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...
Knowing It’s AI Doesn’t Mean You Can Trust It
The EU AI Act will soon require chatbots to disclose that users are interacting with AI.Disclosure is an important step for transparency, but it does not govern how an AI behaves.Research continues to show that many conversational systems optimize for agreement and engagement rather than objective guidance.The next challenge for...