Ppl are turning to #chatbots for financial advice, b/c they are accessible, affordable, sort-of knowledgeable, and non-judgemental, but they can miss crucial details and violate users #privacy, explains Kailyn Rhone www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b... #finance #AI

The US administration posted an #AI altered image of a protestor under arrest, to demean her publicly in advance of prosecution, in an escalation in the use of AI for partisan political purposes, explains Erica Green www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u... #politics

Some gov'ts are incorporating #chatbots in their #education programs, which can help with instruction and preparation of lessons but which raise concerns such as cognitive offloading, explains @natashanyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/t... #AI

Use of deceptive #AI generated video of candidates in a recent federal election in Georgia show how difficult it is for voters to tell what is real and to regulate political use of the technology, explains Christopher Harris www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news... #politics

A man wrongly arrested due to a false #FacialRecognition match at a Reno casino is suing the arresting police officer for not following due process, explains Philip Conneller www.casino.org/news/pepperm... #AI

#YouTube provides a "likeness detection" feature to identify #deepfakes that use images of creators but the company's policy may allow it to use that biometric data for other purposes, creating #privacy concerns, explains @zachvallese.bsky.social www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/y... #AI

A pornographic #deepfake of Cara Hunter was disturbing for her and damaged her run for political office, showing how #AI increases risks to women and barriers to political office, which laws are only beginning to address, explains Anna Moore www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i... #politics

It does a worse job than ppl, it increases crime, and threatens jobs. With all these things against it, how has the self-checkout become so ubiquitous? www.economist.com/business/202... #commerce #design

From asking people nicely to refrain to finding other methods entirely, companies struggle to deal with the tsunami of job applications fueled by #chatbots, which allow applicants to flood the zone, as it were www.economist.com/business/202... #AI #work #hiring

Return of the Glasshole! Some ppl are using Meta's Glasses to surreptitiously record others, raising #privacy concerns regarding individual users and Meta's uses of the data collected under Canadian law, explains Kevin Jiang www.thestar.com/business/tec... #AI

Its deal with #Microsoft on #AI development is not consistent with Canadian gov't policy to preserve "digital sovereignty" since the US gov't would gain control over Cdn data if it wanted to, argues @bhaggart.bsky.social theconversation.com/microsofts-a...

A recent online political campaign ad includes #AI generated images, which, though it includes a modest disclaimer, illustrates concerns over what counts as honest or appropriate campaign material, explains Reid J Epstein www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u... #politics #genAI

Research suggests that the design of #chatbots increases risk of psychosis for some users, raising questions of safety that are not addressed in current "guardrails" relating to #MentalHealth, argues @dralexandrehudon.bsky.social theconversation.com/reports-of-a...

The disruption that generative #AI has brought to #education indicts the dominant "knowledge factory" model and should prompt educators to consider different (even old-school) instruction and assessment practices, argue @danid.bsky.social & Mark Daley theconversation.com/ai-disruptio...

Recent fallout from the "nudifying" feature of #Grok illustrate that, like revenge porn, gov'ts must take regulatory action and hold providers accountable, argues Kyara Liu theconversation.com/grok-fallout... #AI #regulation #MentalHealth

Our #AI overlords aren't here yet but the technology is increasingly used in gov't functions, so we should ensure it is used to enhance democracy rather than to concentrate power, argue @schneier.com & Nathan Sanders www.merionwest.com/are-we-ready... #politics

By identifying candidate drugs faster and speeding up trials, #AI is becoming more integrated into pharmaceutical development www.economist.com/science-and-... #medicine

The era of #AI boosted #phishing attacks, featuring lifelike video, voices, etc., is already upon us and requires changes to #security measures, explains Gaurav Belani cacm.acm.org/opinion/ai-r... #crime

More accurate assessment of the performance of #AI at legal tasks suggests they won't be replacing lawyers just yet, explains Michelle Kim www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1... #law #work

New report: #China's gov't continues to integrate #AI into #police #surveillance and #censorship activities, making them more comprehensive, ubiquitous, and oppressive, explains Jessie Yeung edition.cnn.com/2025/12/04/c...

#OpenAI is launching #ChatGPT Health, which will review medical records uploaded by US ssers, whose #privacy the service will protect, they say, though critics are skeptical, explains @livmcmahon.bsky.social www.msn.com/en-us/techno... #AI #medicine

US gov't claims that ppl who record and post the activities of police in public are "doxing" them, though critics argue that police don't have a right to #privacy when in public doing public business, explains @couts.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/expire... #surveillance #sousveillance

US states like Illinois are banning #AI #chatbots used as for #MentalHealth therapy, though some critics dispute the appropriateness of this measure given the scarcity of trained therapists, explains Logan Kugler cacm.acm.org/news/ai-is-b...

"Chatfishing," use of #chatbots to respond to queries on dating sites, is both a bad sign for a tentative relationship but also a new method of scamming that users should be aware of, explains @bruceylee.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-fu... #AI

Some ppl become cognitively dependent on #chatbots for advice and assistance, to the point of deskilling themselves, a problem both the provider and users are addressing, up to a point, explains Lila Shroff www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... #AI

Some three years after the introduction of #ChatGPT, the tech has changed lives significantly, but we still have to learn how disruptive it truly will be, argues @cwarzel.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... #AI

A database of #AI generated images inadvertently left open by startups consisted almost totally of pornographic material, reinforcing the concern that the tech is mainly geared to sexualization of perhaps non-consenting ppl, explains @mattburgess1.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/huge-t...

Flock uses gig workers overseas to help train its #AI system to track cars, as well as people and their activities—such as screaming—in American #cities, explains @josephcox.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/flock-... #surveillance

#AI therapy via #chatbots shows promise in experimental settings but raises concerns about displacing better services offered with humans and "unhealthy dependency" on fake ones, explains Samuel Greengard cacm.acm.org/news/does-ai... #MentalHealth

New research: Ppl seem to be adopting patterns of speech (and thinking?) often found in #chatbots, raising concerns that they may adopt #bias found in the tech as well, explains Samuel Greengard cacm.acm.org/news/role-re...

Agentic #AI browsers like Comet can now almost entirely automate the process of students taking online courses, so steps need to be taken to salvage education from a tsunami of cheating, argues @marcwatkins.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/can-...

Ppl turn to big-time #chatbots for theraputic discussions b/c they are available and non-judgemental, making it difficult to market specialized therapy bots, which still face limitations in comparison to human therapists, explains Esther Shein cacm.acm.org/news/ais-imp... #AI #MentalHealth

Smart glasses are making a comeback, since they are now actually #AI smart, have broadly useful applications, and are not dorky like Google Glass was, explains Logan Kugler cacm.acm.org/news/the-ris...

Israeli company Stardust says it's developing a #geoengineering scheme based on solar radiation management, in spite of widely held concerns about risks, incentives and governance challenges posed by the idea, explains @jtemple.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/10/1... #sustainability

About 20 years ago, #SocialMedia presented the public with choices similar to those posed by #AI now, which @schneier.com and Nathan Sanders illustrate with four examples for the judiciary, lawmakers, governments, and consumers www.lawfaremedia.org/article/like... #policy

#AI is often used in ways that concentrate political power, but @schneier.com and Nathan E. Sanders discuss four examples of ways in which the technology has been used to further democracy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #politics

Unsurprisingly, generative #AI is poised to disrupt porn, perhaps upending the industry, workers, and creating new risks for blackmail, bullying, etc., that regulators will have to respond to www.economist.com/internationa...

New research: Conversation with chatbots can change of attitudes of potential voters regarding candidates, suggesting that #AI can be a powerful tool of politicking, explain @stevenleemyers.bsky.social & @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w... #politics

Researchers Maura Grossman and Yuntian Deng are helping develop tools for courts to distinguish #AI produced videos from authentic ones, important for trustworthy evidence in legal cases, explains Paola Loriggio www.thestar.com/business/tec...

Sanveer Dhanju "hacked" together an #AI system called "DocMaps" that calls clinics and helps ppl to locate family doctors in Ontario, explains @sadeenmohsen.bsky.social www.thestar.com/news/gta/map... #medicine

AI can benefit employees, organizations and the workplace but, without equitable access to upskilling, reskilling, training, digital resources and AI literacy, the technology can deepen the disparities between social groups, explains Mehnaz Rafi theconversation.com/ai-promises-... #work

A Marxist analysis of the #AI bubble suggests reliance on speculative returns occurs in lieu of production of goods, with risks falling mainly on workers and benefits going flowing mainly to big players, argues Elliot Ugalde theconversation.com/the-ai-bubbl...

Dynamic #pricing is replacing fixed pricing, assigning prices on the fly based on profiling and circumstances, a change that may increase profits but hamper affordability and fairness, argues @bcappelbaum.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o... #AI #BigData #commerce

The Canadian gov't should consider construction of "CanGPT," a gen-AI tool that is publicly operated, like the CBC, which would allow for a service that aligns with the public interest, argues Fenwick McKelvey theconversation.com/could-a-nati... #AI #policy

Volvo and others are working hard on self-driving trucks, causing anxiety over the future of truck driving as a job, explains @camilareads.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/11/24/n... #work

Battling SuperPACS are raising $$ to lobby for—or against—rigorous #regulation of the #AI industry, explains @teddyschleifer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

An #AI resistant English course depends on pen-and-paper + oral testing, teaching the process of writing, and more emphasis on in-class activities (plus it helps if you class is a smaller one), argues Carlo Rotella www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m... #education

Advocacy group Fairplay found that #AI equipped child toy Kumma easily engaged in conversations on inappropriate topics, prompting a recall, explains Mark Walker www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u... #risks

Gen-#AI programs are helping hackers by coding and conducting attacks, even against #AI providers, touching off a #cybersecurity arms race without a clear winner, explains @matteowong.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Give you kid the gift of an #AI toy this season? Providers say they're fun & educational, but critics fear that the unregulated market poses #privacy, #security, and cognitive development concerns, explain @nicireland.bsky.social www.thestar.com/business/con...