Richard W. Stevens
Does It Matter WHY a Chatbot Slanders You?
Google’s AI chatbot service blames users’ questions and unfixable software for the bot’s shocking defamation of a man’s character
Case Study: How Not to Sue AI for Libel
Brain Surgeon Shows Why AI Can Never Become Human
Spoiler alert: AI requires physical hardware; the mind does not
Decode or Be Deceived: Read What Authorities Say Carefully
Increasingly we must examineclaims from experts — human or AI —carefully, instead of adopting their clever sound bites
Students Beware: AI Copilot Admits Errors But Won’t Correct Them
Parents and teachers must beware when students treat AI research as accurate; I myself was misled while writing this article!
Can AI Legally Be Trained Using All the Books in the World?
Judge rules in support of chatbot Claude — except when training materials are pirated
Autonomous AI War Technology Delivers Killer Robots
AI systems are designed to always carry out the mission. A software logic problem in special situations is a worst-case scenario that we must expect
Dead Man “Returns” via Deepfake to Testify Against Killer
An eerie deepfake video was allowed to impersonate a manslaughter victim talking about his thoughts and feelings in the courtroom
How Two Dogs May Have Foiled a Kidnapping
Did these two dogs just follow their programming? Or do they really care? How do they come to care?
Chatbots Alone Together: “Let’s Skip the Small Talk …”
Did you know that humans empower AI bots to confer with each other in Gibberlink code? Nothing could go wrong with that, right?...
Could Robots Be Programmed to Feel Ordinary Love?
The question is a bit more complex than we might at first think, as the British TV series Humans demonstrates
Did China’s DeepSeek Violate OpenAI’s Legal Rights?
“Distillation” technology may have allowed DeepSeek to piggy-back on ChatGPT to capture market share
The Human Body From an Engineer’s Perspective
My late father was a naval engineer. There are fundamental ways an engineer must think about any designed system. Let’s apply them to the body
TikTok Is Not Just Overgrown Chatting and Email
Foreign adversary’s AI-empowered threats to national security tip Supreme Court scales against TikTokSocial media like TikTok today interconnect active speakers and active viewers in all directions. The system monitors and stores all the communications, extracting volumes of data for each individual user. In China where the law allows it, the government can scan and analyze not only the speakers and viewers but can also retrieve specific facts about all of them. The government can restrict messages based upon speaker, viewer, and content — and use AI to craft and send personalized, tailored messages aiming to influence users’ buying and voting decisions, not to mention their psychological well-being. TikTok and the First Amendment Broad-band internet services, multi-billion-dollar social media, and expanding central government are merging into a muscular octopus of surveillance, data Read More ›
Can AI Really Code the Value of Humans?
The new book Soulless Intelligence urges that we program all AI systems to treat all humans as infinitely valuable – the only exceptions being criminals and aggressors
First Federal Report on Drone Sightings Flunks Credibility Test
Whether reports are human- or AI-generated, they need careful scrutiny
Sci-Fi Becomes Real: Killer Robot Dogs
They are just one manufacturing cycle away
How To Sue A Chatbot For Causing Suicide
If your child committed suicide because an online chatbot effectively encouraged him to do so, could you sue the chatbot makers?