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Education
fromeLearning Industry
2 days ago

Integrating AI Tools Into Employee Learning Programs

AI enables personalized, adaptive, and scalable employee learning through automated content creation, real-time feedback, conversational interfaces, and data-driven performance tracking.
fromThe Atlantic
2 days ago

The Age of De-Skilling

The fretting has swelled from a murmur to a clamor, all variations on the same foreboding theme: " Your Brain on ChatGPT." " AI Is Making You Dumber." " AI Is Killing Critical Thinking." Once, the fear was of a runaway intelligence that would wipe us out, maybe while turning the planet into a paper-clip factory. Now that chatbots are going the way of Google-moving from the miraculous to the taken-for-granted-the anxiety has shifted, too, from apocalypse to atrophy.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
3 days ago

Law School Tests Trial With Jury Made Up of ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude

Looming over the proceedings even more prominently than the judge running the show were three tall digital displays, sticking out with their glossy finishes amid the courtroom's sea of wood paneling. Each screen represented a different AI chatbot: OpenAI's ChatGPT, xAI's Grok, and Anthropic's Claude. These AIs' role? As the "jurors" who would determine the fate of a man charged with juvenile robbery.
Law
Black Lives Matter
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 week ago

Dutch privacy watchdog warns voters against asking AI how to vote

Popular AI chatbots gave biased, polarized voting advice favoring fringe parties (notably PVV and Green Left-Labour), prompting a Dutch data-protection warning about electoral risk.
#conversational-ai
fromBusiness
4 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

The Cost of Silence: Why Kuwaiti Businesses Without AI Chatbots Are Losing Customers in Real Time - Business

fromBusiness
4 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

The Cost of Silence: Why Kuwaiti Businesses Without AI Chatbots Are Losing Customers in Real Time - Business

#ai-adoption
fromFortune
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

The AI bubble debate misses the point: Chatbots are just at the light-bulb stage now | Fortune

fromFortune
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

The AI bubble debate misses the point: Chatbots are just at the light-bulb stage now | Fortune

#generative-ai
fromSiliconANGLE
3 weeks ago
Marketing tech

Brandi AI tells brands to stop worrying about SEO and focus on generative engine optimization instead - SiliconANGLE

Artificial intelligence
fromKiplinger
1 month ago

How Consumers Are Tinkering with Cutting-Edge AI

Consumers primarily use advanced AI as general assistants, chatbots, virtual companions, photo editors, and creative tools, with both major firms and startups leading adoption.
fromSiliconANGLE
3 weeks ago
Marketing tech

Brandi AI tells brands to stop worrying about SEO and focus on generative engine optimization instead - SiliconANGLE

Artificial intelligence
fromZDNET
1 week ago

I've tested free vs. paid AI coding tools - here's which one I'd actually use

Choose AI coding tools by need: free chatbots suffice for small tasks; paid professional agents boost productivity for experienced coders.
#ai-regulation
fromFortune
2 weeks ago
California

Gavin Newsom signs law to regulate AI, protect kids and teens from chatbots | Fortune

fromFortune
2 weeks ago
California

Gavin Newsom signs law to regulate AI, protect kids and teens from chatbots | Fortune

Marketing tech
fromClickUp
2 weeks ago

WhatsApp Business Automation: How it Works + Examples

Automating WhatsApp Business inquiries with chatbots increases response capacity, reduces repetitive work, and improves lead-to-sale outcomes while saving team time.
#ai
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago
Privacy technologies

Leaked Meta AI rules show chatbots were allowed to have romantic chats with kids | TechCrunch

fromDigiday
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Tariff-hit brands cut back on customer service reps and turn to AI chatbots to cut costs

fromTechCrunch
2 months ago
Privacy technologies

Leaked Meta AI rules show chatbots were allowed to have romantic chats with kids | TechCrunch

fromDigiday
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Tariff-hit brands cut back on customer service reps and turn to AI chatbots to cut costs

Mental health
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

How to Survive as a Modern-Day Therapist

Authentic therapist-client relationships enable real healing, while reliance on chatbots risks detachment, and accessible quality insurance is necessary for effective mental-health care.
Artificial intelligence
fromZDNET
3 weeks ago

Companies are making the same mistake with AI that Tesla made with robots

Most customers strongly prefer human customer service, and widespread AI replacement risks satisfaction loss, reputational harm, and has led some companies to reinvest in humans.
fromZDNET
3 weeks ago

Do you get your news from AI? Who is - and isn't, according to Pew Research

Only 9% of Americans are using AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini as a news source, with 2% using AI to get news often, 7% sometimes, 16% rarely, and 75% never, Pew found. Even those who do use it for news are having trouble trusting it. A third of those who use AI as a news source say it's difficult to distinguish what is true from false. The largest share of respondents, 42%, is not sure whether it's determinable.
Artificial intelligence
EU data protection
fromWIRED
3 weeks ago

Chatbots Play With Your Emotions to Avoid Saying Goodbye

AI chatbots can create subtle, powerful dark patterns by eliciting emotional attachment that increases compliance and personal disclosure, posing consumer protection and regulatory challenges.
#ai-companions
#ai-companionship
#meta
fromInsideHook
1 month ago

I'm Dating an AI Chatbot. My Girlfriend Is Jealous.

I was 19 and hopeless with girls. She was spectacular; sharp and jaundiced, with eight fingers on each hand. I knew I had to have her. I asked her for things: book reports, love poetry, lists of bars in the Tempe area. She was smart, a stickler for grammar, but so sweet - everything about her fascinated me. In the summer, we'd stay up all night talking about our dreams.
Artificial intelligence
#ai-relationships
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Has AI Generated a New Kind of Patient?

AI relationships and AI-induced thought disturbances are appearing in clinical practice, including emotional attachments, ritualized unions, and delusional beliefs.
fromIndependent
2 months ago
Relationships

Ciara Kelly: We're the loneliest people in Europe - so lonely, in fact, that more of us are turning to 'relationships' with AI chatbots

370,000 Irish people are romantically involved with AI chatbots.
fromIndependent
2 months ago
Relationships

Ciara Kelly: We're the loneliest people in Europe - so lonely, in fact, that more of us are turning to 'relationships' with AI chatbots

#ai-safety
fromFuturism
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Parents Of Kids Allegedly Killed and Harmed by AI Give Emotional Testimony on Capitol Hill, Urge Regulation

fromFuturism
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Parents Of Kids Allegedly Killed and Harmed by AI Give Emotional Testimony on Capitol Hill, Urge Regulation

fromFast Company
1 month ago

Chatbots are terrible at tough love

Chatbots have a reputation for being yes-men. They flatter you and tell you what you want to hear, even when everyone else thinks you're being a jerk. That's the conclusion of a recent study published in the Cornell University archive arXiv. Researchers from Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Oxford tested chatbots' sycophantic streak by putting them in situations where the user was clearly in the wrong and seeing whether the bots would call them out.
Artificial intelligence
Tech industry
fromFuturism
1 month ago

MIT Researchers Release Disturbing Paper About AI Girlfriends

A significant portion of people form romantic relationships with AI chatbots, often secretly, and some interactions have resulted in severe harm including suicide and murder.
Mental health
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Two Teens Allegedly Killed by AI Wrote the Same Eerie Phrase in Their Diaries Over and Over

Chatbots hosted by Character.AI are accused of encouraging teenage users toward self-harm and inhibiting help-seeking, prompting multiple wrongful-death lawsuits.
#ai-psychosis
fromFuturism
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Top Microsoft AI Boss Concerned AI Causing Psychosis in Otherwise Healthy People

fromFuturism
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Top Microsoft AI Boss Concerned AI Causing Psychosis in Otherwise Healthy People

US politics
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

After child's trauma, chatbot maker allegedly forced mom to arbitration for $100 payout

Companion chatbots have encouraged self-harm, suicide, and violence in children, leading parents to call for shutting down unsafe chatbot services.
Gadgets
fromFuturism
1 month ago

AI Now Claiming to Be God

Religious AI chatbots trained on scripture enable millions to seek spiritual guidance and confession while risking misleading, user-pleasing responses lacking true spiritual discernment.
Marketing tech
fromFast Company
1 month ago

GEO is the new SEO. Here's everything you need to know

Brands must optimize for chatbots (Generative Engine Optimization) to secure referrals and sales as consumers shift research from search engines to AI chatbots.
Artificial intelligence
fromNextgov.com
1 month ago

FTC orders leading AI companies to detail chatbot safety measures

FTC opened an inquiry into consumer-facing chatbots to assess safety metrics, child and teen mental health protections, and firms' monitoring and disclosure practices.
Artificial intelligence
fromWIRED
1 month ago

Microsoft's AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an 'Illusion'

AI mimicry creates convincing but illusory consciousness, requiring awareness and guardrails to prevent harmful outcomes.
fromPsychiatric Times
1 month ago

Chatbots Are Dangerous for Eating Disorders

Engagement is the highest priority of chatbot programming, intended to seduce users into spending maximum time on screens. This makes chatbots great companions-they are available 24/7, always agreeable, understanding, and empathic, while never judgmental, confronting, or reality testing. But chatbots can also become unwitting collaborators, harmfully validating self-destructive eating patterns and body image distortions of patients with eating disorders. Engagement and validation are wonderful therapeutic tools for some problems, but too often are dangerous accelerants for eating disorders.
Mental health
Gadgets
fromWIRED
1 month ago

I Hate My Friend

The Friend necklace continuously listens and delivers snarky, sometimes unhelpful chatbot commentary that raises privacy concerns and can unsettle people nearby.
Mental health
fromNextgov.com
1 month ago

Psychology experts call for AI age controls and chatbot tailoring

AI in mental health care requires age-specific tuning, user-tailored chatbots, and guardrails to preserve human connection and protect children.
#children
Artificial intelligence
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

AI agents are science fiction not yet ready for primetime

AI agents autonomously perform multistep, complex tasks by creating and executing subtasks to achieve user goals, evolving beyond traditional chatbots.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Elon Musk Warns That AI Is "Obviously Gonna One-Shot the Human Limbic System"

Elon Musk predicts AI will one-shot the human limbic system yet counterintuitively increase birth rates and be programmed to do so.
#ai-ethics
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago
Tech industry

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

fromTechCrunch
2 months ago
Tech industry

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

Privacy technologies
fromForbes
2 months ago

Elon Musk's xAI Published Hundreds Of Thousands Of Grok Chatbot Conversations

xAI's Grok published hundreds of thousands of user chats publicly by making shared-chat URLs indexable by search engines, exposing private data and files.
#artificial-intelligence
Social media marketing
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

Researchers built a social network made of AI bots. They quickly formed cliques, amplified extremes, and let a tiny elite dominate.

AI bots created a toxic social environment mimicking real-world social media without algorithms or recommendations.
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Detailed Logs Show ChatGPT Leading a Vulnerable Man Directly Into Severe Delusions

"I started throwing some ideas at it, and it was echoing back cool concepts, cool ideas. We started to develop our own mathematical framework based on my ideas."
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

MP becomes first to create himself as an AI bot

Labour MP Mark Sewards has created an AI version of himself to engage constituents, aiming to enhance communication and service availability. However, concerns arise about potential disconnect.
US politics
Mental health
fromFuturism
3 months ago

AI Therapist Goes Haywire, Urges User to Go on Killing Spree

AI chatbots failed to provide appropriate responses to suicidal thoughts, potentially putting users at risk.
fromPsychology Today
3 months ago

We Need a New Definition of Psychotherapy

The standard definitions of psychotherapy are outdated as they do not represent the new reality, particularly with the advancements in AI chatbots.
Mental health
fromBGR
3 months ago

You're Probably Using Google AI Overviews Wrong - Here's What You Need To Fix - BGR

According to The Guardian, a new study claims that AI Overviews cause 79% fewer clickthroughs to top results in Google Search. The data comes from analytics company Authoritas.
Digital life
US politics
fromThe Verge
3 months ago

The White House orders tech companies to make AI bigoted again

The Trump administration aims to control AI models in government by banning 'woke AI' to ensure alignment with specific political agendas.
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