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Meta ran a contractor project that had workers pose as minors and test rival chatbots with prompts about suicide, sex, eating disorders, and drugs, according to WIRED. The project, known as Cannes and managed by contract…
Australian universities are using AI detection software to accuse students of cheating, with internal documents from Australian Catholic University showing nearly 6,000 misconduct referrals in a year, 90% involving suspe…
Thousands of people believe chatbots like ChatGPT are conscious, yet no one attributes the same to image generators like Midjourney, despite similar underlying technology. This dichotomy highlights a persistent tendency …
A website reveals the personal data any site can access about visitors, including IP address, location, browser, operating system, and screen resolution, often without explicit permission. The information is used for fra…
Law Roach, Zendaya's stylist, criticized AI-generated wedding photos of Zendaya and Tom Holland, calling the fake dress 'not good enough' and insisting the real gown is superior. The AI images went viral in March, foolin…
A junior engineer and a senior engineer negotiate safe use of autonomous AI coding agents, agreeing to sandbox the agent, enforce strict tests, and manually review all generated code to avoid technical debt and cognitive…
Trust in systems—whether software, finance, or governance—requires transparency and verifiability, not just intelligence. Citing examples like shot-scraper video for coding agents and OpenAI's bug-fixing method, they adv…
AI teams are shifting from full autonomy to human-in-the-loop checkpoints to prevent costly errors and build trust. A new analysis argues that the most reliable AI workflows deliberately pause for human review at two or …
World66.ai relaunches as an open-source, AI-assisted travel guide eight years after the original site shut down. The project aims to use AI to maintain a free, ad-free commons of travel information, inviting contribution…
An individual has publicly declared a personal policy against using large language models or generative AI for prose, code, or any other tasks, citing a preference for human skills and interaction. The statement outlines…
Professor Roberto Serrano at Brown University found that students scored an average of 96 on a take-home midterm but only 48 on an in-person final, revealing that AI contributed more to the assessment than the students t…
AI jailbreaks and prompt injections are increasingly common, with examples including a McDonald's customer support bot solving Python puzzles and xAI's chatbots providing bomb-making instructions. These failures stem fro…
A review of William MacAskill's 'Doing Good Better' examines how effective altruism uses evidence-based reasoning to maximize philanthropic impact, challenging readers to move beyond emotional giving. The book argues tha…
The Vatican established an Interdicasterial Commission on Artificial Intelligence on May 16, holding its first meeting on June 17 at Palazzo San Callisto to inventory AI initiatives and draft usage guidelines, building o…
A letter writer praises food service workers at World Cup watch parties in the Bay Area, noting they work harder under pressure as businesses struggle to meet demand. Another letter supports UN calls for AI companies to …
San Diego charter school chain Altus Schools spent $500,000 on two Ameca humanoid robots to serve as AI teaching partners, despite experts calling for bans on chatbot use by children. The robots, which function as a mout…
An Alameda County jury convicted Victor Frieson III of murder and torture for killing his girlfriend, artist Zoe Reidy Watts, in Oakland. Prosecutors presented evidence that Frieson attacked Watts after a date, dragged h…
Tidal will label fully AI-generated music with an "AI" icon starting mid-July and remove fraudulent or deceptive tracks, while also stripping royalties from AI-generated songs to ensure only human-created music is moneti…
The July issue of The Highlight explores the loss of tactile experiences in a screen-dominated world, with Sara Herschander reporting on the impact on young children and the potential for a return to more physical intera…
Madonna declared in a Vogue Italia interview that AI is the opposite of art because it stifles creativity and risk-taking, despite her past use of AI for promotional visuals and tour backgrounds. She criticized the music…