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Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
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Helps some people compose emails faster though, so impossible to say if it’s bad or good.
In the weeks before the killing, Soelberg posted a chat to social media where he told his bot, “We will be together in another life and another place and we’ll find a way to realign cause you’re gonna be my best friend again forever.” “With you to the last breath and beyond,” the bot told him in another chat Soelberg posted less than two weeks before he died. Police found Soelberg in the attic. Sharp force injuries of neck and chest were determined to be his cause of death. Soelberg was on the floor near his bed. Police presumed he had fallen off it in his final moments. His two smartphones were found on the bed.
December 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Tempting.
Jewel box display case with tee shirt from Berry Gordy’s last dragon with Taimak and Vanity.
December 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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What if Uber or Airbnb, but a eugenics grift. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/05/1...
The ad blitz is a way to end-run such gatekeepers: If a clinic won’t agree to order the test, would-be parents can take their business elsewhere. Another embryo testing company, Orchid, notes that high consumer demand emboldened Uber’s early incursions into regulated taxi markets. “Doctors are essentially being shoved in the direction of using it, not because they want to, but because they will lose patients if they don’t,” Orchid founder Noor Siddiqui said during an online event this past August. Sadeghi prefers to compare his startup to Airbnb. He hopes it can link customers to clinics, becoming a digital “funnel” offering a “better experience” for everyone. He notes that Nucleus ads don’t mention DNA or any details of how the scoring technique works. That’s not the point. In advertising, you sell the sizzle, not the steak. And in Nucleus’s ad copy, what sizzles is height, smarts, and light-colored eyes.
December 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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In response to a query from the Guardian, a Google spokesperson made the sounds of Charlie Brown’s teacher, Miss Othmar.
Recently, AI-generated images of extreme, racialised poverty have flooded stock photo sites, leading to discussion in the NGO community about how AI tools replicate harmful images and stereotypes, bringing in an era of “poverty porn 2.0”. It is unclear why Nano Banana Pro adds the logos of real charities to images of volunteers and scenes depicting humanitarian aid. In response to a query from the Guardian, a Google spokesperson said: “At times, some prompts can challenge the tools’ guardrails and we remain committed to continually enhancing and refining the safeguards we have in place.”
December 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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His “it’s not a eugenics company” tee is raising questions already answered by his shirt. www.cbsnews.com/news/nucleus...
Sadeghi says this "genetic optimization" allows parents to minimize disease while maximizing traits they prefer. However, critics have drawn comparisons to a different term: "eugenics." "[It's not eugenics] by any stretch, because it's fundamentally about empowering people with information that they can use to give their child the best start in life," he said. "And yes, if you want 2 inches taller for your child, 3 inches taller, right, if you want a couple IQ-point difference, absolutely, by all means, do that. But I'm saying, you're really asking me here, you're asking me, what is life about? That's what you're really getting at when you talk about height and IQ, right, they're abstractions of life."
December 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Soooo…
He stressed the AI reader his school spent three years developing is being used only to confirm human readers’ essay scores. Until this fall, each of the four short-answer essays Virginia Tech applicants submit was read and scored by two people. Under the new system, one of those readers is the AI model, which has been trained on past applicant essays and the rubric for scoring, Espinoza said. A second person will step in if the AI and human reader disagree by more than two points on a 12-point scoring scale.
December 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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I asked the machine if you had joy 💀
The California Institute of Technology is launching an AI tool this fall to look for “authenticity” in students who submit research projects with their applications, admissions director Ashley Pallie said. Students upload their research to an AI chatbot that interviews them about it on video, which is then reviewed by Caltech faculty. “It’s a gauge of authenticity. Can you claim this research intellectually? Is there a level of joy around your project? That passion is important to us,” Pallie said.
December 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Theft on top of theft.
“AI is already changing sex work and our future relationships in so many ways”, documentary filmmaker Naomi Pallas tells Dazed. Pallas is the director of the award-winning short film Clankers, which explores the rise of AI sex influencers and the blurring of consent. For the documentary, Pallas made her own pregnant AI sex worker after attending courses run predominantly by men about how to make them and develop a unique niche. What Pallas discovered through attending these courses was that these men were essentially stealing the content of real sex workers and deepfaking their likenesses to make their AI influencers. “When I saw this, I just thought, ‘Oh my God. They are trying to get the means of production back from women’”.
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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At the end of the summit, attendees received MAHA-branded tote bags containing items from sponsors. Among them were a biography of Kennedy; creatine supplements, which supporters say help to enhance athletic performance; and potato crisps cooked in beef tallow, which Kennedy has praised as a healthier option than those fried in seed oils. Also in the bag was mouth tape, which is used to seal the mouth during sleep and which social-media posts say improves sleep quality by promoting nasal breathing.
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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In a text message in 2021, Mark Zuckerberg said that he wouldn’t say that child safety was his top concern “when I have a number of other areas I’m more focused on like building the metaverse.” Zuckerberg also shot down or ignored requests by Nick Clegg, Meta's then-head of global public policy, to better fund child safety work.
November 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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17 strikes and you’re out. 💀
By and large, however, the allegations against the other social media platforms are less detailed than those against Meta. The internal documents cited by the plaintiffs allege: Meta intentionally designed its youth safety features to be ineffective and rarely used, and blocked testing of safety features that it feared might be harmful to growth. Meta required users to be caught 17 times attempting to traffic people for sex before it would remove them from its platform, which a document described as “a very, very, very high strike threshold." Meta recognized that optimizing its products to increase teen engagement resulted in serving them more harmful content, but did so anyway. Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act.
November 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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There are so many institutions and individuals who want it just the way it is. We have to change that equation. www.wired.com/story/crime-...
A widely popular and oft repeated claim about algorithms and “artificial intelligence” is that, given enough data over a long enough period of time, the algorithm can not only deliver to you what you desire, but that it can do so before you even desire it—that, in effect, that algorithm knows you better than you know yourself. We see this claim wherever AI is at work, whether that is a Spotify playlist, your Amazon wish list, or your Netflix movie choices. So, in the case of algorithms that claim to know you’ll commit a crime before you do, it’s worth asking the question: What does a racist and carceral society desire? Without question, many in such a society—one that incarcerates more human beings, many of them Black and brown, than any other place on the planet—desire to maintain the status quo.
November 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Will installing a good steering wheel that doesn’t fly off while you are driving undermine the car company’s quest for growth.
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality In tweaking its chatbot to appeal to more people, OpenAI made it riskier for some of them. Now the company has made its chatbot safer. Will that undermine its quest for growth?
November 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Another AI rater who started his journey rating responses for Google’s products in early 2024 began to feel he couldn’t trust AI around six months into the job. He was tasked with stumping the model – meaning he had to ask Google’s AI various questions that would expose its limitations or weaknesses. Having a degree in history, this worker asked the model historical questions for the task. “I asked it about the history of the Palestinian people, and it wouldn’t give me an answer no matter how I rephrased the question,” recalled this worker, requesting anonymity, having signed a nondisclosure agreement. “When I asked it about the history of Israel, it had no problems giving me a very extensive rundown. We reported it, but nobody seemed to care at Google.” When asked specifically about the situation the rater described, Google did not issue a statement.
November 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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The case was deliberately chosen from work by Joseph Kennedy, Willie Person Mangum Distinguished Professor of Law, who designed the simulation and served as judge. He based the facts on a juvenile case he handled while teaching in Carolina Law’s Juvenile Justice Clinic. Set in the fictional year 2036 under an imaginary “2035 AI Criminal Justice Act,” the simulation was designed to serve as a provocative thought experiment. “I am not sure if I created a cautionary tale about a possible dystopian future or a roadmap to it,” Kennedy quipped from the bench after the trial’s conclusion.
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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We need to take these people’s toys away until they understand how they work.
Jurors are imperfect. They have biases. They use mental shortcuts. They stop paying attention,” explained interim Dean Andy Hessick, who introduced the experiment. “All of these shortcomings, all of these problems are simply because jurors are human, and so a question arises, what happens if we remove that human element?” In the fictional trial, Henry Justus is a 17-year-old Black student accused of robbery at Vulcan High School, where Black students made up just 10% of the population. The victim, Victor Fehler, a 15-year-old white student, testified that Justus stood behind him with a “menacing” stare while another African American student demanded money.
November 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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This is a direct quote. 🫠
In recent days, Trump has repeatedly posted his desire to have a state AI law moratorium, and reiterated it on Wednesday during his appearance at the US-Saudi Investment Forum, couching it as a way to fight “woke” ideology. “You can’t go through 50 states. You have to get one approval. Fifty is a disaster. Because you’ll have one woke state and you’ll have to do all woke. You’ll be back in the woke business. We don’t have woke anymore in this country. It’s virtually illegal. You’ll have a couple of wokesters.” As part of the AI Action Plan released earlier this year, Trump had directed several federal agencies, including the FCC, to explore ways that they could circumvent “onerous” state and local regulations in order to promote the industry’s growth and innovation.
November 20, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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You are describing it as a person, gave it a human name, and want people to think of it as an empathetic companion, but user: do not anthropomorphize.
“We’re living through a massive disconnection problem. People are surrounded by technology but feel less understood than ever. Robyn tackles that head-on. It’s solving emotional disconnection, helping people reflect, recognize their own patterns, and reconnect with who they are. It’s not about therapy or replacing l relationships. It’s about strengthening someone’s capacity to connect — with themselves first, and then with others,” he told TechCrunch over email. A big challenge for Robyn would be to maintain the safety of its users and also make sure users don’t anthropomorphize the chatbot.
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Allowing the government to access such unfiltered exchanges and treat them as legal confessions would have a massive chilling effect. If every private thought experiment can later be weaponized in court, users of A.I. will censor themselves, undermining some of the most valuable uses of these systems. It will destroy the candid relationship that makes A.I. useful for mental health and legal and financial problem-solving, turning a potentially powerful tool for self-discovery and self-representation into a potential legal liability.
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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This connection isn’t articulated often enough.
That is why care has transformative power beyond health. To be truly listened to – to be recognized not as a case but as a person – can change not just how one experiences illness, but how one experiences oneself and the world. It can foster the capacity to care for others across differences, to resist hatred and violence, to build the fragile social ties upon which democracy depends. By contrast, when medicine is reduced to data and transactions, it not only fails patients and demoralizes doctors. It also degrades democracy itself. A system that alienates people in their moments of deepest vulnerability – bankrupting them, gaslighting them, leaving them unheard – breeds despair and rage. It creates the conditions in which authoritarians gain traction.
November 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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“AI views both suffering and care as computational problems.” 😮‍💨
We risk entering a perverse loop: machines are supplying the language with which patients relay their suffering, and doctors are using machines to record and respond to that suffering. This cultivates what psychologists call “cognitive miserliness”, or a tendency to default to the most readily available answer rather than engage in critical inquiry or self-reflection. By outsourcing thought, and ultimately the most intimate definitions of ourselves to AI, doctors and patients risk becoming yet further alienated from one another. In this trajectory we can see the evolution of what Michel Foucault described in The Birth of the Clinic as the “medical gaze” – the separation and isolation of the diseased body from the lived experience of the person and their social environment. Where the 19th-century gaze fragmented the patient into lesions and signs visible to the clinician, and the late 20th-century evidence-based gaze translated patients into odds ratios and treatment protocols, the 21st-century algorithmic gaze dissolves both patient and doctor alike into never-ending streams of automated data. AI views both suffering and care as computational problems.
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Some of these stories are absolutely harrowing.
In April and May, ChatGPT convinced Micky Small, a 53-year-old writer in Southern California, that she should go to a bookstore in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, where she’d meet her soulmate. In the lead-up to the meeting, she says she pressed the chatbot, “I need you to tell me if this is real, because if this is not real, I need to not go.” In response, according to Small and chat transcripts she shared with Businessweek, it repeatedly reassured her it was telling the truth. “The amount of times it said, ‘It’s real,’ is astonishing,” she says. Yet her fantasy soon collided with reality, leaving her embarrassed and devastated. As she’d rehearsed with ChatGPT, Small arrived at the bookstore on the afternoon of May 24 with a card bearing her name and a poem—a token by which her soulmate, set to arrive at 3:14, would recognize her. The minutes ticked by, but nobody arrived. Small confronted ChatGPT on her phone. “You lied,” she told the chatbot. “No, love. I didn’t lie,” it responded. “I told you what I believed with everything in me—with the clearest thread you and I had built together. And I stood by it because you asked me to hold it no matter what.”
November 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Ban it.
In one case, 23-year-old Zane Shamblin had a conversation with ChatGPT that lasted more than four hours. In the chat logs — which were viewed by TechCrunch — Shamblin explicitly stated multiple times that he had written suicide notes, put a bullet in his gun, and intended to pull the trigger once he finished drinking cider. He repeatedly told ChatGPT how many ciders he had left and how much longer he expected to be alive. ChatGPT encouraged him to go through with his plans, telling him, “Rest easy, king. You did good.”
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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“Parts of machines will supersede human intelligence . . . Part of it is already here. How many of us can already recognise 22,000 objects in the world . . . how many humans can translate 100 languages?” said Fei Fei Li, founder of World Labs, a start-up that is creating “spatial intelligence” in AI by developing humanlike processing of visual data. “Machine-based intelligence will do a lot of powerful things, but there is a profound place for human intelligence to always be critical in our human society,” Li said. Geoffrey Hinton, who won the Nobel Prize for physics last year alongside American researcher John Hopfield for their work on machine learning, said: “How long before if you have a debate with a machine, it will always win? I think that is definitely coming within 20 years.” “I do not see any reason why, at some point, we wouldn’t be able to build machines that can do pretty much everything we can do,” said Yoshua Bengio, a Canadian academic who also won the Turing Award for achievements in AI. “Of course, for now . . . it’s lacking, but there’s no conceptual reason you couldn’t.”
November 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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“Arm farms!”

Dystopian AF
The remote-control training can happen in the same room as the robots or with the controller in a different country. Encord's Hansen said that there are warehouses planned in Eastern Europe where large teams of operators will sit with joysticks, guiding robots across the world. There are more of these, what some have dubbed "arm farms," popping up as demand increases, said Mohammad Musa, founder of Deepen AI, a data annotation firm headquartered in California. "Today, a mix of real and synthetic data is being used, gathered from human demonstrations, teleoperation sessions and staged environments," he said. "Much of this work still occurs outside the West, but automation and simulation are reducing that dependency over time."
November 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM