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"There is a percentage of my colleagues who are still trying to spell AI."
Aging Congress Is Completely Ill-Equipped to Regulate AI, or Seemingly Even Understand It
Congress is in total disarray over how to regulate AI, with some lawmakers complaining that their colleagues don't understand the technology.
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"If we can't meaningfully review and evaluate these systems, we can't trust them."
Federal Agents Are Secretly Monitoring Americans' Financial Transactions So Cops Can Arrest People They Find Suspicious
Secretive "predictive policing" units at the US Border Patrol are analyzing American's financial activity to single out people to pull over.
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Have they considered simply using their time to do the work instead?
College Students Using AI to Cheat Are Going to Absurd Lengths to Avoid Detection
Some college students using AI to complete their assignments are going to absurd lengths to avoid being caught cheating.
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"This has been a life-changing drug so far, and I can't share it with the person I'm closest with."
GLP-1 Users Are Being Cruelly Shamed by Their Own Families
Many who are using GLP-1s to lose weight feel shamed and judged by their family and friends. Some keep their usage a secret.
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America's approval of organized labor is higher than it's been since 1965.
Support for Unions Is Spiking as AI Threatens Jobs
As AI automation and rampant inflation threaten the American way of life, workers are throwing support behind unions in record numbers.
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"Who is responsible when there is no human driver behind the wheel?"
Lawyers Already Lining Up to Defend Victims of Cybercab Crashes
Tesla's new two-doored coupe already has lawyers frothing at the mouth to litigate the first ever accident involving a Cybercab.
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"AI face-swapping technology can indiscriminately harvest anyone's likeness, making ordinary people potential targets of deepfakes."
Top Chinese Court Issues Sweeping Legal Crackdown on AI Deepfakes
The Supreme People's Court of China has released a 24-part guiding opinion on how lower courts should handle cases of AI-abuse.
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"A military institution doing gain-of-function research is concerning."
Anthropic Just Revealed That It’s Stopped Foreign Agents From Using Claude to Develop Possible Bioweapons
Anthropic says it stopped several cases of foreign scientists of using its AI models to create possible bioweapons.
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"They turned laptop into a weapon. I turned it into a token."
Hunter Biden's $LAPTOP Meme Coin Is Either a National Disgrace or the Funniest Thing He's Ever Done, and We're Not Entirely Sure Which
The young Biden's recent crypto scheme is an incredibly convoluted dig at the Trump dynasty's crypto profiteering.
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"What could have been a high-stress situation was really mitigated through early detection."
Anthropic Is Building a Huge Surveillance System to Spy on Anti-AI Activists and Predict Their Activities
The AI lab is reportedly building out a dragnet not just to surveil protestors, but to predict "threat engagement" before it happens.
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NEW: A Utah mother posted what she felt was an innocuous family video to IG/FB. Later, she noticed a Meta AI prompt encouraging her to investigate her own family -- and watched as the AI drew on years of social media posts to compile intelligence about her and her kids. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Mother Horrified When Meta's AI Scours Instagram and Facebook for Invasive Information About Her Young Daughters
Kalie Robins shared a video of her and her daughter singing. Meta AI started prompting her to investigate information about her family.
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"It just kept going and going, and that pit in my stomach just kept getting bigger and deeper."
Mother Horrified When Meta's AI Scours Instagram and Facebook for Invasive Information About Her Young Daughters
Kalie Robins shared a video of her and her daughter singing. Meta AI started prompting her to investigate information about her family.
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It's the most deaths on record for a single year of the festival.
Numerous Deaths Reported at Burning Man
There were three separate deaths in less than a week at this year's Burning Man, the most in a single year on record.
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"I have a feeling I wasn't supposed to see this."
Tesla's Glitchy Cybercab Accidentally Lets Passengers Access Controls to Manually Drive the Car Using Virtual Joystick on In-Vehicle Screen
Several Cybercab passengers were able to access the self-driving cars' hidden manual controls after an apparent glitch.
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"These robots can already move around freely, they're already 'protesting.'"
Dozens of Humanoid Robots Gather for a Protest, Marching and Waving Signs
A crowd of humanoid robots descended on Poland's Ministry of Digital Affairs as part of a demonstration calling for the regulation of AI.
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