Artificial intelligence chatbots need to work on their social judgment, recent events suggest. At one end of the spectrum, they’re facing lawsuits for recommending dangerous actions. At the other end, the models can be so nice they’re considered sycophantic.
The problem could get worse as AI bots work more with humans, such as handling customer complaints, says Yan Leng, assistant professor of information, risk, and operations management at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.
But help may be on the way. In new research, Leng has devised a sort of personality test—more precisely, a behavioral audit —for large language models (LLMs), the technology that drives products such as ChatGPT. The paper is published in the journal Information Systems Research.
Anthropic Co-Founder Chris Olah warned that artificial intelligence could displace human labor “at very large scale” as he addressed the Vatican during the presentation of Pope Leo’s first encyclical on AI. The Anthropic co-founder urged stronger oversight from governments, religious leaders, and civil society, while raising concerns about AI’s growing power, global inequality, and mysterious internal behaviors observed in advanced systems.
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Live from Vatican City: Pope Leo participates in the presentation of his first major encyclical focused on the rise of artificial intelligence, marking a rare break from papal tradition. Real-time coverage of this significant Vatican event with DRM News.
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Matthew Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau, authors of Space to Grow, explain the commercial space economy and the role of NASA, Artemis, commercial space stations, space-based data centers, Starlink, GPS, China’s space program, national security, and space governance.
The conversation covers how governments, private companies, and investors build, fund, regulate, and compete in space, from microgravity research and launch markets to lunar exploration, space resources, and the economics of commercial space.
We also try and re-write the Space Treaty and look at the politics of the space race.
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“The idea, put forward by a California smart utility box company called Span, is to put the GPUs where the power has already been allocated—at the home. Span says the average household uses only about 42% of the electricity allotted to it, and rarely reaches peak usage. Span’s smart utility boxes detect that, and steer the extra available power over to the GPUs, which live inside a ”node” that sits beside the house and looks something like an HVAC unit. The boxes contain 16 Nvidia GPUs, 4 AMD CPUs, 4 terabytes of memory, and a cooling system. When a large number of homes have these, the servers could be connected together in a network and work together on distributed computing jobs (workloads), Span says.
In exchange for hosting a node, Span pays a big chunk of the homeowner’s electricity and broadband internet bills.
And there may even be advantages for putting the compute power closer to the end users that are using the chatbots or AI services, Span says.
It’s a cool idea on paper, but it’s almost completely unproven in real-world use. Span has been prototyping the units but has yet to install any of them beside real homes. I asked Span VP Chris Lander if his company has done technical studies showing that its brand of distributed computing will be fast and robust enough to handle real AI workloads. ‘We’ve done a bunch of technical studies internally [and] a bunch of modeling for different kinds of workloads, both from the business point of view [and] the product point of view and from the technical architecture point of view,’ he replies.
The idea of asking homeowners to host boxes full of GPUs is a symptom of the woeful dearth of data center space needed for AI computing.
In this video, Geoffrey Hinton (the “Godfather of AI”) explains why we may not be able to slow it down, what happens to jobs, and why the future could be very different from what we expect.
If this video helped you understand AI a bit better and you’d like to support the channel, I’d really appreciate it: 👉 https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/ML… job displacement to loss of control and growing inequality, this is a clear look at where AI is heading. — 🎥 Resources related to this topic: 🤖 AI Voice & Tools (ElevenLabs): https://try.elevenlabs.io/dw64rd295juq #ad 📚 Want to understand where AI is going? 👉 “Not Insects: The Life of Geoffrey Hinton” – Paul D. Johnson: https://amzn.to/4eYKYrm #ad — ⏱️ Video Chapters: 00:00 AI Can’t Be Slowed Down 00:40 AI and Job Loss Explained 01:45 AI Will Replace Most Jobs 03:10 AI Replaces Human Intelligence 04:05 The Control Problem 05:10 Real AI in Action (Agents) 06:10 The Future of Work 06:50 Why This Is Hard to Accept — 📚 Recommended reading on AI: 👉 “How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed” – Ray Kurzweil: https://amzn.to/3R3oMlV #ad 👉 “Scary Smart” – Mo Gawdat: https://amzn.to/4b8n9v0 #ad 👉 “Co-Intelligence” – Ethan Mollick: https://amzn.to/4bmUe57 #ad — 🧠 About this channel: Synth Insights highlights the most important ideas from leading voices in AI — breaking them down into clear, practical insights you can actually understand and use. The goal is simple: help you stay ahead of what’s coming. — (As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. This description may contain affiliate links, which means I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.) #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GeoffreyHinton #FutureOfAI #AGI
From job displacement to loss of control and growing inequality, this is a clear look at where AI is heading.
Researchers at the University of Toronto have identified a protein from the quagga mussel that can stick to surfaces underwater, even though it lacks a chemical feature long thought to be essential for this kind of adhesion. The protein, called Dbfp7, is the first freshwater mussel adhesive protein to be functionally characterized.
The finding, published in PNAS, helps explain how some organisms attach themselves in wet environments and could inform the design of future medical glues—such as medical sealants and surgical adhesives—or other materials that need to work reliably in water.
Most studies of underwater adhesion have focused on marine mussels, which use proteins rich in a modified amino acid called 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA) to bond to surfaces. Freshwater species have been studied less, and whether they rely on the same chemistry has not been clear.
This week, Laurie Segall sits down exclusively with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for his first interview since shutting down the Disney-partnered Sora and making the Department of War deal. From power to parenthood, tech addiction and AI acceleration, Laurie interviews Altman about AI’s human impact and the weight of OpenAI’s influence. In a wide ranging interview, Altman describes a near-term future where automated AI researchers could compress a decade of scientific discovery into a single year, fundamentally reshaping society and an era of AI abundance, where solo-founders can build billion-dollar companies with AI agents. But that innovation sits against a complex backdrop with fundamental human questions at stake. Altman addresses concerns over AI-related job loss and reveals what he thinks are AI-proof jobs. Altman, who is also a father, discusses parenting in the age of AI, when he plans to introduce his own product to his child, and how he believes AI could benefit kids in the long run. This is a conversation with Sam Altman you’re not going to hear anywhere else, where the tech titan answers some fundamental questions about control, innovation, consequences, and the world we’ll leave behind for our children.
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