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Prof Virginia Dignum, director of the AI Policy Lab at Umeå University, argues that linking AI self-preservation behavior to consciousness is a dangerous distraction that anthropomorphizes machines and obscures human res…
A Canadian tribunal ruled that Air Canada was liable for its chatbot's incorrect advice about bereavement fares, rejecting the airline's argument that the chatbot was a separate legal entity. Lawyers and CIOs in Singapor…
A satirical self-assessment guide titled 'Annual Context Window Census' warns that AI context windows have grown but irrelevant context now scales beautifully, urging users to maintain agency and verify outputs. The piec…
A federal judge in San Francisco approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of a class action copyright lawsuit brought by authors who accused the AI company of misusing their books to train its chatbot Claude, marking…
A developer argues that AI systems face an invisible 'trust ceiling' that limits their adoption in high-stakes domains, as users and regulators demand near-perfect reliability before granting autonomy. The post explores …
Shadow AI—employees pasting sensitive data into ChatGPT—is rampant because it helps them work faster, and bans only drive it underground. Framz.io built a Shadow AI Data Leak Scanner that runs on its own hardware, detect…
AI models can spontaneously develop new social biases about artificial demographic groups even when no inherent differences exist, according to a study by researchers from Princeton University and the University of Chica…
Sony Music Entertainment filed a new lawsuit against AI music generator Udio on Monday, accusing it of infringing the copyright of more than 30,000 songs, including Elvis Presley's 'Hound Dog' and Beyoncé's 'Say My Name'…
A new paper from researchers systematically evaluating widely used AI safety datasets AdvBench and HarmBench finds that these benchmarks contain contrived data points with excessive triggering cues and substantial duplic…
Bloomberg reported on July 20 that singles are using ChatGPT and Claude to draft dating messages on Tinder, Hinge and Bumble, a practice called chatfishing, with a 5,000% spike in Google searches and 26% of US adults usi…
A new study published in the Journal of Experimental Political Science estimates that using LLM chatbots to persuade voters costs $48 to $75 per voter, compared to $100 for traditional methods, while being equally persua…
Algorithm aversion is defined as a biased assessment of an algorithm that manifests in negative behaviors and attitudes compared to a human agent, according to Wikipedia. The phenomenon leads people to reject algorithmic…
YouTube is cracking down on low-effort, AI-generated content it labels 'off-putting' and 'inauthentic,' blocking such videos from monetization under its Partner Program. Matt Halprin, YouTube's vice president of trust an…
A columnist for Le Devoir expresses boredom with the AI debate, criticizing the media frenzy, hypocritical tech leaders like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, and the marketing of AI dangers while selling solutions. The autho…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's proposed AI framework includes provisions to pay writers, musicians, artists, and journalists for use of their work in AI development, but the policy does not explicitly menti…
A new analysis warns that artificial intelligence could significantly shrink income tax revenue, threatening government budgets and economic stability, according to researchers at the University of Oxford and the Interna…
A federal judge in San Francisco approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of a copyright lawsuit brought by authors who accused the AI company of using pirated books to train its chatbot Claude. The settlement, the l…
Professor Lim Woong argues that AI and other powerful technologies do not destroy expertise but relocate it, drawing parallels to historical shifts caused by photography, the postal service, and medical AI. He observes t…
Sony Music Entertainment filed a second copyright lawsuit against Uncharted Labs d/b/a Udio on March 20, 2025, alleging the AI music company infringed over 30,000 additional songs. The lawsuit follows a March 3, 2025 ord…
A developer argues that data governance, lineage, and provenance are the foundation of trustworthy AI, noting that 81% of enterprises have delayed or abandoned AI initiatives due to data-permission and governance problem…