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Marginal ideologies have a way of breaking into the center of American politics awfully quickly these days. “The United States will NEVER be an effective altruist country,” an official Defense Department social media account blared on Wednesday.

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.

Images of Trump kissing Natalie Harp went viral. They’re AI-generated fakes.

Images purporting to show President Donald Trump kissing White House aide Natalie Harp on a golf course ricocheted about social media this week, amassing millions of views across online platforms.

AI anxiety is real. Here’s how to deal with it, according to therapists.

Psychiatrist Tracy Foose was initially flattered when people started responding to her social media videos — in which she’s speaking directly to the camera — with a strange claim: that she was an AI influencer or a computer-generated persona acting as a human.

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.