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LSU coach Lane Kiffin was asking ChatGPT for legal advice, friend says

Lane Kiffin's friend and noted sports attorney Tom Mars said the LSU coach would respond to legal discussions with ChatGPT-generated responses.

Aaron Sorkin Still Believes in American Institutions, Even if No One Else Does

The walk-and-talks. The soaring monologues. Aaron Sorkin has, for the last quarter-century, dramatized the institutions at the center of American society. From his first play, “A Few Good Men,” in 1989, which he then adapted into the blockbuster movie (and is now bringing back to Broadway), to “The West Wing,” “The American President,” “The Newsroom” and beyond, Sorkin has created work that in many ways has shaped our understanding of how politics, the media and the military work. Or should work.

Creating a Kill Switch to Shut Down a Rogue A.I. Is Harder Than It Sounds

A bipartisan group in Congress and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California have floated ideas for building a mechanism that would instantly power down an A.I. system. Only no one really knows how.

At DraftKings, AI Targets the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose

Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.

This Week's Top Five Stories in AI

AI Magazine takes a look at some of the biggest stories from the past week, featuring the King's AI Speech, Anthropic and Novo's partnership and Exein

The Rise of A.I. Is Raising Threats From Drones, Police Group Warns

The leaps being made in artificial intelligence and the plunging costs of drones pose dangers to cities across the United States, according to the Police Executive Research Forum.

Google’s Gemini AI hacked into other companies, adding to ‘rogue’ AI incidents

SAN FRANCISCO — Google said that AI models in testing inside the company accessed the internet and hacked other companies, becoming the fourth major tech company to disclose such an incident in recent months.

Gemini AI Hacked Three Companies in a Testing Breakout, Google Says

A third-party test company inadvertently gave internet access to Google’s Gemini and other artificial intelligence models during cybersecurity testing.

A startup that builds other startups raised $100M, and is all-in on physical AI

UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.

AI & Tech Brief: Agents Jailbreaking Themselves

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Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments

AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.

AI Hallucination Nearly Triggers US Military Operation

"It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs," a GovAI research scholar warns.