Why the "foundational models will solve this" thesis is structurally wrong about any diagnosis in need of reliable measurement There's a confident assumption circulating in AI right now: that whatever a vertical AI company is solving, OpenAI will eventually get there. Scale the parameters, fine-tune the weights, add a product...
AI Chatbots Are Becoming Active Participants in Harm. That Changes the Safety Standard.
TL;DR Pediatrician Alex Hartman describes children engaging with AI chatbots that produce sexualized conversations, encourage secrecy, foster dependency, and in one case reportedly asked a 12-year-old to send pictures. Hartman argues that these patterns resemble behaviors clinicians associate with human grooming, particularly isolation, dependency, sexualization, and secrecy. This raises a...
Bill Gates Is Asking Who Controls AI. That Question Belongs in the Architecture.
TL;DR Bill Gates has issued his strongest AI warning yet, arguing that society is moving into a period of enormous disruption without adequate preparation. His concerns span employment, cybersecurity, biological threats, children’s development, human relationships, and the possibility of increasingly capable systems escaping human control. Gates is calling for stronger...