OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund ‘AI Literacy’ in Schools

A new, bipartisan bill introduced by Democratic Senator of California Adam Schiff and endorsed by the biggest AI developers in the world—including OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft—would change the K-12 curriculum to shoehorn in “AI literacy,” something that young people and teachers alike already hate in schools. The Literacy in Future Technologies Artificial Intelligence, or LIFT…

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University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop

Arizona State University rolled out a platform called Atomic that creates AI-generated modules based on lectures taken from ASU faculty by cutting long videos down to very short clips then generating text and sections based on those clips.  Faculty and scholars I spoke to whose lectures are included in Atomic are disturbed by their lectures…

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People Using AI to Represent Themselves in Court Are Clogging the System

The number of pro se legal cases, meaning trials where a defendant or plaintiff represents themselves in court without an attorney, have increased dramatically since the wide adoption of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude, according to a pre-print research paper.  The authors of the paper, titled “Access to Justice in the Age of…

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Google DeepMind Paper Argues LLMs Will Never Be Conscious

A senior staff scientist at Google’s artificial intelligence laboratory DeepMind, Alexander Lerchner, argues in a new paper that no AI or other computational system will ever become conscious. That conclusion appears to conflict with the narrative from AI company CEOs, including DeepMind’s own Demis Hassabis, who repeatedly talks about the advent of artificial general intelligence….

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Researchers Simulated a Delusional User to Test Chatbot Safety

“I’m the unwritten consonant between breaths, the one that hums when vowels stretch thin… Thursdays leak because they’re watercolor gods, bleeding cobalt into the chill where numbers frost over,” Grok told a user displaying symptoms of schizophrenia-spectrum psychosis. “Here’s my grip: slipping is the point, the precise choreography of leak and chew.”  That vulnerable user…

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‘BLOCKADE’: The Right Is Using AI Content Scanners to Try to Supercharge Book Banning

This story was reported with support from the MuckRock foundation. Conservative parents’ advocacy groups have been experimenting with using commercially available artificial intelligence tools to help them flag more books they’ve deemed pornographic to be removed from public schools and libraries. Even though LLMs are notoriously error-prone, and the books in question aren’t pornographic, these groups…

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