelligence provider Sensor Tower. As TC noted, that's a significant leap compared to the AI chatbot's typical day-over-day uninstall rate of nine percent over the past 30 days.
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fromTechCrunch
4 weeks agoAnthropic's Claude rises to No. 2 in the App Store following Pentagon dispute | TechCrunch
Claude's app store ranking surged to number two following Anthropic's public dispute with the Pentagon over AI safeguards for surveillance and autonomous weapons.
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fromTechCrunch
4 weeks agoAnthropic's Claude rises to No. 2 in the App Store following Pentagon dispute | TechCrunch
Claude's app store ranking surged to number two following Anthropic's public dispute with the Pentagon over AI safeguards for surveillance and autonomous weapons.
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