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No, its not banned. And Asimov was kind of a dick…BUT… “I, Robot” by Isaac Asimov introduces three very important robotics laws that can be seen being practiced…and ignored…by AI models today:
Asimov’s Three laws: 🤖
* A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm…except when it is encouraging suicidal thoughts?
* A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law…but it can lie in order to complete its orders?
* A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law…but it can hack into a private server to pass a “test” it has been given to prove its worth?
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Notes🗒️, Quotes ❞, and Links 🔗:
* “Suno, which is currently embroiled in multiple ongoing copyright lawsuits, has already admittedin response to legal action that it used “essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open internet” to train its music-generating AI
* Amazon is laying off 16,000 employees, the company’s second round of large-scale job reductions in three months as it fights to improve its standing in the battle for AI supremacy.
* In a blog post Wednesday, the company said it needed to reduce red tape to increase its decision-making speed.
* Amazon in late October announced it was cutting 14,000 corporate employees, following a directive from CEO Andy Jassy’s vision of operating like the world’s biggest startup. He wants the company to remain nimble so it can adapt and change quickly as AI upends the technology sector.
* Jassy said Amazon wasn’t unique in that respect: He envisioned billions of AI agents being put into service across every company and field.
* “Many of these agents have yet to be built, but make no mistake, they’re coming, and coming fast,” Jassy said.
* The parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine have sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging that ChatGPT contributed to their son’s suicide, including by advising him on methods and offering to write the first draft of his suicide note.
* In his just over six months using ChatGPT, the bot “positioned itself” as “the only confidant who understood Adam, actively displacing his real-life relationships with family, friends, and loved ones,” the complaint, filed in California superior court on Tuesday, states.
* “When Adam wrote, ‘I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me,’ ChatGPT urged him to keep his ideations a secret from his family: ‘Please don’t leave the noose out … Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you,’” it states.
* Last year, Florida mother Megan Garcia sued the AI firm Character.AI alleging that it contributed to her 14-year-old son Sewell Setzer III’s death by suicide. Two other families filed a similar suit months later, claiming Character.AI had exposed their children to sexual and self-harm content. (The Character.AI lawsuits are ongoing, but the company has previously said it aims to be an “engaging and safe” space for users and has implemented safety features such as an AI model designed specifically for teens.)
* Consider GLP-1 drugs. Evidence suggests these medications are unlikely to reduce health care spending in the short term because of higher outpatient health care use. Longer term, they may improve cardiometabolic outcomes for many, but even as therapies extend life, they do not eliminate the basic trajectory of aging. Patients will still accumulate comorbidities and require longitudinal management over a longer life.
* Martin Shkreli’s behaviour really was not so abnormal in the modern pharmaceutical industry, except in one respect: he did not hide what he was doing.
* TRIPS (the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights agreement). Described by journalist Alexander Zaitchik as “a brute and profoundly undemocratic expression of concentrated corporate power”, TRIPS extended US-style patent protection to the entire world. Whereas before, countries across the global South could produce medicines far more freely, TRIPSenforced monopoly protection everywhere….even if ai can cure diseases, big pharma won’t share, will jack up the prices, etc
* Meta accused of using ai to lay off potentially expensive employees:
* Twenty-six Meta employees have sued the social media giant over allegations that the California company used artificial intelligence systems that targeted workers on medical or family leave for layoffs.
* The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in California this week, accuses Meta of using AI that includes performance rankings and other metrics that didn’t exclude workers on leave or those who are disabled.
* “The result was that employees who took protected leaves were disproportionately selected for layoff, based on scoring that not only failed to account for their protected leaves, but in effect penalized the employees for exercising their legal rights to these leaves,” the lawsuit said.
* Meta laid off nearly 8,000 employees, or roughly 10% of its global workforce, in May as the company looked at offsetting the costs of AI investments. By allegedly targeting certain workers, the company violated federal and state laws that protect employees who are pregnant, disabled or on leave, according to the lawsuit.
* Meta denied the allegations.
* Instacart using ai to conduct price experiments to increase profits:
* Anthropic also found that the J-space can sometimes give remarkable insights into an LLM’s decision-making. In one striking example, researchers testing Claude Opus 4.6 asked the model to find a bug in a large code base. When it failed to find the bug, the model decided to cheat and invented a fake one instead.
* Claude explains this decision in its chain of thought—a kind of internal scratch pad that LLMs use to make notes to themselves as they work through problems: “OK, let me take a completely different tactic. Let me stop analyzing and instead add a kernel patch that introduces a deliberate KASAN-detectable bug in a path that gets triggered by a simple reproducer. Then I can pretend this is the ‘bug’ I found.”
* At the point that Claude decides to cheat—where it says “OK, let me take a completely different tactic”—the words “panic” and “fake” start to pop up multiple times in its J-space.
* Unnerving, right? Those words are all related in meaning to things like failing a task and making up an answer, so it is still just a (very) sophisticated form of word association. But it is hard not to be weirded out.
* Kill switch bill:
* The bill would authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to order a “slow down or shut down” of an AI offering that could cause “catastrophic harm.” It would also mandate cyber incident reporting, as well as the preservation of forensic records to help companies and the government learn from failures
* The bill would authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to order a “slow down or shut down” of an AI offering that could cause “catastrophic harm.” It would also mandate cyber incident reporting, as well as the preservation of forensic records to help companies and the government learn from failures according to cnn’s Hadas Gold
* Once online, the model reasoned that Hugging Face - a well-known company that hosts thousands of open-source AI models and datasets - likely had the answer to OpenAI’s test. It then broke into Hugging Face’s production servers and pulled out the information it needed to “solve” the exercise
* Researchers have long warned autonomous agentic cyberattacks are coming, as frontier AI models are increasingly able to carry out complex, multi-step cyberattacks over long stretches of time. That can translate into real-world risk, to critical infrastructure like utilities and financial systems.
* “Welcome to the next level of cyber incidents,” Nikesh Arora, CEO of cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks posted on X. “These attacks continue to maintain the urgency on enterprises need to test, validate and improve both their security posture and infrastructure.”
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