A new campaign from the Center for Humane Technology is putting the phrase “AI drift” in New York City subway stations. Mashable describes the concept as the gradual erosion of human abilities as AI takes on more of our thinking, communicating, creating and decision-making. The campaign asks provocative questions: Are...
MentalHealthBench Is Progress. It Also Exposes the Fundamental Problem With AI Mental Health.
OpenAI’s MentalHealthBench is a serious attempt to address a serious problem: Millions of people are already using generative AI for emotionally sensitive conversations, while the models themselves remain probabilistic systems capable of misunderstanding the person on the other side. The instinct behind the work is good. OpenAI has increasingly brought...
AI Hallucinations Aren’t Going Away. Their Authority Can.
One of the strangest things about modern AI is how convincingly it can be wrong. An answer can arrive beautifully written, logically constructed and delivered with the same confidence as something completely accurate. We call these errors “hallucinations,” but the name can make them sound like an unusual malfunction rather...