A new investigation exposes the underpaid African workforce fueling global AI through outsourcing firms, raising concerns about tech companies distancing themselves from responsibility for exploitative labor practices by employing workers through third-party intermediaries.
An AI customer bot's 'hallucination' provided incorrect information, leading to user cancellations and raising concerns about over-reliance on AI for customer support, highlighting potential severe consequences as companies adopt autonomous AI agents, especially in regulated industries.
Instagram is employing AI technology to detect underage users who misrepresented their age, automatically enrolling them into a restricted 'Teen Account' with enhanced safeguards, while allowing users to correct any age misidentification errors.
A controversial AI startup, Cluely, raised $5.3M despite backlash over its unethical service enabling users to cheat on job interviews and dates using AI-generated responses, with the CEO proudly boasting over $3M in annual revenue from the cheating tool.
A renowned AI researcher's startup Mechanize, aiming to automate all jobs using AI agents, has sparked backlash over its ambitious mission to replace human workers and potential conflict with the founder's AI research institute Epoch.
Asimov's vision of AI as devices that can perform intelligent tasks will liberate humans from monotonous work, but we must proactively address the challenges AI may bring to society to mitigate potential unpleasantness.
The Department of Homeland Security is consolidating data from various agencies into a master database to enable real-time surveillance and tracking of undocumented immigrants, raising serious privacy concerns and fears of information being weaponized against vulnerable groups.
IBM VP David Cox warns that while language models appear intelligent, they lack true understanding, and the real risks of current AI systems are being overlooked amidst the hype around artificial general intelligence (AGI).
ChatGPT's new image analysis capabilities, while powerful, raise privacy concerns as users can potentially identify locations from photos, enabling reverse location tracking and doxxing, prompting OpenAI to implement safeguards against abuse.
Alarming reports reveal AI companies are exploiting actors' digital avatars, created from licensed likenesses, in questionable ads and propaganda, often through broad contract terms granting unrestricted rights over their images and voices.