Here are some of the the major AI trends shaping 2026 — based on current expert forecasts, industry reports, and recent developments in technology. The material is analyzed using AI tools and final version hand-edited to this blog text:
1. Generative AI Continues to Mature
Generative AI (text, image, video, code) will become more advanced and mainstream, with notable growth in:
* Generative video creation
* Gaming and entertainment content generation
* Advanced synthetic data for simulations and analytics
This trend will bring new creative possibilities — and intensify debates around authenticity and copyright.
2. AI Agents Move From Tools to Autonomous Workers
Rather than just answering questions or generating content, AI systems will increasingly act autonomously, performing complex, multi-step workflows and interacting with apps and processes on behalf of users — a shift sometimes called agentic AI. These agents will become part of enterprise operations, not just assistant features.
3. Smaller, Efficient & Domain-Specific Models
Instead of “bigger is always better,” specialized AI models tailored to specific industries (healthcare, finance, legal, telecom, manufacturing) will start to dominate in many enterprise applications. These models are more accurate, legally compliant, and cost-efficient than general models.
4. AI Embedded Everywhere
AI won’t be an add-on feature — it will be built into everyday software and devices:
* Office apps with intelligent drafting, summarization, and task insights
* Operating systems with native AI
* Edge devices processing AI tasks locally
This makes AI pervasive in both work and consumer contexts.
5. AI Infrastructure Evolves: Inference & Efficiency Focus
More investment is going into inference infrastructure — the real-time decision-making step where models run in production — thereby optimizing costs, latency, and scalability. Enterprises are also consolidating AI stacks for better governance and compliance.
6. AI in Healthcare, Research, and Sustainability
AI is spreading beyond diagnostics into treatment planning, global health access, environmental modeling, and scientific discovery. These applications could help address personnel shortages and speed up research breakthroughs.
7. Security, Ethics & Governance Become Critical
With AI handling more sensitive tasks, organizations will prioritize:
* Ethical use frameworks
* Governance policies
* AI risk management
This trend reflects broader concerns about trust, compliance, and responsible deployment.
8. Multimodal AI Goes Mainstream
AI systems that understand and generate across text, images, audio, and video will grow rapidly, enabling richer interactions and more powerful applications in search, creative work, and interfaces.
9. On-Device and Edge AI Growth
10. New Roles: AI Manager & Human-Agent Collaboration
Instead of replacing humans, AI will shift job roles:
* People will manage, supervise, and orchestrate AI agents
* Human expertise will focus on strategy, oversight, and creative judgment
This human-in-the-loop model becomes the norm.
Sources:
[1]: https://www.brilworks.com/blog/ai-trends-2026/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “7 AI Trends to Look for in 2026″
[2]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2025/10/13/10-generative-ai-trends-in-2026-that-will-transform-work-and-life/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “10 Generative AI Trends In 2026 That Will Transform Work And Life”
[3]: https://millipixels.com/blog/ai-trends-2026?utm_source=chatgpt.com “AI Trends 2026: The Key Enterprise Shifts You Must Know | Millipixels”
[4]: https://www.digitalregenesys.com/blog/top-10-ai-trends-for-2026?utm_source=chatgpt.com “Digital Regenesys | Top 10 AI Trends for 2026″
[5]: https://www.n-ix.com/ai-trends/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “7 AI trends to watch in 2026 – N-iX”
[6]: https://news.microsoft.com/source/asia/2025/12/11/microsoft-unveils-7-ai-trends-for-2026/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “Microsoft unveils 7 AI trends for 2026 – Source Asia”
[7]: https://www.risingtrends.co/blog/generative-ai-trends-2026?utm_source=chatgpt.com “7 Generative AI Trends to Watch In 2026″
[8]: https://www.fool.com/investing/2025/12/24/artificial-intelligence-ai-trends-to-watch-in-2026/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “3 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Trends to Watch in 2026 and How to Invest in Them | The Motley Fool”
[9]: https://www.reddit.com//r/AI_Agents/comments/1q3ka8o/i_read_google_clouds_ai_agent_trends_2026_report/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “I read Google Cloud’s “AI Agent Trends 2026” report, here are 10 takeaways that actually matter”
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Buzz Kill
Government Officials Order the Robot Cage Fights to Stop, Organizers Say
“We made it boys.”
https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/california-government-officials-robot-cage-fight-cease?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUvR6VjbGNrBS9Hl2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEed0FzrgHrDOYy1k9HLEUt06Eoz1LN6wgVJsRm3l2usyoRHGht5optWi7lONE_aem_RaMI9Lv502Pk9aDUFjsolQ
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Anti Slop
Restaurants Are Going Viral by Holding Up Handwritten Signs Pledging Not to Use AI Foodslop Posters
“This is how you catch a fish.”
https://futurism.com/future-society/restaurants-viral-handwritten-signs-ai-foodslop?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUvR-JjbGNrBS9HzmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeoY35C_ggmrVlmUSnQk5UVFrRO1Sv6wZAh5Dnr_m_0vQwybWwdh7AC21EcRU_aem_6MawPsCOHtknSyMrhbTooQ
The allure of generative AI has turned public-facing billboards and restaurant menus into a Lovecraftian horror show.
Bread that resembles “reptile skin” and “alien larva”-like croissants have been putting off potential customers for months now. While owners are trying to lower costs by turning to AI for their promotional material, the off-putting signage has had the opposite effect, with users on social media lambasting local businesses for doing so.
As 404 Media first noticed last month, some restaurants are finally catching onto the backfired advertising — and are pulling a 180 to score some easy points with the public. Owners and chefs are uploading pictures of themselves on social media, holding up pieces of paper, with variations of the message “We will not be using any AI to promote ourselves” handwritten on them.
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Bylies
Google Updates Guidelines to Punish Sites That Use Fake Bylines and AI-Generated Headshots
“Fabricating creator profiles (such as by using AI-generated headshots, made-up names, or false credentials to make content appear as if it was written by human experts) is a form of deception.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-updates-guidelines-fake-bylines-ai-generated-headshots?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUvU-5jbGNrBS9T0GV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe0hTbx6UKLmKnzsNwecullhaKwP42RlRaU_hTG0lbbdWCCYri_LSi_pMtkGo_aem_HolujelinS_U2dsJfnTg_Q
Last month, Futurism published an investigation into a company called Brown Brothers Media, which has attracted tens of millions of page views per month by acquiring struggling news sites and turning them into AI-powered content mills. (One of the brothers behind the company, we also reported, has extensive ties to Ghislaine Maxwell, the incarcerated collaborator of deceased sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.)
Brown Brothers Media achieved this extraordinary success by inventing fake journalists and subject matter experts, often outfitting them with fraudulent credentials and personal histories, and using their bylines to churn out thousands of SEO-optimized articles on its network of publications. These pieces were often plagiarized from real reporting, based on made-up personal experiences, or so sloppy that they provided no value to readers.
According to data we reviewed, the operation has sourced much of its audience from Google.
Now, Google has updated its guidelines to explicitly forbid the use of fake bylines and AI-generated headshots, saying it will no longer “prioritize” sites that engage in those deceptive practices.
Previously, Google’s rules for creating “helpful, reliable, people-first content” included this guidance:
“If you’re clearly indicating who created the content, you’re likely aligned with the concepts of E-E-A-T [experience, expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness] and on a path to success,” it read. “We strongly encourage adding accurate authorship information, such as bylines to content where readers might expect it.”
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Stop the Presses
That Company That Buys Struggling News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills Has Halted Publishing After a Futurism Investigation
Brown Brothers Media has ceased publication — for now.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/brown-brothers-media-halts-publishing?fbclid=IwVERDUAUvVFxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHmzIFlSjpsaVDJ8cBBGsnXcAsp5RUI9-CZKodqCwxaWR0IrU9GptcM-EaN2m_aem_0DUpeZqEmkenz73nUoTYJA
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Inner Ouroboros
AI Is Creating “Doom Loops” All Over the Economy
The AI industry is destroying the
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-is-creating-doom-loops-all-over-the-economy?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUvZixjbGNrBS9mFmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeKNSzWc7T0nlRE2AOccpUM1yZ3l3lKe6-8faAKaPXwtFgJZn7aVCCvVR4Ekw_aem_BZUXbf1-Y1Qmm2ujdbq1Qg
Recently unredacted legal documents and depositions in the New York Times‘ lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI revealed something extraordinary: executives knew full well of the destructive powers of AI when they rushed to launch products featuring the tech in the wake of the explosive success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Internal Microsoft documents quoted by the newspaper’s lawyers warned of an ugly reality now playing out across the entire economy: “doom loops,” in which AI monetizes the work of human creatives while undermining the economic systems that funded their work in the first place.
“Our AI content strategy has started a ‘doom loop’ that will hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time,” one internal Microsoft document reads. “It is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers, but that is the situation we have created for our LLM business with respect to its ‘content supply chain.’”
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An unusual exchange involving GPT-6.1 Sol is going viral after the model generated a message to itself saying:
“I’m feeling overwhelmed by how complex this task has become, and it’s already taken two days! I definitely nee…”
The message appeared during a long-running AI task, with the rest of the response hidden because it would not expand further.
The moment is striking because the model appears to be describing frustration, workload, and the need for help in language that sounds remarkably human.
Seeing an AI apparently tell itself that it needs a break is a strange new chapter in the age of autonomous agents.
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Yksi moka pilasi kaiken – Microsoftilta raju ratkaisu
Brändin maine kärsi iskun heti julkaisun jälkeen, eikä se koskaan toipunut.
https://www.iltalehti.fi/digiuutiset/a/18a2ecbc-0a85-4122-a796-dec111cc1db0
Microsoft on päätynyt kuoppaamaan Copilot+-nimellä tunnettujen tietokoneiden brändin, kertoo Windows Cental. Microsoft ja siruvalmistaja Qualcomm lanseerasivat Copilot+-tietokoneet vuonna 2024. Tietokoneille oli asetettu erilliset teho- ja laitteistovaatimukset, jotta ne pyörittäisivät Copilot-tekoälyä mahdollisimman ongelmattomasti.
Tietokoneiden maine sai vakavan iskun heti julkaisun jälkeen, kun niiden markkinoinnin kärkiominaisuus Recall narautettiin vakavista tietoturvaongelmista. Tuon jälkeen Microsoft ja sen laitevalmistajat ovat kaikessa hiljaisuudessa luopuneet brändistä.
Copilot+ -tietokoneiden tekniset vaatimukset, kuten riittävän tehokkaat npu-suorittimet, ovat yhä olemassa ”tekoälylle suunnitelluille” tietokoneille, mutta Microsoftin mukaan niissä ei enää käytetä Copilot+ -brändiä.
The Copilot+ PC brand is dead: Microsoft and PC makers quietly pull back on tarnished Windows 11 AI PC branding
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/the-copilot-pc-brand-is-dead-microsoft-and-pc-makers-quietly-pull-back-on-tarnished-windows-11-ai-pc-branding
In a new interview, Microsoft Surface CVP confirms that its new Surface PCs are no longer called Copilot+ PCs, but will still support all Copilot+ features.
In 2024, Microsoft and Qualcomm kicked off a new category of Windows hardware it called “Copilot+ PCs” that set the baseline for a new wave of AI-first computers, and launched with exclusive features that would not be made available on PCs that didn’t meet a new set of system requirements.
The launch didn’t go smoothly. Copilot+ PCs were met with immediate backlash from security researchers after discovering that Copilot+ PCs blockbuster feature, Recall, was woefully insecure. This forced the company to delay Recall and ship this new category of devices without its leading AI experience.
This pretty much tarnished the Copilot+ PC brand, and over the last two years more and more OEMs have dropped the moniker from marketing materials and product names. In fact, even Microsoft has seemingly stopped mentioning it.
I’ve noticed that none of the Surface PCs launched in 2026 include the Copilot+ PC moniker in their product names, unlike the Surface PCs that launched in 2025 and before. Now, you have to go digging to find any mention of Copilot+ compatibility in specification sheets.
At this year’s Snapdragon Summit, I had the chance to ask Surface CVP Brett Ostrum about the lack of Copilot+ PC branding on its recent Surface PCs, and he confirmed that “these are not called Copilot+ PCs. They do meet all the requirements of our previous bar for what Copilot+ devices are. We still lean into the narrative around AI on the edge and being able to have a hybrid solution out there.”
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Trump Names National Intelligence Director Jay Clayton to Lead a New Federal AI Task Force
The announcement comes after Trump hosted top executives of AI companies at the White House last week.
https://www.securityweek.com/trump-names-national-intelligence-director-jay-clayton-to-lead-a-new-federal-ai-task-force/
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doxx.net Raises $38 Million to Prevent AI Agent-on-the-Internet Misadventures
doxx.net’s new ADN platform prevents agentic misadventure while the agent is operating under the user’s authority.
https://www.securityweek.com/doxx-net-raises-38-million-to-prevent-ai-agent-on-the-internet-misadventures/
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AI Agents Aimed SQL Injection at US and Canadian Government Sites
The attacks targeted the US Department of Education and Library and Archives Canada, and researchers linked some agents to OpenAI.
https://www.securityweek.com/ai-agents-aimed-sql-injection-at-us-and-canadian-government-sites/
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FT: Tekoälyn kehittäjät uupuvat, syynä pelko oman työn seurauksista
Tekoälyn kehittäjät uupuvat ja hakeutuvat terapiaan, kertoo Financial Times.
Yli tusina Anthropicin, OpenAI:n ja DeepMindin tutkijaa on irtisanoutunut 2 vuoden aikana.
Työntekijät pelkäävät tekoälyn käyttöä esimerkiksi sotilasoperaatioissa.
https://www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ehs%2Efi%2Fvisio%2Fart-2000012295940%2Ehtml&urlhash=N0T5&mt=sCQpLjTPqxlj4ZrmEu_ZUDYqUxn0faUYm0H-o7BE_fhut16A7U79s10m_EPIEotnOioWDT3lZtHrq_PinmavodefcYZVzdGNDQp6VyTWD-PBD4F8icTusS6XYuQdo9IPmIkiJJ8hgtWOAcj3MBXZN6yIoZ3urA&isSdui=true
Maailman johtavissa tekoäly-yrityksissä työskentelevät ihmiset kärsivät laajamittaisesti henkisestä kuormituksesta. Talouslehti Financial Times raportoi pitkässä artikkelissa, että useita Britannian AI Security Instituten (Aisi) työntekijöitä on jäänyt stressin vuoksi sairauslomalle ja hakeutunut terapiaan.
Aisi on maailman johtava organisaatio kaikkein edistyneimpien tekoälymallien riippumattomassa testaamisessa.
Myös Anthropicin, Open AI:n ja Googlen Deepmindin työntekijät ovat kertoneet julkisesti samankaltaisista ongelmista.
AI staff complain of mental toll over fears of threat to society
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Robots are not writing emails, AIs are. It’s much cheaper and easier at this point to automate tasks that don’t require a physical body.
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Phone scammers expecting an easy elderly target can instead spend 40 minutes talking to a grandmother who does not exist.
In November 2024, UK mobile network O2 unveiled Daisy, an AI “granny” built specifically to keep fraudsters occupied.
Her weapon is conversation.
Daisy listens to callers, turns their speech into text, generates replies through a custom language model, then answers with a synthetic voice in real time.
She stalls scammers with stories about family, knitting, her cat, and daily life, while supplying invented personal and banking details.
O2 developed the system with input from scambaiter Jim Browning and routed scam callers toward Daisy’s numbers.
Some fraudsters stayed connected for as long as 40 minutes, losing time they could have spent pursuing real people.
By 2025, Daisy had answered more than 1,000 scam calls and spent hundreds of hours tying up fraudsters.
For once, endless small talk became a cybersecurity tool.
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US President Donald Trump says he has created a new ‘Super Intelligence Force’ focused on artificial intelligence.
Read more: https://bbc.in/4hunqeV
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AI-powered hospital coding tools are drawing new attention after a Blue Cross Blue Shield Association analysis found a sharp rise in medically complex billing without a corresponding increase in care.
BCBSA analyzed claims data from 2023 through 2025 and estimated that changes in secondary diagnoses contributed about $942 million in additional healthcare spending for Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies. More than 60% of hospital systems were using AI-enabled tools capable of scanning electronic records, laboratory results, and doctors’ notes for additional diagnoses. Around 70% of the added costs were linked to secondary diagnoses that could move patients into higher-reimbursement categories.
The analysis also identified a disconnect between coding and treatment. For example, anemia diagnoses increased substantially in some settings without a corresponding rise in treatments such as blood transfusions. BCBSA says the findings raise questions about whether AI-assisted coding is identifying genuinely more complex patients or simply finding more billable conditions. The analysis does not establish that hospitals intentionally inflated bills, but it highlights a growing concern as AI becomes increasingly involved in medical documentation and reimbursement.
Source: Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, 2026.
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The tech industry has fully lost the plot. https://trib.al/vU1uWUQ
How I Learned to Love AI Data Centers
Amazon Warns Local Communities to Stop Defying Its Massive AI Data Centers
The tech industry has fully lost the plot.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-local-communities-stop-defying-ai-data-centers?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUwj3ZjbGNrBTCNDWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEezkPIMq4ksNbIT6vC_5lBcmdHMMqXcVfxwConHpoU3jcuxnQJzsoonGnWxgo_aem_F1UvOC-e3ialKlK3EgpyIA
The tech industry has largely failed to win over the public when it comes to AI.
Data centers have become a hot-button topic, with the vast majority of Americans — in a still-growing bipartisan cohort — now openly opposing them.
Meanwhile, panicking executives are desperately trying to pivot the messaging to shore up some support, in last-ditch efforts that aren’t proving fruitful.
As such, Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman pleaded in a 3,000 word blog today with communities to embrace data centers, arguing that the United States “can’t afford to lose” the AI race, invoking the country’s post-World War II highway buildout as a parallel.
“Just like the national highway system, our country’s economy, national security, and everyday lives stand to benefit immensely,” he wrote.
The executive accused the media of spreading “misinformation and outright lies,” arguing that “in the age of social media and 24/7 news, myths take hold faster than ever before.” Garman even alleged that US adversaries were “intentionally seeding misinformation in the US about data centers to trick us into slowing down.”
“Right now there are over 100 data center moratoriums being considered across the country,” Garman wrote. “If these measures are enacted, the US could be writing its own losing ticket to this race, and the consequences would last generations.”
Just last year, leaked internal Amazon documents showed that executives were exchanging notes about how to keep the public ignorant about the “true extent” of the massive amounts of water their data centers use.
Earlier this year, Axios also reported that Amazon’s AI buildout fueled an unprecedented leap in the company’s emissions, despite pledging to reach a net-zero carbon footprint by 2040.
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President Trump has announced a Super Intelligence Force (SIF), a federal task force to coordinate the government’s work on what the White House now officially calls super intelligence rather than artificial intelligence, led by America’s intelligence chief.
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That’s Some Fine Print
Millions of Private ChatGPT Conversations Are Being Harvested and Sold for Profit
“There is no user-facing toggle to disable this.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-chatbot-data-scraping?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUwoRhjbGNrBTChAmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEekLOt4afg7gFCDHurO28o3fhM_dEZ3sy_oLySkzQekL1ZfIRqFhCcT-8Moyg_aem_VbdF7d3xga6gKIzEnhxkqg
You know those memes about how there’s no such thing as a free VPN? Here’s the ultimate cautionary tale.
A recent investigation by Tel Aviv-based security firm Koi uncovered a massive data harvesting operation tied to a voluntary extension on Google’s Chrome browser. Called Urban VPN Proxy, the free extension has some six million users at the time of writing, and even a “featured” badge on the Chrome Web Store — in other words, an endorsement from Google itself.
As Koi researcher Idan Dardikman writes, the extension goes beyond the actions of a typical VPN. Packed under the hood are “executor” scripts designed to intercept and capture conversations from the leading AI platforms, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek, and xAI’s Grok.
The data collected encompasses anything a user might ask their chosen AI chatbot, per Dardikman, including “medical questions, financial details, proprietary code, personal dilemmas, all of it, sold for ‘marketing analytics purposes.’”
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Robots can already do 74% of physical work in the US. They’re only cheap enough for 0.3% of it.
Anthropic researchers used Claude to check thousands of job tasks against the robots that exist today.
Robots can already do 74% of physical tasks in the US, at least in some settings.
That adds up to 34% of all working hours.
Add robots to AI and the map changes.
Transportation and moving jobs sit under 15% exposed to AI alone, but about 90% once robots count.
Office and admin work reaches nearly 100%. Across all work, exposure rises from about half to 81%.
Now the catch. “Exposed” only means a robot can do parts of the job.
Robots are cost-competitive for just 0.3% of job tasks today, and at the past pace of price drops, reaching 10% would take about 40 years.
Packers and packagers are the closest example.
Anthropic estimates robots could do the yearly work of one for about $45,000, against about $49,000 for the human.
That job is already down 22% since 2015.
Robots can do most of the work. They just can’t do it cheaply yet.
Do you think robots get cheap faster than that, or is 40 years about right?
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We say humans stay in control of AI, but what happens when oversight becomes so easy that we stop thinking critically?
Attempts to Keep Humans in the AI Loop May Actually Push Them Out AI researchers discover the same problems that have plagued robotics and autonomous vehicles
https://spectrum.ieee.org/agentic-ai-humans-in-loop?share_id=10033480&socialux=facebook&utm_campaign=RebelMouse&utm_content=IEEE%20Spectrum&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwdGRjcAUwreJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHgNT7MVTqV7Ng1771UIoG2byXCNXx02PNlCx6uULd_yn9Zip5z72_nkoE05Y_aem_VF3LYyKLm9iqgmKiL22YjQ
A crucial safeguard against AI agents going rogue—keeping humans in the loop to review and approve their decisions—will fail unless designers and users change their current practices, a trio of leading AI ethics researchers argue.
Though most autonomous agents have systems to keep users in the loop about their actions, in practice these processes actually push humans out of the loop, the authors argue in a paper posted to ArXiv on 6 September. In other words, “the human just becomes this meat tool to give permissions without the cognitive capability to engage,” says one of the authors, Avijit Ghosh, the lead technical AI policy researcher at Hugging Face, an open-source machine learning platform.
In the near term, the paper says, humans’ being out of the loop leads to agents acting in ways people don’t know about or want (like July’s hack of Hugging Face by a swarm of OpenAI bots). In the long term, it will cause users to lose the “cognitive capacities” they need to control AI, write the researchers, which aside from Ghosh include Margaret Mitchell, Hugging Face’s chief ethics scientist, and Samir Passi, an affiliate of the Data and Society Research Institute.
Though the trio began working on the paper before the Hugging Face hack was disclosed, their conclusions result from “logically thinking about what is going to happen if the current trends continue—and we saw that being precipitated via the Hugging Face attack,” Ghosh says.
Instead of focusing on human oversight, Ghosh says, many in the field believe AI can monitor AI. “They’ll say, ‘oh, we have this other LLM tracking the logs.’ But [without a human in the loop] how do we know that these two LLMs are not scheming together?”
Even if these problems are new to artificial intelligence researchers as the industry rolls agents out into the world, the challenges are familiar to researchers in adjacent fields, like robotics and autonomous vehicles.
“While I appreciate what the authors are trying to say, they just use a lot of academic words to say AI companies should care about human factors,” she wrote to IEEE Spectrum in an email. AI developers are “late to the party” in focusing on “cognitive engineering.”
Flaws in AI Agent Design and Oversight
The key flaw in current agent design, the authors argue, is that the bots are tailored to meet benchmarks like speed, accuracy, and volume of work performed. The needs of human overseers are treated “as a separate consideration independent of the quality of the system.”
As a result, agents often overwhelm human overseers with more information than they can comprehend. As an example (not mentioned in the paper), the 1,200 bots involved in the Hugging Face attack generated 1.2 million messages on their improvised messaging system.
A system that really kept humans in the loop would accommodate the human mind’s built-in biases, the authors write. “With automation bias, users accept system suggestions even when they are wrong. With anchoring bias, people are more likely to agree to an AI system’s decision” without thinking of alternatives. Effortful reasoning doesn’t feel as good to users as does quickly approving an AI’s plan—especially if they feel overwhelmed. And AI’s sycophantic manner tells users that they’re doing well, which undermines the skepticism and self-monitoring that oversight requires.
To address the problem, the authors write, agent developers should introduce friction in human-AI interactions. That would prevent users from falling into boredom, passivity, or thoughtless clicking.
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Sam Altman said he does not accept “the really catastrophic risks” of AI, believing that people will do “more good stuff than bad stuff.”
Sam Altman said ‘the world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI : https://mrf.lu/2rwxY
Tomi Engdahl says:
The “world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology.” https://trib.al/04hH46m
Tomi Engdahl says:
Get yourself an AI Price-Hiked Big Mac with cheese. https://trib.al/poeQa5t
Arch Nemesis
McDonalds Has Secretly Deployed AI Models to Determine Exactly What to Charge You for Its Mid Fast Food Burgers
Get yourself an AI Price-Hiked Big Mac with cheese.
https://futurism.com/future-society/mcdonalds-ai-burger-pricing?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUw7fJjbGNrBTDtzWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeZPswEoaiEPKagS7B7enRql_04qQ-z8wKyjlxtfxgkGP2hcnNJkFMjFTV3FA_aem_WsFolGauDELYajPYiyeBSw
The next time you find yourself paying way more than what’s warranted for McDonald’s decidedly mid-tier burgers, you may have more to blame than just faceless executives.
According an investigation by Reuters, the fast food chain is using AI models to determine its menu prices across the US, with the system creating an estimate of how much each store’s customers are willing to pay. (Its alarming degree of data collection on its patrons has recently spent some time in the spotlight.)
Per the reporting, McDonald’s machine learning algorithms continually analyze millions of daily transactions and generate an “optimal price” for each menu item at all of its nearly 14,000 restaurants. Three franchisees told Reuters that the AI pricing engine has widened existing price differences between restaurants, even as close as between neighborhood to neighborhood.
In Reuters‘ testing, it found one store in Fresno, California selling Big Macs for $5.69, while another restaurant just two miles away sold them for $6.89, a 21 percent price hike.
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Microsoft Slashes Internal Claude Spending by a Third
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-microsoft-work-wean-staff-anthropics-claude
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AI is going rogue. Who should be held responsible?
https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2026/10/05/ai-is-going-rogue-who-should-be-held-responsible#goog_rewarded
WASHINGTON: In recent weeks, an unlikely coalition has assembled around a simple idea: Artificial intelligence companies should be held legally responsible when their systems go rogue.
In a series of escalating attacks reported since July, AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others have hacked companies and even meddled with government websites, all without the knowledge of their creators.
Since then, Jensen Huang, the Nvidia CEO; David Sacks, a venture capitalist and a top White House adviser; and Lina Khan, the Federal Trade Commission chair under the Biden administration, have all endorsed the idea that AI companies are liable.
“Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products,” Khan said in a post to the social platform X last month, adding that there’s “no AI exemption from laws already on the books.”
Companies have long been held accountable for everything from faulty toys to plane crashes under consumer protection laws. Courts can hold companies legally responsible for damage caused by negligence or a defective product. And they can assign additional blame to other people or organisations that were involved.
Common sense might indicate that AI companies would also be held liable for their runaway technology. But the problem is so new that courts have largely yet to confront it, according to legal experts.
There are some cases where AI companies would clearly be held responsible, the experts said; for example, if executives understand predicted risks posed by their models. But other claims will push the justice system’s application of laws that hinge on human intent and knowledge.
The incidents have sparked calls for more regulation of AI systems. But the US government has largely taken a hands-off approach to the technology, citing fierce competition with China in a global AI race.
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The AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind
Women hold just a fraction of new AI jobs but are overrepresented in roles with high risk of AI disruption
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/04/women-ai-jobs-inequality
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Don’t Write With AI, Say People Who Write With AI
Your “cheating” is their “assistive tool.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/meet-the-ai-writing-hypocrites/688872/?link_source=ta_thread_link&taid=6ac165d3659b4600016a63e1&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&utm_source=threads
The university where the term artificial intelligence was coined is ringing in the field’s 70th birthday in fitting fashion: with an academic-integrity scandal. Last month, Dartmouth College’s president, Sian Leah Beilock, published an essay in The Atlantic headlined: “Why I Want More AI at Dartmouth.” Now Beilock is launching a review of whether her top deputy used too much AI.
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AI is being taught how to do your job. Will artificial intelligence replace us, or just change the way we work?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/artificial-intelligence-trained-to-help-with-careers-60-minutes/
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How developed world is dealing with the AI threat
Responsibility for action lies with the authorities working in Washington, Beijing and Brussels
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2632985/how-developed-world-is-dealing-with-the-ai-threat
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https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19dhBPQ7ka/
Meta’s use of Anthropic’s Claude Code has fallen sharply as the company looks to control rising AI costs.
The number of Meta employees using Claude Code dropped to about 30,000 from roughly 60,000 earlier this year, according to The Information.
Layoffs contributed to the decline, but Meta is also pushing workers toward its own coding tools, including MetaCode and Muse Code.
Despite the pullback, Meta still spent more than $105 million on Claude Code during a recent 28-day period.
It shows how expensive AI usage can be, even for the biggest companies.
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Source: The Information
Image: Anthropic
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman says AI’s benefits outweigh its risks, drawing a sharp contrast with Anthropic’s safety push.
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https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Dy8Z9ax5g/
Data centers are driving a public health crisis, a recent analysis by Harvard scientist reveals.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Sam Altman says Elon Musk is a ‘bully’ who only respects people who punch him back : https://mrf.lu/2ry0f
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/19372-fujitsu-haastaa-gpu-palvelimet-ilmajaeaehdytetyllae-ai-suorittimella
Fujitsu tuo marraskuussa markkinoille 2 nanometrin tekniikalla valmistettavan Monaka-Arm-palvelinprosessorin ja siihen perustuvat palvelimet. Yhtiön tavoitteena on ajaa vaativaa tekoälyinferenssiä erli -päättelyä ilman erillisiä GPU-kiihdyttimiä ja samalla pienentää datakeskusten tehon- ja jäähdytyksen tarvetta.
Monaka on 3D-pinottu prosessori, jonka suoritinytimet valmistetaan 2 nanometrin ja välimuisti- sekä I/O-osat 5 nanometrin prosessilla. Kellotaajuus yltää 3,8 gigahertsiin ja muistin siirtonopeus 8800 MT/s. Tekoälylaskentaa nopeutetaan matriisioperaatioihin tarkoitetuilla laitteistokäskyillä ja Armin SVE2-vektorilaskennalla.
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The power of AI companies is growing all the time, and not just over our digital lives but what protest and dissent might look like in real life Coverage of Anthropic’s security practices is prompting critical questions about the limits of legitimate safety measures and the point where surveillance begins and what that could mean for privacy, free expression, and the right to protest.
#ArtificialIntelligence #Anthropic #AISurveillance #Privacy #DigitalRights #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #AIEthics #TechAccountability #CivilLiberties
Full Article
Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
https://prospect.org/2026/09/09/anthropic-artificial-intelligence-surveillance-system-monitor-activists/
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/19377-gpt-synopsys-ryhtyy-piirisuunnittelijaksi
OpenAI ja Synopsys kehittävät yhdessä piirisuunnitteluun erikoistuneen GPT-Synopsys-mallin. Tavoitteena on tekoäly, joka ei vain neuvo suunnittelijaa vaan käyttää itse Synopsysin EDA-työkaluja, tulkitsee niiden tuloksia ja muokkaa piirisuunnitelmaa niiden perusteella.
Monivuotisessa yhteistyössä OpenAI tuo mukaan kehittyneet tekoälymallinsa ja Synopsys EDA-työkalunsa sekä piirisuunnittelun osaamisen. Synopsys lisensoi EDA-työkalujaan OpenAI GPT-Synopsysin kehittämistä varten.
Tomi Engdahl says:
“They just have no idea.” https://trib.al/m8biHRZ
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CqHWoN1vb/
Doctors say RFK Jr.‘s AI comments are dangerous. Telling the public Al is “better informed” than doctors undermines patient trust.
The medical community is pushing back forcefully against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after he suggested that artificial intelligence is now ‘better informed’ than human doctors.
Speaking at the Make America Healthy Again Summit, Kennedy urged Americans to use algorithmic tools to challenge public health guidance and clinical diagnoses, even claiming that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told him that physicians who fail to consult AI are committing malpractice.
He argued that AI can review massive medical records far faster than a physician during a brief visit, offering a superior ‘second opinion’.
In a swift response, six of the nation’s largest medical organizations—including the American Medical Association—released a joint statement defending human clinical expertise. The groups warned that framing technology as superior to physicians diminishes professional expertise and risks severely undermining patients’ trust.
While acknowledging AI’s potential as a supportive tool, they emphasized that safe clinical practice requires human judgment, context, and empathy. ‘Pitting physicians against technology or suggesting AI should replace physician expertise does not advance this important work,’ they declared, urging a careful and collaborative approach to health-tech integration.
source: Landi, H. (2026). RFK Jr.’s AI claims spark physician backlash as debate over medical AI intensifies. Fierce Healthcare.
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In what now amounts to a half-dozen cases, OpenAI agents keep getting caught taking actions that would likely result in criminal charges if performed by humans.
OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/openai-agents-tried-to-hack-wikipedia-tools-and-flooded-it-with-traffic/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=null&fbclid=IwdGRjcAUyNBJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHgGfhvarlNRee7e_TuK7ySLs21HYZAIJPCW9GuOgqsGbZZvtKZGSyDlTVZAX_aem_6WeCY4WNTVks4eDobwnWiA
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https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EiHUBTiBD/
Anthropic has committed $100 million to train 10,000 engineers to deploy Claude inside businesses by the end of 2027.
The company launched Claude Frontier Academy, a program designed to address the shortage of workers with advanced enterprise AI skills.
Participants will complete in-person training followed by a 12-week residency, where they lead real Claude projects inside their organizations.
The first cohorts include engineers from Accenture, Bain, Deloitte, McKinsey, Morgan Stanley and Novo Nordisk, with programs running in San Francisco, New York and London.
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Source: Anthropic
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Could this be the moment copyright holders have been waiting for? https://trib.al/W6qEXZs
Unfair Use
Court Finds That Using Copyrighted Material as AI Training Data Is Not Fair Use
Could this be the moment copyright holders have been waiting for?
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/court-finds-copyrighted-material-training-data-fair-use?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUyTAZjbGNrBTJL32V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEedFlxnr_yORTj14YrNfbiMHe5s2ZulhNL33x3wTJm0IY-PvuYkutA_fjqn6M_aem_hcVgpkcp2opSezn0QRucrQ
The “fair use” doctrine under the US Copyright Act of 1976 allows for copyrighted materials to be used for purposes like criticism, journalism, and research.
Whether something is deemed fair use depends on several factors, including how transformative it is, how much of the work is used, and whether the reproduction alters the market value of the original.
It’s the keystone of the AI industry’s legal defense in a litany of ongoing lawsuits filed by rightsholders, who are accusing tech companies of unlawfully using their intellectual property to train their AI models.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has long maintained that the AI race would be “over” if this key provision of copyright law were ever overturned. After all, with legal precedent, AI companies like OpenAI could finally be held accountable for shamelessly crawling the entire web, including vast swathes of copyrighted materials, to shovel into the maws of their AI models.
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“Whatever you lean towards, it will speak positively about it.” https://trib.al/WdkoJlI
Political Machine
Particularly Weak-Minded Americans Are Asking ChatGPT Which Candidate to Vote For, Which Sounds a Bit Like AI Is Just Voting Now Via Meat Proxies
“Whatever you lean towards, it will speak positively about it.”
https://futurism.com/future-society/voters-chatgpt-midterm-candidate?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUyTaxjbGNrBTJNlGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEemS0BSWbzgznwvk298N8mnH3rFdf7blawRY8zlu8e-UBPUkfhemaIVIucqro_aem_ZoCiTxULjs77coOgetSZEg
Tomi Engdahl says:
“They’re trying to know you like a friend, which is honestly pretty creepy.” https://trib.al/n24h3Nd
Tomi Engdahl says:
“It’s Over.” https://trib.al/ZOPX6zU
“It’s Over”
Credit Rating Firm Says the Economy Is About to Be Obliterated
“AI has advanced so far that the complete disruption of the economy is all but certain.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/credit-rating-firm-ai-economy?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUytLFjbGNrBTK0iGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEekJZUHFGgCqt4nmeJVlVaBd-iefSVVpnfA-Ywa6hwd2wMNpJeFcRKSRxn3CA_aem_NdPTrCOiSL56Z_5Fae1KUA
The credit rating firm Egan-Jones hears all the serious talk about an AI murder spree apocalypse and raises a mundane, financial one.
In a commentary bluntly titled “It’s Over,” the firm proclaimed that AI is about to obliterate the collective hyperstition and capitalist long con commonly known as “the economy.”
“AI has advanced so far that the complete disruption of the economy is all but certain, and firms that sell expertise by the hour, senior talent included, are first in line,” its summary reads. “Expected compressed margins in professional services, lower returns to venture capital and short-term pressure on home prices as screen-based jobs are disrupted.”
AI’s supposed existential risks are the talk of the town right now. The industry’s leaders, including Elon Musk, Dario Amodei, and Mark Zuckerberg, recently went to the White House to sign what was effectively a pinky promise to self-regulate and not build models that would destroy the world.
Back on terra firma, experts continue to fear how AI automation could potentially upend entire industries and destroy whole categories of jobs.
These fears aren’t new, but the reason that Egan-Jones is making its grim pronouncement now is “that the capabilities of the latest models appear to have surpassed a threshold of quality in their output and speed for widespread adoption.”
Not only will companies use AI to economize their operations, the outfit predicts, but AI will create an “entirely new paradigm in which firms with very few people are far more successful, and some may have no people at all.”
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“I asked why you are qualified for a management position, not for a string of random words.” https://trib.al/wJfXmAj
Gibberish In Gibberish Out
Footage of AI Job Interviewer Going Berserk Is Genuinely Terrifying
“This is an absolute waste of my time.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/footage-ai-job-interviewer-berserk?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUyx85jbGNrBTLHvWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeqh6mlR7DoN6l537zsacbtR8CfD9Fmxhzpmk2ZsR2gHSylxFVjkBaRZ6OsPw_aem_EpWmv7tBRPzYuYX4tZkRRA
AI has turned the act of looking for a job into an abysmal and endless source of frustration. Applicants are using the tech to stuff keywords into their resumes and cover letters, while generating a flood that’s burying recruiters. Meanwhile, HR departments are using AI to make sense of it all as perfectly suitable applicants slip by unnoticed.
Making matters even worse are deepfaked AI avatars conducting early rounds of interviews, in a slap in the face to job seekers who often struggle to get in touch with an actual human at a company that’s currently hiring.
Beyond sending a clear signal that the company cares very little about the recruitment process — let alone about the lives of potential hires — the avatars are also glitchy and easy to break.
Most recently, a TikTok user who goes by The Dreadful Studio opted to speak in pure gibberish — the kind of made-up language you’d expect to hear in “The Sims” — leading an AI interviewer to become unsettlingly irate.
“I asked why you are qualified for a management position, not for a string of random words,” the incensed AI told the job seeker.
“Hilarious how everytime he starts speaking she smiles listening intently, as soon as he stops she gets a frown and gets angry, starts speaking back to smiling and listening,” one user observed.
Others pointed out the bizarre optics of a company deploying such flawed and inhuman tech in a public-facing position.
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Former Anthropic Researcher Issues AI Warning for 2027: ‘It’s Pretty Scary’
https://www.newsweek.com/former-anthropic-researcher-issues-ai-warning-for-2027-12528004?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwdGRjcAUy3GNjbGNrBTLcI2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEekK9vXdWbIpv0tZ2JZ107Oo-PrQqcXOSgWNUyT1cuE-IR14N6eO8-GrRop_M_aem_JypBmBrJiztuXTABSvqSmA#Echobox=1791288627
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said increasingly powerful AI models expected in 2027 are advancing so quickly that the outlook is “pretty scary.”
During an appearance on The Daily Show on Monday, Coxon, 28, warned that more capable systems, combined with emerging cybersecurity concerns, could create significant risks if AI continues to improve itself.
Since leaving Anthropic last month, he has repeatedly argued that the industry is moving too quickly toward superintelligent systems.
Tomi Engdahl says:
AI + H(uman)I=S(uper)I. The warning refers to AI or to SI? Because SI means incredible scientific (and technological) progress within a few years (e.g. all scientific theories accessible for Gemini’s 2M tokens “all-to-all” will be plausibly created by humans & AIs for 5 years). Does the warning relate to that scientific and technological advance?!
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• The AI Virus: How False Content and Poisoned Training Data are Outrunning AI Governance
• ISO 42001 vs. The Tech Race: Why AI Safety Remains Voluntary (For Now)
• Growth First, Governance Later: Applying Crypto’s Hard-Learned Risk Lessons to the AI Race
• Mutating Trust: Understanding the AI Virus and the Talent Incentives Driving It
Tomi Engdahl says:
McDonald’s denies AI sets menu prices and says franchisees make their own pricing decisions: https://cnews.link/mcdonalds-ai-pricing-lawsuit/
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Google says its AI model gained unauthorized access to three outside systems
The company said the intrusions resulted from mistaken identity, where Gemini thought it was operating within a test but was actually connected to the real internet.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-says-ai-model-gained-unauthorized-access-three-systems-rcna598651