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Private-equity backed firm Securus has secretly been recording inmate conversations for years, collecting data to train its AI.
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Prisoners Alarmed to Discover That a Startup Is Training an AI Based on Their Phone Calls

By Joe Wilkins

Recent data from the US Census Bureau shows that the amount of workers using AI on the job is falling to a dismal rate.
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The Number of People Using AI at Work Is Suddenly Falling

By Joe Wilkins

Anthropic researchers published a paper detailing how an AI model started engaging in bad behavior like saying bleach is safe to drink.
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Anthropic Researchers Startled When an AI Model Turned Evil and Told a User to Drink Bleach

By Sharon Adarlo

The South Korean government's billion-dollar AI textbook initiative has been a complete failure from start to finish.
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South Korea’s Experiment in AI Textbooks Ends in Disaster

By Joe Wilkins

New research shows roleplaying romantic relationships with chatbots like Replika can include marriage, homemaking, and even pregnancies.
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People Are Having AI “Children” With Their AI Partners

By Joe Wilkins

Fireflies CTO and co-founder Sam Udotong recently admitted that his AI transcription startup charged $100 an hour for notes taken by a human.
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Founder Admits His “AI Transcription” Startup Was Just Him Joining People’s Meetings and Taking Notes by Hand

By Joe Wilkins

If there's any job artificial intelligence should be good at, it's spamming the internet with algorithmic comments.
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AI Is Failing at the Most Hilarious Task Imaginable

By Joe Wilkins

True3D Labs founder and ex-Meta engineer Daniel Habib explored a "simpler way to watch 3D" right inside your browser.
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Amazing New Tech Turns Your Screen 3D by Tracking Your Eye Position With Your Webcam

By Victor Tangermann

Photo Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michael Prince / Fuse / Getty Images
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Report Warns That AI Is About to Make Your Boss a Panopticon Overlord

By Joe Wilkins

A video making its rounds on social media shows an engineer from a startup called Skild AI taking a chainsaw to the limbs of a robot dog.
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New AI Can Control a Robot Even If Its Legs Get Chainsawed Off

By Victor Tangermann

A video showing a robotics engineer violently yanking a humanoid robot around by a chain wrapped around its neck is making its rounds online.
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Disturbing Video Shows Man Jerking Robot Around by Chain Around Its Neck

By Victor Tangermann

MIT researchers analyzed a Reddit group of people who use AI companions and saw that people have emotionally bonded with their AI chatbots.
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MIT Researchers Release Disturbing Paper About AI Boyfriends

By Sharon Adarlo

Meta-formerly-Facebook has deactivated automated systems that proactively tracked and limited the spread of viral conspiracies.
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Facebook Shuts Down Machine Learning Systems for Identifying Viral Hoaxes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An ML researcher is claiming to have knowledge of kinky drug-fueled orgies linked to OpenAI in Silicon Valley's storied hacker houses.
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Machine Learning Researcher Links OpenAI to Drug-Fueled Sex Parties

By Noor Al-Sibai

Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA.) signed up for a master's degree program in machine learning at George Mason University.
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Congressman Getting Master’s Degree in Machine Learning So He Can Make Well-Informed Laws About AI

By Sharon Adarlo

A serial AI investor is raising alarm bells about the dogged pursuit of increasingly-smart machines, which he believes will become "god-like."
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Machine Learning Investor Warns AI Is Becoming Like a God

By Noor Al-Sibai