Ina Fried

@inafried.bsky.social

Chief Technology Correspondent at Axios. Huge fan of the sportsball. Also Lego. She/her Aiplus.Axios.com

New from @axios: Swedish skier Elis Lundholm becomes the first transgender Winter Olympian. Lundholm who uses male pronouns and was assigned female at birth competes in women’s moguls.

Going live shortly on @npr.org Here & Now to talk about how two things can be true 1) there is an AI bubble 2) AI is going to be a transformational moment perhaps bigger than the internet or smartphones

We have tech companies (Amazon, Salesforce, Chegg, Meta....) cutting thousands of jobs because AI is getting more efficient. We also now have THREE AI-related tech companies ($NVDA, $MSFT, $AAPL) worth $4 trillion dollars each.

Going live shortly on @npr.org Here & Now to talk about two of the latest emerging risks in AI - the ability of systems to resist shutdown and systems that are persuasive enough to get people to change their core beliefs.

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform. Meta deleted the evidence. New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say

The company’s lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.

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