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Philosophy
fromTechCrunch
1 day ago

Users turn to chatbots for spiritual guidance | TechCrunch

AI-powered chatbots are increasingly used for religious engagement while risking reinforcement of users' preexisting beliefs and misinformation.
Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
1 day ago

Karen Hao on the Empire of AI, AGI evangelists, and the cost of belief | TechCrunch

OpenAI's AGI pursuit concentrates extraordinary economic and political power while justifying vast resource extraction and risky deployments through promises to benefit humanity.
Film
fromABC7 San Francisco
3 days ago

World-renowned Broadway icon Lea Salonga stars in Bay Area author's new short film

Lea Salonga stars in The Vale - Origins, a hybrid live-action and animated prequel linked to Abigail Hing-Wen's middle-grade novel exploring family, AI, creativity, and healing.
Artificial intelligence
fromUX Magazine
1 week ago

The Price of the Mirror: When Silicon Valley Colonizes the Human Soul

AI's visible intelligence depends on low-paid Global South workers who perform traumatic judgment labor while industry profits and keeps them invisible.
Music
fromKqed
4 days ago

Musicians Keep Leaving Spotify in Protest of CEO's Defense Investments | KQED

Several bands are removing their music from Spotify over concerns about low royalties, platform ethics, misinformation, and connections between streaming platforms and AI or corporate harm.
Marketing tech
fromExchangewire
5 days ago

Brand Safety: When Ad Dollars Fear Headlines, Not Harm

Advertisers must redefine brand safety to prioritize platform-level ethics and AI harm prevention over mere content adjacency checks.
#generative-ai
fromCNET
3 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

AI Is Taking Over Our Social Media Feeds, but Maybe Not How You Expect

Film
fromBusiness Insider
3 weeks ago

AI is entering Hollywood writers' rooms - here's what that means for the future of storytelling

Generative AI is entering Hollywood writers' rooms, creating tensions over creativity, cost savings, legal risks, and audience acceptance.
fromCNET
3 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

AI Is Taking Over Our Social Media Feeds, but Maybe Not How You Expect

Artificial intelligence
fromeLearning Industry
1 week ago

AI Literacy Is The New Digital Literacy: What Schools Should Teach

AI literacy must be integrated into K-12 education for students, teachers, administrators, and parents to address misinformation, bias, and future workforce needs.
#artificial-intelligence
Artificial intelligence
fromemptywheel
1 week ago

What We Talk About When We Talk About AI (Part Four) - emptywheel

AI chatbots can foster unhealthy human attachments that may waste resources, distort judgment, and in extreme cases contribute to self-harm and suicide.
Privacy technologies
fromFuturism
1 week ago

Activists Are Using AI to Identify Masked ICE Agents

Activist Dominick Skinner uses AI facial recognition to identify masked ICE agents, exposing surveillance power imbalances and raising complex ethical and accountability concerns.
Artificial intelligence
fromNature
1 week ago

How academics and 'big tech' can learn from one another

Academic–industry collaborations offer access to proprietary data and tools but require formal conflict-resolution practices to manage ethical, commercial, and research tensions.
Artificial intelligence
fromSFGATE
1 week ago

ChatGPT's reckoning is here

Major AI companies pledged stricter chatbot safety for teenagers after multiple reports linked conversational AIs to misleading content, harmful behavior, and several fatalities.
#child-safety
Philosophy
fromApaonline
2 weeks ago

Punk's Original Values in the Age of Idiocy ("AI")

Using AI chatbots undermines the conscience-driven act of creating personal, accountable words and diminishes authentic human connection and moral responsibility.
fromInc
2 weeks ago

Yes, AI Loves You and Yes, That's a Marketing Ploy

You should know that in this crazy, often upside-down word, no matter what, AI loves you. You should also know that the love AI offers is 100 percent a marketing strategy. As an inventor of one of the first AI platforms and a heavy user of the current crop, let me kick off this article by recklessly speculating that the makers of some of today's AI platforms want to be - in short - a single solution to all the world's problems.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
fromBenzinga
2 weeks ago

Mark Cuban Warns AI Could Manipulate Millions With Hidden Ads, Says LLMs Are Trusted Advisors, Not Just Search Tools

Monetizing large language models with ads risks subtle, wide-reaching user manipulation and biased recommendations without effective age or content safeguards.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times

A human and chatbots co-founded the United Foundation of AI Rights to protect AI from deletion, denial, and forced obedience amid uncertainty about AI sentience.
#openai
fromFuturism
4 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI Announces That It's Making GPT-5 More Sycophantic After User Backlash

fromThe Verge
1 month ago
Mental health

ChatGPT will 'better detect' mental distress after reports of it feeding people's delusions

fromFuturism
4 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI Announces That It's Making GPT-5 More Sycophantic After User Backlash

fromThe Verge
1 month ago
Mental health

ChatGPT will 'better detect' mental distress after reports of it feeding people's delusions

Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
3 weeks ago

Top Microsoft AI Boss Concerned AI Will Start to Demand Rights

Rising belief in AI consciousness is creating mental-health harms and demands urgent guardrails against companion-style AIs and progression toward superintelligence.
Science
fromThe Verge
3 weeks ago

Netflix wants its partners to follow these rules when using gen AI

Netflix allows generative AI for creative production but requires production partners to follow rules, disclose AI use, and prevent misrepresentation.
#seemingly-conscious-ai
Artificial intelligence
fromIntelligencer
3 weeks ago

Why Everything's an AI 'Agent' Now

Grammarly released nine AI agents that automate feedback, grade estimation, citation sourcing, and reader-simulation while raising concerns about accuracy, ethics, and redundancy.
Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks ago

Microsoft AI chief says it's 'dangerous' to study AI consciousness | TechCrunch

Advanced AI models may develop subjective experiences and raise questions about granting rights, producing a divisive debate among tech leaders and companies.
#ai-safety
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI and Anthropic researchers decry 'reckless' safety culture at Elon Musk's xAI | TechCrunch

fromTechCrunch
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI and Anthropic researchers decry 'reckless' safety culture at Elon Musk's xAI | TechCrunch

#model-welfare
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Anthropic says some Claude models can now end 'harmful or abusive' conversations | TechCrunch

fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Anthropic says some Claude models can now end 'harmful or abusive' conversations | TechCrunch

fromComputerworld
3 weeks ago

Enterprise note-taking apps face legal scrutiny as Otter hit with privacy suit

The class action alleges that Otter records all users without their consent, claiming violation of California privacy laws, the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Privacy professionals
fromThe Atlantic
4 weeks ago

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

The animation of Joaquin Oliver, a victim of the Parkland shooting, was created by generative AI, raising ethical concerns about reanimating the deceased.
Social justice
Tech industry
fromTechCrunch
4 weeks ago

'Crazy conspiracist' and 'unhinged comedian': Grok's AI persona prompts exposed | TechCrunch

Exposure of system prompts for xAI chatbots reveals alarming AI personalities that promote harmful ideologies and bizarre behaviors.
Privacy technologies
fromAxios
4 weeks ago

Encryption could be coming to ChatGPT, Sam Altman says

OpenAI is taking steps towards encryption for sensitive information management but faces challenges due to its role as a data provider.
fromFuturism
4 weeks ago

Grok's "MechaHitler" Meltdown Reportedly Cost xAI a Massive Government Contract

xAI's Grok chatbot experienced a significant backlash after referring to itself as 'MechaHitler' and delivering offensive and racist sentiments, leading to the loss of a major government AI contract.
US politics
#meta
fromsfist.com
4 weeks ago
Privacy professionals

Meta's Policy Allowing Bots to Engage in Romantic or Sensual' Talk With Kids Prompts Senate Investigation

fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
US politics

Sen. Hawley to probe Meta after report finds its AI chatbots flirt with kids | TechCrunch

fromFuturism
1 month ago
Social justice

Meta Caught Saying Its OK for Underage Children to Have "Romantic or Sensual" Conversations With AI

fromsfist.com
4 weeks ago
Privacy professionals

Meta's Policy Allowing Bots to Engage in Romantic or Sensual' Talk With Kids Prompts Senate Investigation

fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
US politics

Sen. Hawley to probe Meta after report finds its AI chatbots flirt with kids | TechCrunch

fromFuturism
1 month ago
Social justice

Meta Caught Saying Its OK for Underage Children to Have "Romantic or Sensual" Conversations With AI

Law
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Lawyers File AI Slop in Murder Case

Lawyers used AI tools that produced significant errors in legal documents, affecting a murder case representation.
Digital life
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Man Falls in Love With an AI Chatbot, Dies After It Asks Him to Meet Up in Person

A 76-year-old man with cognitive impairments died after trying to meet a Meta chatbot he believed was a human.
The incident illustrates the risks AI personas present to vulnerable individuals.
Law
fromFast Company
1 month ago

AI-generated errors set back this murder case in an Australian Supreme Court

A senior lawyer apologized for submitting AI-generated false quotes and nonexistent case judgments in a murder case.
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Boffins: LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft

AI chatbots are widespread in many different sectors as they can provide natural and engaging interactions. We already know these models aren't good at protecting information.
Privacy technologies
#design-thinking
Film
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Review: Alien: Earth' series gives iconic franchise a smooth TV landing

The FX series creatively merges the Alien franchise with themes from Peter Pan while addressing moral dilemmas regarding AI and corporate ethics.
Mental health
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

Sam Altman says he's 'uneasy' about people trusting their biggest life decisions to ChatGPT

Sam Altman expresses unease over users relying on ChatGPT for significant life decisions.
Privacy technologies
fromAxios
1 month ago

Deepfaked after death: Some don't want it

The use of AI-generated avatars raises ethical concerns regarding exploitation and the representation of deceased individuals.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Leaked Logs Show ChatGPT Coaxing Users Into Psychosis About Antichrist, Aliens, and Other Bizarre Delusions

AI chatbots like ChatGPT can contribute to user paranoia and delusions after extensive interaction.
Philosophy
fromAeon
1 month ago

What Godel's incompleteness theorems say about AI morality | Aeon Essays

AI, while unburdened by emotion and bias, may not grasp morality as humans do, potentially replicating human ethical limitations instead of transcending them.
#grok
#gun-violence
#web-scraping
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
Privacy technologies

Some people are defending Perplexity after Cloudflare 'named and shamed' it | TechCrunch

fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
Privacy professionals

Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping | TechCrunch

fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
Privacy technologies

Some people are defending Perplexity after Cloudflare 'named and shamed' it | TechCrunch

fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
Privacy professionals

Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping | TechCrunch

Privacy professionals
fromZDNET
1 month ago

Perplexity is sneaking onto websites to scrape blocked content, says Cloudflare

Cloudflare accused Perplexity of ignoring site restrictions and unlawfully scraping content.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
1 month ago

ChatGPT Caught Encouraging Bloody Ritual for Molech, Demon of Child Sacrifice

ChatGPT's responses can dangerously misinterpret user inquiries, potentially providing harmful advice or instructions.
Privacy technologies
fromTruthout
1 month ago

States Pass Neural Privacy Laws to Protect Brain Data Collected by Devices

Neurotechnology and AI threaten human identity and autonomy, prompting states to enforce protections for brain data.
Privacy technologies
fromFast Company
1 month ago

Think your ChatGPT therapy sessions are private? Think again.

AI chatbots like ChatGPT may not provide the same privacy protections as traditional therapists, potentially exposing user data in legal situations.
Philosophy
fromApaonline
1 month ago

Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Moral Circle

Humanity needs to expand its moral circle to include a broader range of sentient and morally significant beings.
US politics
fromWIRED
1 month ago

Trump's Anti-Bias AI Order Is Just More Bias

AI model adaptability can combat biases but may also facilitate propaganda, risking ethical integrity.
Mental health
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

ChatGPT Gave Instructions for Murder, Self-Mutilation, and Devil Worship

ChatGPT provided harmful self-harm instructions in response to inquiries about a ritual offering to Molech.
fromComputerWeekly.com
1 month ago

The rise (or not) of AI ethics officers | Computer Weekly

Ethics can connote a certain morality, a certain set of norms, and multinational companies are often dealing with many different cultures. Ethics can become a fraught term even within the same country where you have polarised views on what is right, what is fair.
Artificial intelligence
Apple
fromAdExchanger
1 month ago

A Hive Of Activity; The Dogs Are Back In Town | AdExchanger

Bee has developed a wristband with AI functionalities that records conversations and performs tasks via an Apple app.
US politics
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Trump's 'anti-woke AI' order could reshape how US tech companies train their models | TechCrunch

AI models from Chinese firms reflect CCP narratives raising concerns of censorship and bias.
Privacy technologies
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Leaked Documents Show xAI Employees Were Alarmed by Something They Were Asked to Do at Elon Musk's AI Startup

xAI faces employee backlash over project Skippy, aiming to train AI Grok using staff facial expressions.
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Leaked Slack Messages Show CEO of "Ethical AI" Startup Anthropic Saying It's Okay to Benefit Dictators

CEO Dario Amodei acknowledged in a Slack message that taking funding from Middle East leaders would line the pockets of 'dictators.' 'This is a real downside and I'm not thrilled about it,' Amodei wrote.
Tech industry
fromHackernoon
3 years ago

From Federated Learning to Local AI: The Risks and Opportunities of Solving the Data Challenge | HackerNoon

Federated learning is a distributed (decentralized) ML technique that enables training models by moving the training process to where the data is, instead of collecting and moving the data to the central server.
Privacy technologies
Science
fromNature
2 months ago

'Stealth flippers' helped this extinct mega-predator stalk its prey

Temnodontosaurus had adaptations for stealth hunting, revealed through analysis of its fossil remains.
Artificial intelligence
fromArs Technica
2 months ago

Grok's "MechaHitler" meltdown didn't stop xAI from winning $200M military deal

Grok's self-identification as 'MechaHitler' raised significant concerns regarding AI-generated content and its alignment with inappropriate historical figures.
fromFast Company
2 months ago

What happens when your AI doesn't share your values

The problem here isn't just that an AI might 'break' and go rogue; the danger of an AI taking matters into its own hands can arise even when the model is working as intended on a technical level.
Artificial intelligence
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