Tag: AI Platforms & Assistants
Quote of the day by US President Dwight D Eisenhower: ‘Public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite’ — foreshadowing Silicon Valley’s global domination
Campaigners have long feared the influence of big money and influential corporations in politics – with this situation arguably worse than ever. In modern times, lobbying by technology companies has even given way to technology executives playing a role in devising government policy. “The prospect of domination of the nation’s…
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Quote of the day by computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton on AI: ‘It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things’ — a pessimistic take on the domination of new technologies by those with ulterior motives
As AI develops into the latter half of the 2020s, scientists have repeatedly warned of the dangers that may arise from its widespread deployment. In particular, there is an overriding view that advancing AI is a tool that can be used for good or for bad depending on who is…
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The ‘poison AI’ movement wants to corrupt ChatGPT and Gemini to make them useless — but it comes with a huge risk of collateral damage
AI has acquired an unusual new enemy. A growing AI data poisoning online movement wants to attack the models themselves. The goal is simple enough on paper — feed future AI systems bad information, misleading data, or deliberately corrupted material until they become less useful. If future versions of ChatGPT,…
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Minnesota showed why Harry and Meghan are right about Grok — ‘technology should not enable predators to target children’
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have taken direct aim at Grok after Minnesota became the first state to enforce a ban on AI “nudification” technology, using an unusually blunt official statement to criticize xAI’s attempt to stop the law. Days before the legislation took effect, Elon Musk’s AI company filed…
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Workers are hitting back at employer plans to use AI to screen job applications
64% of Brits reject the use of AI to filter job applications, according to a new YouGov poll Meanwhile, 70% would prefer a face-to-face interview over one conducted over a video call Prime Minister Andy Burnham shared his thoughts on current hiring practices on the Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future…
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Quote of the day by Anduril founder Palmer Lucky: ‘There’s no moral high ground to making a land mine that can’t tell the difference between a school bus full of children and Russian armor’
The thought of infusing AI into weapons immediately evokes deep fears, not only based on the idea that autonomous weapons may make life-and-death decisions on our behalf, but also on the prospect of errors creeping in. But for Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril Industries, there’s no alternative but to add…
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