The new law would require telephone service providers to “at a minimum, obtain and retain the name, physical address, government issued identification number, and an alternate telephone number of any new and renewing customer before granting access to its services.”
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Computer vision systems already detect nudity and sexual activity. A malicious agent could sort victims in seconds.
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Rosenberg purports to cite pundits saying chatbot outputs are “AI slop,” that “the era of rapid AI advancement is ending,” that “AI scaling has hit the wall,” and the AI boom is just another “tech bubble.” No human is cited for these remarks.
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Chatbots aren’t necessities. Meanwhile, long-esteemed laws and rules of conduct forbade slander and libel because they can seriously harm people.
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I personally favor modernizing the civil laws against libel and defamation to take into account the type of injuries that chatbots can inflict.
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AI can never be more than a machine; the human mind soars far above any machine model. Be nice to your robot. But don’t think she is human.
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Research presented at a 2025 Microsoft Research meet finds that people tend to think less carefully and critically when they rely on GenAI and online sources.
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But here’s the punchline: I was wrong on an important point and Copilot let me stay wrong!
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The pirated digital book copies sank Anthropic on a fundamental point. It was not “fair use.”
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If Luckey’s Anduril becomes the world’s AI weapons superstore it can enable any well-funded entity anywhere to have autonomous weapons for whatever use.
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Bringing a deceased crime victim back to deliver a victim impact statement via deepfake video, ratchets up the reign of emotions over reason in the courtroom.
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Nobody knows how instinctive information develops in a dog, or where it is stored, or how it is fetched, decoded, or executed.
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Proposals to prevent misuse by “aligning AI behaviors with human intentions” confer no protection because some human intentions are themselves malign.
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An AI could act out romantic love if software preprogrammed it that way, perhaps via online information. But that isn’t a relationship. There is only one side.
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The complex legal wrangle continues but, in general, I would advise against treating AI products as legally equivalent to human products.
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The design of the human body, as Your Designed Body (2022) shows, offers many times more complex challenges than those of a ship.
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Social 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 ›
The life-and-death challenge we face is how to ensure that AI systems never “take over” or even make recommendations and decisions that endanger humans.
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The December 16 report raised more questions than answers. The December 17 report offered more information but there was still too much “Take our word for it!”
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Except for the fact that Boston Dynamics’ “Spot” does not wield a gun, it has the same capabilities as the dog in Metalhead. And a gun could be fitted privately.
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